Chocolate Dipped Shortbread Biscuits

My boyfriend had a Christmas party at work and was asked to bring in a dessert. I decided this would be a good time to make some shortbread and use some Christmas themed cookie cutters I received last year, and haven't had a chance to use yet. Shortbread is incredibly easy to make, and dipping them in chocolate adds an extra bit of yumminess, though if you are a purist or can't be bothered, you can always omit the chocolate as shortbread tastes great on its own.

Good quality unsalted butter really does make a difference here; I have to admit I always use Lurpak butter - a Danish butter sold here in the UK - when I make shortbread, as it has exactly the right taste for shortbread.. Amazing.

Can you guess what the shapes are below? According to Pete, his work-mates could not make any sense of them and someone even thought one was a.. penguin! This amused me a lot.

Mango and Clementine Tarte Tatin

A while back I had an overly ripe mango and wanted a recipe to do something with it. I found a recipe for mango tarte tatin online, but as I started to cook it, it had all the measurements completely wrong, with too much pastry and too little fruit. So I played it by ear a bit and modified it, adding in a clementine. The result turned out nicely, though you may want to add more fruit. As always, if you prefer to use ready made pastry, go ahead.