Sweet gifts

Trułtles are everycne‘s favourite at Christmas. Here are some tor you tc make and give as presents. Pack them in egg boxes which you have decorated with a bit ot tinsel!

2. Break up the chocolałe and melt It in a microwave oven in a suitable bowl, or in a

You’11 need:

150 g plain dark chocolałe 25 g butter

100 g shortbread biscuiłs

1 tablespoon orange juice

1 egg whiłe

Vi teaspoon ground

cinnamon

25 g caster sugar

Chocolałe vermicelli

1. Crush the biscuits by puttmg them into a polythene bag and rolling firmly over them with a rolling pin.

heatproof bowl over a pan of hot water on the stove.

3. Stir in the butter and when it has melted add the crushed biscuits and orange juice. Mix it ail well together.

4. Form it into smali bdlls. dusfmg your tingers with icmg sugar ił it seems stlcky.

5. Mix the caster sugar and ground cinnamon in a dish and put some chocolałe vermicelli in another. Point egg white on to each truttle and roli half of them In '/ermicelli. half in the sugar mixture. Leave to dry for several hours buf then pack and give them to a friend with instruclions to eat them up within two weeks.

Bet they will!