The Melt Crowd - December 2016 ❤

Hey everyone😀 Back again with another Flamingo Candles Melt Crowd box! This one is definitely my most favourite box! Hope you enjoy💙

Sherry Trifle  

This smells just soooo fruity and cakey with a hint of booze, this is a perfect scent for anytime of the year especially for relaxing😍!

Cinnamon Buns

This literally makes your house smell like you're baking cinnamon buns! It's a sweet yet spicy scent that definitely smells good enough to eat😜

Gingerbread

This smells exactly how you'd imagine it - like a freshly baked gingerbread man! It has a slight hint of vanilla too which doesn't make the ginger scent too overpowering. 

Chocolate Orange

Think Terry's Chocolate Orange and you'll know exactly how this smells. I was a bit scared that this would be too sickly and strong but it isn't at all - it smells like you've just melted a chocolate orange when you melt this wax🍫

White Lilac & Rhubarb

This scent is lovely, it has a nice floral base with a hint of rhubarb, I've been obsessed with the Rhubarb & Pear scent melt i got last month and anything else rhubarb scented, so this is a nice change - this would be a perfect spring scent🌸

Christmas Tree Gin

This is probably my most ideal scent combo! I love Gin and absolutely love all things Christmas - especially the smell of a real Christmas tree! This smells like pine with a hint of citrus, amaaaazing for burning on Christmas day🎄

Bah! Humbug

I actually have this burning as i'm writing this, it's my new addiction. It smells exactly like a peppermint humbug sweetie or a peppermint candy cane. Mint is one of my most favourite candle scents so i can see me buying a lot more of these🍬

Mulled Wine & Berries

This makes me want to go to the Christmas markets with cosy scarves and gloves on for some mulled wine💜 It's quite a fruity scent with a hint of spice like cinnamon! Very Christmassy!

In this box i also got the cutest little pink tree decoration, it's the one in the top left of the pictures, i'm actually going to hang it in my car💗! This was honestly my favourite box I've had yet! Get onto flamingocandles.co.uk to give some of them a go, why not even sign up to The Melt Crowd while you're there? It's only £10 a month and you get a free wax burner with your first box!

Hope you enjoyed, Ashley💙

Homemade Pop Tarts ❤

Hey everyone! I'm finally back with another post, this time it's delicious homemade pop tarts! I woke up one day really wanting a pop tart but didn't have any so decided to make some😋!

You will need;

280g Plain Flour

225g Butter

2 tablespoons Caster Sugar

1/2 teaspoon Salt

5 tablespoons Water

1 teaspoon Vanilla

1 Egg

3 tablespoons Cocoa Powder (leave out when making strawberry pop tarts)

(for the filling)

Jam or Melted Chocolate/Nutella

(for the icing)

230g Icing Sugar

3 Tablespoons milk or water, add more if needed

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

(for chocolate pop tarts use vanilla icing then marble melted chocolate into the icing)

In a bowl add the flour, sugar, salt and cocoa powder (leave out for jam pop tarts) mix together well then add in the butter.

Rub the butter into the dry ingredients until it resembles breadcrumbs then add in your water. Knead all your ingredients into a dough then roll it into a ball.

Once you have your dough, pop it into the fridge for 1 hour. Once your hour is up, preheat your oven to 180°c (fan assisted oven)/200°c. 

Roll out your dough into a rectangle shape to about 2cm thickness

Cut your dough into 6 smaller equal rectangles, this will give you 3 pop tarts!

Use 1 tablespoon of jam (or whichever filling you chose) for each pop tart, spread it over the middle but don't go too close to the edges.

Add another rectangle on top of each, press down the edges with a fork to create a seal and lightly poke holes down the middle. Beat your egg and give all your pop tarts a light egg wash. Bake them in your preheated oven for 20-30 minutes until golden brown😍.

Whilst waiting on your pop tarts to cool, make your icing. Add in your icing sugar, vanilla and 3 tablespoons of milk/water, if needed add more liquid.

Once your pop tarts are cool, it's time to decorate! I used 1 tablespoon of icing for each, then marbled some melted chocolate for the chocolate pop tarts, i then decorated with chocolate covered honeycomb and freeze dried raspberries🍫.

 These taste amazing and are actually quite easy to make! Give them a go and let me see if you do😀! Ashley 💜