Well I haven't forgot you all I have just been very busy getting Miss Le Coiffures quilt finished for Christmas.
All I have to do today is sew on the binding then I can sit tonight and hand sew it down.
Here is it as I have left it, after Christmas when Miss Le Coiffure has seen it I will post pictures showing you all the details.
Also for little Layla "Sweet Pea" I have already made 2 Santa stockings one for her house and one for Nanas house it feels strange saying that, I have gone from being a Mum to a Nana.
So I have been working on her Santa Sack, which I will finish after I have posted this.
Isn't it cute for a little cutie.
Ice cream
Now what have I been up to ths morning some gentle beating using the electric mixer and some stress relieving using my marble rolling pin on some candy canes.
The end result vanilla ice cream, coffee ice cream and my christmas favourite candy cane ice cream. It is divine with its peppermint flavour and pieces of candy cane.
I must admit it is a very easy recipe
Ice cream recipe
1 x 600 ml bottle of cream & 1 1/4 cups icing sugar beaten to soft peaks.
This year I divided it in half and flavoured one half with vanilla not essence or extract but the actual seeds and the other half I mixed in broken candy canes.
That is were the gentle stress relieving bashing of candy canes comes in, because you want some pieces but also the fine dust which will flavour the ice cream.
Then comes the coffee ice cream. Now normally I make the ice cream above and add coffee flavour and crushed chocolate coated coffee beans, but as I have been so busy I haven't been looking for the coffee beans.
I fell upon the recipe I used on the internet yesterday , it is from Nigella's new show Nigellissima and is dead easy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/one-step_no-churn_coffee_88525
If mixed the coffee and liquor in the bottom of the bowl while I measured the other ingredients. This gave the coffee time to dissolve.
Coffee ice cream
300 mls Cream, 175 grams condensed milk, 2 tbsps instant expresso coffee powder & 2 tbsps coffee liquor - I used tia Maria
Mix coffee & liquor together in your mixing bowl, add cream & condensed milk. Beat till very soft peaks form it took about 3 minutes in my mixer, stop scrap down sides keep beating till soft peaks form. Place into a sealable container a freeze 6 hours or overnight.
Well if I don't get a chance to post again before Christmas from the CLI family we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a safe New Year.
