Sneak Peek! Homes For The Holidays | A Vacation Wreath + Chocolate Almond Batons
Monday 21 November 2016
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Today we're thrilled to portion alongside you lot a sneak peek of the twelfth annual Meet the Kids Help Phone – Homes for the Holidays 2016. The consequence which happens this coming weekend (November 26 together with 27/16) hither inwards Vancouver is a seasonal self-guided domicile tour together with fundraiser where v local domicile owners, designers, retail stores, florists, together with countless volunteers come upwards together to practise beautiful vacation decorated homes to attention inspire attendees to practise their ain vacation magic. The proceeds practise goodness the Kids Help Phone Line. All photos yesteryear Janis Nicolay.
We accept 3 sneak peeks to portion alongside you lot courtesy of lensman Janis Nicolay. To kicking things off we're featuring a few behind the scenes from designer Francesca Albertazzi and Emma Kelly. The topic of their domicile is "Enchanted Holiday Delight". Francesca together with Emma accept collaborated alongside Rosie Daykin of Butter Baked Goods offering upwards a delicious recipe of Chocolate Almond Batons (see below) along alongside Full Bloom for a beautiful Holiday Wreath stance (also below).
Stay tuned for to a greater extent than sneak peeks this calendar week from Home for the Holidays, together with for to a greater extent than data on where together with when you lot tin forcefulness out run across these homes, click here for tickets together with details.
Chocolate Almond Batons
yesteryear Butter Baked Goods
Makes: Approximately ii dozen. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
1/2 loving cup butter, room temperature
3/4 loving cup icing sugar
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1 1/2 loving cup all operate flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 loving cup almonds, finely chopped
ii cups chocolate chips
1 tablespoon butter
Instructions afterwards the jump!
In a stand upwards mixer fitted alongside a paddle attachment, cream the butter together with saccharide on medium speed until lite together with fluffy. Scrape downwards the sides of the bowl. Add the egg together with shell to combine. Scrape downwards the sides of the bowl, add together the vanilla together with almond extract together with shell again. With the mixer running on low, slow add together the flour, baking pulverisation together with tabular array salt together with shell until combined.
Remove the dough from the mixer together with cast into a log. Cut the dough into 24 fifty-fifty pieces together with
curlicue each slice into a petty log closed to 1/2” broad together with 3” long. Place each cookie onto the prepared cookie sheets well-nigh 1/2” apart. Bake the cookies inwards the preheated oven for closed to 10 to 12 minutes or until they are delineate of piece of occupation solid to the affect together with lightly golden chocolate-brown on the bottom.
Remove the cookies from the oven together with allow them to cool slightly earlier transferring them to to a cooling rack to cool completely.
In a double boiler or a pocket-sized pot placed over boiling water, melt the chocolate chips together with butter. Dip each cease of a cookie inwards melted chocolate together with and thus the chopped almonds. Place the finished cookies on a slice of parchment until the chocolate has set.
DIY Holiday Wreath
yesteryear Full Bloom
We're loving these vacation wreath ideas using a collection of traditional together with untraditional flowers together with greenery. Orchids, cedar, lavendar, orchids, cotton fiber together with vacation greenery —the heaven is the limit. Check out all the ideas below!
