Christmas Buns

This weekend, P. invested in an incredibly fancy DSLR that he has been saving up for since the dawn of time. In the end, it was the Nikon D7000 he went for. I’d been fairly non-committal to any camera purchase. He’s been going on about getting a fancy camera for months, most of which I spent unemployed so the concept of spending so much on something so small was a bit, ugh, when we were basically living off knäckebröd and cheese.

Now I’m employed and can contribute to the running of the household, I’m happy he can finally spend his hard earned, hard saved up money on something he really wanted. For I shall be saving up my hard earned money for a beautiful MacBook Pro… Living on a teacher’s wage means it’ll probably be a good while before I can afford a MacBook so I’ll stick to more teacher-suitable hobbies. Baking. Then using P.’s camera to take photos of my handy work. In HD.

So ladies and gentlemen, I give you my very own recipe for Christmas Buns:

Ingredients:

125g butter

3 dl sugar

4 eggs

zest of 1/2 orange

4dl plain flour

1 dl Graham flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 dl raisins*

1 dl yellow sultanas*

1/2 dl mixed peel*

(*can substitute these out for just raisins)

1 tsp ground ginger

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 mixed spice

1/4 tsp ground cloves

small block of white chocolate, chopped.

Directions:

- mix flour, baking powder, spices, zest, chocolate and dried fruits in a bowl.

- whisk the sugar and butter until fluffy.

- slowly add the eggs (I always pre-beat them in a bid to minimise curdling)

- fold in the flour and fruit mix

- blob the mixture into a baking tray

- bake on 180 C for around 20 – 30 minutes/until skewer comes out clean.

ta da! The muffin tops just totally exploded over the cases but who cares? It’s like you get a free cookie on top of the cake!

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