Day 4: DIY Rouldoph Biscuits

This cute as pie DIY Christmas gift is one that my Mum stumbled across in a magazine (thanks Mum, you're always giving me the best blog post ideas) and decided we would make this year. I thought I would share the idea with you because it's just so gosh darn adorable and yummy too! 

Ingredients:
- 1 Packet of Butternut Biscuits 
- 48 White Mini Marshmallows
- 12 Large White Marshmallows  
- 24 Jaffas (the orange chocolates) 
- A Small Packet of Pretzels 
- A Tube of Red or White Icing 
- A Tube of Black Icing
- 200g Milk Chocolate 
- 1/3 cup of Cream
- 75g of Butter

Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and lay each biscuit over a space in a tartlet pan. Each biscuit should be suspended over the space so that once they have been put into the oven for three minutes, they can be quickly pressed into the mould to make a cup shape. Leave these biscuit cups to cool. 

2. Place the broken up chocolate, chopped up butter and cream in a pan over a low heat. Stir continuously until it is all melted together than leave to cool to room temperature. 

3. Once both the biscuits and chocolate mixture are room temperature, spoon around 1tbsp (or how much it will hold) of the chocolate mixture into each of the cups. Put them into the fridge for around half an hour to harden. 

4. While the cups are cooling, cut each of the large marshmallows in half. Do the same with the pretzels so that they slightly resemble antlers, this will probably lead to you breaking and then eating a lot of pretzels before you get enough good ones. 

5. When the biscuits are hardened, take them out of the fridge and get on with the fun bit. I think the pictures above show this better than I could explain in print so I'll just say that the red Jaffa nose was stuck on with the red icing and the pupils of the eyes were the black icing. 

Such a simple but fun Christmas treat! It would also be a really fun thing to make with kids if you have any of them running around. 

Lots of Love, 

Shannon