This week I went to the Rotary Christmas Dinner – it was a lovely Christmas meal with my host St. Nicholas Rotary Club. A night filled with good food, Christmas Trivia Quizzes, Raffles, and Singing Carols!
A Christmas favorite here in Scotland is the ‘Christmas Cracker’ – a tube/cylinder that looks like a big ‘Tootsie Roll’ with the ends like a candy wrapper. The ‘Christmas Cracker’ is hollow inside and filled with little Christmas presents, a Christmas crown – made of tissue paper, and cheesy Christmas jokes! ‘Christmas Crackers’ are made of a cardboard like material and decorated in all types of Christmas colors and designs – green, red, gold, silver…snowflakes, snowmen, ornaments. You can open the ‘Christmas Cracker’ by pulling both ends and ‘popping’ the ‘Christmas Cracker’ like a confetti popper!
All of the Rotarians and their wives wore the tissue paper Christmas crowns as we enjoyed the evening. At the end of the dinner and Christmas festivities, there was a raffle and I won a tin full of Ferrero Rocher chocolates – the round ball shaped a crunchy wafer with a creamy chocolate and hazelnut centre.
So, knowing it was dangerous to have chocolate just sitting in my cupboard, I decided to make chocolate cupcakes inspired by Ferrero Rocher chocolates!
Another cultural difference here is that very rarely do people buy premade cake mixes. In America, we have shelves full of premade cake mixes, whereas here in Scotland, most everyone makes their own cakes from scratch. So I thought I would embrace the culture and make my first ever truly homemade cake!
Homemade chocolate cupcakes with a Nutella and vanilla cream icing, topped with crushed Ferrero Rocher chocolates! MmmmMm…
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