After years and years of spending Christmas in Korea, this year I shall be going home for Christmas. But with that comes a whole host of questions of what I would like for Christmas. We will be spending the day with my family, then heading over to Ireland to spend some time with Niall’s family. Obviously my own friends and family know me well and what I might like but with in-laws it’s really hard not to know what to get. To make things easier, Niall and I decided to make wish lists on Amazon with lots of little things we both liked to help make present buying a lot easier. I have really taken to this making a wish list thing, so much so I thought I would make a fat girls wish list. This is a collection of lovely things I would love to own one day. Obviously Le Creuset pans and Cath Kidston dishes are probably a bit beyond my means at the moment, but there are lots of lovely thing like ingredients and bake-ware that I could afford but never seem to buy. I figured I would share it with all my lovely readers, since it is the season of giving and perhaps some of you are rich, generous or want to buy your favourite food blogger a lovely present (wink,wink). So here is my list of lovely things if you would like to check it out. Happy Christmas shopping everyone! #buymepresentsplease.

This was a cute little post I was hoping to bring to you before Valentines Day. Sadly for you I am very lazy and spent all my time eating and looking at Pinterest instead of writing, luckily I’m just in time for White Day! (For those not in South Korea, White Day is celebrated on March 14 where men give the women they love chocolate. I am obviously a big fan). However truffles aren’t just for Valentine’s Day, they’re for life. So make these babies up any day you feel like it. I got my box at Daiso for 1,000, they had quite the variety. These will make such a cute gift for a friend’s birthday, and it’s always nice to have something a little bit thoughtful or home-made.

Ingredients

200g couverture white chocolate (I got mine at the bakers mart)

2 tablespoons of butter

150ml of cream

150g of crushed or ground almonds

Directions

Melt the chocolate and butter in a metal or glass bowl over a pot of simmering water. Be very careful to make sure that you don’t get any water into the chocolate mixture. Once the chocolate and butter have melted together, stir in the cream. Mix together thoroughly then put in the fridge to set for a few hours. Once the mixture has set, take a teaspoonful and roll it into a ball in your hands. Roll the truffle into the crushed almonds and put on a tray. Repeat until all your truffles are made.

Pop them back in the fridge for another 30 minutes just to let them reset. Pop them into your lovely gift box, or if you are greedy like me, devour them immediately. Voilà easy home-made white chocolate truffles.