Christmas Lollies
 

Do you make them?

What sort?

Got any great recipies to share?

I made chocolate fudge and white christmas yesterday, along with the christmas cake. Today I made coconut ice.

Soon I'll make the rum balls...Mmmmm...rum ballllssssss....

Christmas lollies? Never heard of 'em. They do sound nice though!

Never heard of Christmas lollies? OMG!!! What planet have you been living on Dana??? lol

when I was little - actually right up till she passed away - my Mum used to make what we called Christmas Lollies. Mostly consisting of the things I mentioned in my first post, but also chocolate treats and other christmas trimmings for the table and to offer the inveritable unexpected guests who always call in at this time of year.

Planet Brit! That sounds like a fabulous tradition.

It's fabulous in every way except that now I'm the one who makes the lollies, and my waistline suffers. ;)

hahahah

Are rum balls anything like rum-babas? Or is it something that afflicts Ozzie men....

rum balls are dried fruit and biscuit crumbs and condensed milk (and rum) and coconut all mixed up together, then rolled into little balls, then rolled in more coconut.

Very delicious...specially with lots of rum. ;)

eeeegh! condensed milk! The rest I can live with, but ..... condensed milk...

urgh... just urgh

Well it's very yummy in this recipie Jay. If you like sweets, and you like chocolate and you like rum, you're almost guaranteed to like this one. Oh, I forgot to say it's got cocoa in it also.

wow...... that sounds incredibly rich.

and, oh yes, I do like rum...... (raises glass of rum'n'coke to toast ali) ... how else d'ya think I can cope with this board?

We only made Christmas cookies -- except for that one year Mom made those incredible fruitcakes. I never understood why fruitcake was dissed so much until I had a taste of commercial fruitcake.

In any case, we never made fudge, and I don't even know what White Christmas is. What is it?

Rumballs are very rich Jay. Almost an aphrodesiac in my books. ;)

White Christmas is mostly rice bubbles, with mixed dried fruit, glace cherries, icing sugar and coconut, all melded together with copha (I think you have a different name for that in the US).

I put it in patty pans (little cupcake papers) and the kids really love it.

mmmm..... checks lastminute.com for cheap flights to Oz.....

This year I made my fruitcake with bourbon and tia maria because I didn't have any rum in the house. There was some of the cake batter left over so I made 'muffins' out of it.

It hasn't lost anything because of the bourbon. ;) It's very good. :)

That's the second time you've made me laugh today Jay. lol

twice a night is more than enough for me.......

lol...old fart! There's the third. Bet you didn't know you had it in you. ;)

I can't believe no one else on this site makes their own christmas lollies.

What about french jellies or...or...anything???...

This year I'm going to try something new.

I'm going to get some lychees and take the seeds out, then I'm going to fill the cavity with crystalised ginger and then coat them in chocolate.

I have a feeling this has probably been done before, but not by me! :)

Let's see...

Christmas Lollies. nope. don't even know what that is. Won't be making it.

French Jellies. Uhh... Don't know what that is either. won't be making it.

lychees. wtf? never heard of that either. You don't mean leeches, do you? Won't be making that.

crystalised ginger is something that I can sort of picture. Is that slices of ginger root soaked in sugar water or something similar and coated with sugar? I can at least picture that. It even sounds familiar, like maybe I had it before. But won't be making it.

Chocolate. Now we're talking. Might make some fudge this year.

We mostly make various cookies. We also make a kind of curried nut dish, which is outstanding.

I've had lychee fruit before, but I've never understood the appeal. I don't like honeydew melon either.

Lychees are wonderful. I love em. When I was a kid, you could only get tinned lychees in certain foreign delis. Nowadays you can get fresh lychees from the supermarket at certain times of the year. With air miles to food ratios, that may be a bad thing.....but they are very tasty:P

I had Lychee's and Rambutan when in Sumatra and Thailand. Good stuff.

I get lychees from the market - didn't stop to think about the carbon count :redface:

I only really like finger fruit (I even slice apples rather than bite into them) so lychees are great for me. I can eat figs & lychees until they give me problems, if you get what I mean! I don't like melon, but I'll be back on it for lunch in the new year - cubed of course. Anything with a lot of water in fills me up, and at least with melon I'm not tempted to eat too much of it.

Christmas Lollipops? Nope, an Aussie thing maybe? Although I love the idea of a fruitcake laced with Tia Maria & Bourbon. Or is that just a description of myself?

LoL, me too. I had a nasty experience as a child, involving an apple, half a maggot and a seemingly unconcerned Dad, who characterised it as highly nutritious:P

I also like the sound of the fruitcake with tia maria and bourbon.....but with slightly less cake.

OK...here's a pic of the cake! I just finished it this morning. I'm very proud of my efforts here.

We did the rumballs last night. They're very delicious. :D

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That's great!

It's beautiful, Ali. For St. Nick's day?

Yeah...the kids wanted to cut it up last night and it wasn't even finished.

I think they just like the icing. lol

Pretty! Is everything edible except for the sticks and the tartan?

Yeah...although you probably shouldn't eat the silver and gold stars. The powder is apparently not too good for you. ;)

Edit: Oh, and the little christmas trees are made out of tinsel, so probably shouldn't eat those either.

eating silver and gold stars isn't good for you? well i'll be damned.

Well you probably could get away with it. Everyone needs a little starlight in their lives after all. ;)