Cozy Christmas in The Cotswolds 🎄

The start of a cozy Christmas season in the Cotswolds.
Quaint cottages decorated for Christmas, snow in the English countryside, magical Cotswolds villages and at the end, baking a sticky toffee pudding on a cold wintry evening.

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Locations visited:
✨Broadway
✨Stow-on-the-Wold
✨Little Haseley

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STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING

I based it on this recipe (it really is the best you can find online),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PExZ-zHYso&t=8s&ab_channel=DonalSkehan
however I did do a few changes to suit my taste:

- Reduced sugar SIGNIFICANTLY. Instead of 150g of sugar for the cake part I added only 90g, and added 125g of dates instead of 150g as well.
- For the caramel, I added 85g of butter and 65g of sugar (and 100 ml of cream)
- This dessert is very rich with other sweeteners - dates, treacle, syrup, so I’d say reducing sugar is a must. If you don’t want to reduce sugar as significantly as I did, try 100g for sponge & 100g for caramel instead. Even with all reductions I did, this dessert turned out very sweet.
- I cooked dates with a little knob of grated fresh ginger for extra scrumptiousness.
- I also used vegan butter as my husband can’t have lactose. It worked well.
- I didn’t have self raising flour, so I used regular white flour + teaspoon of baking powder.
- Substituted golden syrup with maple syrup. I know, not traditional at all, but I like maple syrup more & it's easier to access worldwide. You can also substitute it with honey.
- Black treacle is a must and that’s what gives this pudding its deep flavour. However, if you can’t find treacle (or dark molasses), use very very dark brown sugar instead - the darkest you can find. For 1 tbsp of treacle use 2 tbsp of dark brown sugar.

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Filmed on: Panasonic GH6
Edited with: Premiere Pro CC
Music: Epidemic Sound

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00:00 - 00:28 Intro
00:29 - 03:52 Festive Cotswolds
03:53 - 05:59 Cozy Snowy Morning
06:00 - 06:30 Talking
06:31 - 08:43 Snowy English Cottages
08:44 - 10:20 Unprepared for snow
10:21 - 13:53 Christmas Postcards
13:54 - 17:48 Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe
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