Festive baking

1. Made 2 kinds of cookies to give out: butter and chocolate chip as well as ginger snaps (of which I named them cinnamon and ginger!)
2. Instagram picture of my ginger snap from a friend! (Am glad people liked it!)
3. My mum made pancakes while I made french toast on Christmas morning!
4. Made Oreo cheesecake for a friend's 21st! (Am also glad that people raved and loved it haha. Some even wanted to pay me to make for them... flattered!)

All in all, everything was a success! Although I didn't like the butter and chocolate chip cookies because it was a bit too dry. Don't think I'll use that recipe again.... because I'm too lazy to edit and adjust the ingredients haha. Hope you've had an awesome Christmas! It isn't exactly over for me yet....!

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Christmas mixtape

 christmas mix 2012 from littlexny on 8tracks Radio.

1. All I Want For Christmas (not the mariah carey version!) by Stephan Jerzak 
2. When We Say (A Juicebox Christmas) by AJ Rafael ft Andrew de Torres
3. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by Glee Cast
4. Jingle Bell Rock by Tanner Patrick
5. Let It Snow by Glee Cast
6. Baby, It's Cold Outside by Colbie Caillat Feat. Gavin De Graw
7. Holiday Medley! by Victoria Justice & Max Schneider
8. Right Where You Want Me To Be by A Day To Remember

 
My tunes for the holidays! I'm pretty flexible with my genres, and the last song is from my favourite band! 10 more days to Christmas guise!!

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hot chocolate

So a few days back I was craving hot chocolate. It's awfully comforting in the rainy season! So I made some! Here are 2 recipes, of which I'd prefer the latter but the first is rather convenient. Adding marshmallows is optional.... but always better. Teehee.

Recipe 1
The back of my Hershey's Chocolate Flavoured Syrup bottle says 2 tablespoons with 4oz of milk. But I doubled the recipe so....... here's it.

Ingredients:
4 tbsp Hershey's Chocolate Flavoured Syrup
1/2 tbsp sugar
1 cup milk

Directions:
Heat the milk in the microwave at high for ~2 minutes or until hot. Stir in the syrup tablespoon by tablespoon. Add sugar. Add marshmallows.

Recipe 2
Adapted from Hershey's "PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE" Hot Cocoa 

Ingredients:

2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp HERSHEY'S Cocoa (powder)
Dash salt

1 cup milk
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
 

Directions:
Mix sugar, cocoa and salt in large mug. Heat milk in microwave at high for ~2 minutes or until hot. Gradually add hot milk to cocoa mixture in mug, stirring until well blended. Stir in vanilla. Marshmallows.

Enjoy with some cuddling and chick flicks. And Christmas tunes!
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