Eden Project's Christmas Blogs
Christmas recipe #9: cucidati (Italian fig biscuits)
This year we’re publishing a series of Christmas recipes for the delicious biscuits and cakes that we’re serving up in the Eden Bakery over the festive period for our Time of Gifts winter festival. Ingredients Makes 30 250g dried figs 75g sultanas 1 1/4 teaspoons orange zest 125g chopped walnuts 125ml honey 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon [...]
Biome-inspired Christmas chocolates
We’ve taken a Jamie Oliver recipe and ‘remixed’ it with inspiration from some of the delicious plants we’ve got growing in our Biomes to cook up these tasty chocolate treats: sugar, coffee and cacao grow in our Rainforest Biome chillis, oranges and mint grow in our Mediterranean Biome. These chocolates are great Christmas-time treats as they [...]
Christmas recipe #8: chocolate orange mince pies
This year we’re publishing a series of Christmas recipes for the delicious biscuits and cakes that we’re serving up in the Eden Bakery over the festive period for our Time of Gifts winter festival. Ingredients Makes 6 280g plain flour 125g icing sugar 50g cocoa powder 5g salt 200g butter 2 eggs 500g mincemeat 50g orange [...]
Christmas recipe #7: dark chocolate and mincemeat cupcakes
This year we’re publishing a series of Christmas recipes for the delicious biscuits and cakes that we’re serving up in the Eden Bakery over the festive period for our Time of Gifts winter festival. Ingredients Makes 30 cupcakes 800g self raising flour 400g caster sugar 400ml sunflower oil 10g baking powder 300ml milk 4 eggs 400g [...]
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How to make a Christmas wreath with willow
Why not be brave this year and make a Christmas wreath from scratch, using willow? You can either hang it on the door or use the wreath as a table decoration with candles in the middle. What you need About 30 stems of willow and/or dogwood, with a mixture of colours and thicknesses Items to [...]
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Local history inspires Cornish schoolchildren’s Christmas tree decorations
If you come to Eden this winter you’ll spot some beautiful, weird and wacky Christmas tree decorations as you approach the Visitor Centre. Giant chicken pies with Barbie Doll legs, recycled vintage books, shakeable snow globe baubles… They’ve been designed and created by Cornish schoolchildren who have been working with artists and older residents in [...]
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Make your own ‘Family Hexagon’ biscuit selection box this Christmas
Make a tasty and unique gift with our ‘Family Hexagon’ selection box of delicious biscuits. Over the past few weeks we’ve been publishing recipes of the Christmas biscuits we’re serving at the Eden Project this winter. Now you can use a selection of these recipes to fill up a box – made by hand, of [...]
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Christmas recipe #6: cranberry and pistachio biscotti
This year we’re publishing a series of Christmas recipes for the delicious biscuits and cakes that we’re serving up in the Eden Bakery over the festive period for our Time of Gifts winter festival. The sixth recipe in our series is a Christmas take on the classic Italian biscotti – perfect with a capuccino! We’ve made [...]
Bake your own vegetable garden cake
As it’s been raining cats and dogs recently, we’ve been busy staying in and baking. Keen to share our sweet treats, we proudly brought this allotment cake into the Eden office, where it wasn’t very long before a hungry mob of horticulturists came over to closely inspect the quality of our carrots, tomatoes and peas! [...]
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Christmas recipe #5: Viennese whirls
This year we’re publishing a series of Christmas recipes for the delicious biscuits and cakes that we’re serving up in the Eden Bakery over the festive period for our Time of Gifts winter festival. Ingredients Makes 8 250g soft butter 50g icing sugar 250g plain flour 50g cornflour 2g pure vanilla extract For the filling 100g [...]
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