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Alphabakes - December 2015


Are you feeling Christmassy yet? I don't know about you but I always seem to do more baking around Christmas time, as I'm making edible gifts for friends, and there are some things that just seem right to make at this time of year. Last year I made mince pies, chocolate orange trifle, vegan tiramisu, Viennese apple strudel, chocolate truffles, eggnog cheesecake, candy cane chocolate hearts, peppermint bark and so much more. Hopefully you already have one or two things in mind which will fit with this month's letter, chosen at random...

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Now, while nuts are pretty festive, Ros and I have decided that this time N can stand for Noel as well, so you can enter any Christmas bakes, regardless of the name or ingredients - but please no more than TWO 'Christmas without an N' recipes, and of course as many proper 'N' posts as you like! Otherwise we will just get swamped with Christmas related stuff I think...
 
There's also not much point ending the linkup on the 25th as we often do, so you have until the 27th December this time. As always, please enter via the linkup below and if you tweet us @Caroline_Makes and @bakingaddict we will retweet all the ones we see. By entering you give us permission to use one of the photos from your blog post in the linkup.
 
Have fun and a happy festive season!
 
 
 

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