Christmas Baking for the Slack Mummy’s Club
Slack Mummies haven’t spent much time in their kitchens lately but sooner or later Christmas will catch up with them and they’ll have to make a bit of an effort. I am sure they would rather drop into Nosh or Farro Fresh and buy up some Christmas goodies to brazenly pass off as their own.But if funds don’t stretch to such luxurious deviousness they may find themselves back in the kitchen.
Here are some quick recipes which will allow them to spend most of the afternoon slothfully sipping a glass of wine and still turn out some sumptuous treats for other slack Mummies and their offspring.
Christmas Mini Mincemeat Pies
First the ingredients ( This does involve a drive to the supermarket )
1 packet of Edmond’s short sweet pastry ( which consists of 4 sheets layered between blue plastic)
1 jar of Anathoth Berry Fruit Mince ( Don’t even think about buying your own, it’s instantly delicious)
Leave the pastry sheets to defrost very briefly so they are pliable. Prise them apart and lay each one out on its little blue sheet when cutting out.This will save cleaning the bench afterwards.
For the mince tarts : Use a fluted cutter to cut pastry circles which will fit into greased mini muffin tins. There will be enough for 24.
Fill each one with a generous teaspoon of Anathoth Berry Fruit Mince.
Cut out some little star shapes to sit on top of the pies.
Bake the mince pies in a 200 C degree oven for about 12 minutes ( check after 10, you don’t want burnt edges)
Once out of the oven sieve generously with icng sugar.
And they’re done.
For the Cookies:
Use Christmassy cutters ( stars, trees bells and angels) to cut shapes out of the rest of the pastry sheets. Lay these onto an oven tray lined with baking paper and bake for about 10 minutes at 200 degrees C until a light golden brown. Kids will happily help with this but it’s less of an effort if you do it yourself and pop them in front of the TV or send them outside.
Other Mummies would lovingly decorate these cookies with icing and add some festive sprinkles. But Slack Mummies would never get round to this. In any case too much icing might send all the kids into a sugar rush and then they’d have to chase after them.
The slackiest of the slack Mummies might be tempted to simply open a packet of chips for afternoon tea but I suspect this would not go down too well. When all’s said and done Slack Mummies do have some style and a residual hostessing instinct.
They will probably leave the dishes in the sink till later while they sneak off to their computers to have some personal time out to write their blog at
http://slackmummyclub.com/