Okay, so you've done your best to keep the peace in your family during this crazy holiday season. You've played LEGO with your little cousin, you've reprogrammed all of your Grandma's electronics and vanquished the flashing 12:00 of doom and now it's not for some "you" time. It's Christmas Day and you've managed to lock yourself in a closet with the tv to watch the Doctor Who Christmas Special. It's time for a bit of a treat.
The Sonic Screwdriver
Makes 6 – PREP 5 mins plus chilling – NO COOK -Easy
Ingredients
3 cups orange juice
3 ripe peaches, peeled, stoned and pureed
4-5 cups lemonade
few mint leaves
few handfuls ice
Directions
1. Chill the juices, peach puree and lemonade for at least 1-2 hrs before serving.
2. Divide ice and mint leaves between glasses. Mix the juice and puree together and pour over the ice. Carefully top with the lemonade.
Mini Chocolate Dalek Cakes
Makes 6 – PREP 35 mins – COOK 20-25 mins – Moderately easy
Ingredients
1 stick of butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
1 cup light brown soft sugar
2 large eggs
1 cup self-raising flour
½ cup ground almonds
1⁄2 tsp baking soda
5 tbsp cocoa, plus a little extra for decorating
½ cup milk
To Decorate
4oz bar dark chocolate, chopped
4oz bar milk chocolate, chopped
1 cup heavy cream
6 marshmallows
1 – 2 cups chocolate drops
few thin sticks licorice or Japanese chocolate pocky sticks
Directions
1. Heat oven to 350F. Grease and line the bases of 6 dariole moulds or individual metal pudding basins with baking parchment or grease-proof paper. Put the butter, sugar, egg, flour, ground almonds, bicarbonate, cocoa and milk in a mixing bowl. Beat together until lump-free. Divide between the tins then bake for 20-25 minutes until risen and a skewer poked in comes out clean. Cool for 15 minutes, then remove from tins and cool completely – upside-down.
2. Mix the two chocolates in a heatproof bowl. Heat the cream to just below boiling point, then pour over the chocolate and stir together until melted and smooth. Chill until thick enough to spread.
3. Use a small dot icing to stick a marshmallow to the top of each cake. Completely ice all the marshmallow-topped cakes. Dot with chocolate drops to look like the outside of a dalek, and add small sticks of licorice or pocky sticks to be the guns, arms and eye-sticks.
Special thanks to the BBC America website for these recipes! Find more here: http://www.bbcamerica.com/doctor-who/photos/doctor-who-dish/#4088
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