Melt-in-your-mouth biscuits

Biscuits: 23-Dec-09

Recipe from Sarah at Baby-Carriers-Downunder.com Community These cookies were soooo delicious I ended up emmm... making them & filling them in jars for friends for Christmas presents in 2009...

Ingredients:
1 cup butter or margarine or nuttelex (approx 250g)
1/2 cup icing sugar (sieved)
vanilla essence to taste (approx 4 drops)
1 3/4 cup plain flour
cocoa powder to taste (optional for chocolate version)

Method:
1. Cream butter & sugar till light & fluffy.
2. Add vanilla essence & mix with cake mixer.
3. Add flour & mix with cake mixer.
4. Fill cookie gun & pipe mixture onto lined baking tray.
5. Bake at 180oC for 15 - 20 mins till golden.
6. Note: each oven is different, my table top convection oven, I baked at 160oC for about 8 mins but my normal oven, I baked at 170oC for about 10 mins.

(a) Christmas tree - I added a few drops of green colouring, then sprinkled 100s&1000s for deco before baking.
(b) flowers- I added pink colouring, then put 1 cachous in the middle of each flower before baking.
(c) chocolate cookies, after baking & cooled, I melted & drizzled white chocolate over the top of them for deco & tastes extra nice this way too! :-)

Melt-in-your-mouth biscuits

Basic Cookie Dough 1

Biscuits: 17-Dec-09

Basic Cookie Dough recipe is from the "100pc Cookie Cutter Set" box packaging! LOL!


I found this cookie dough to have a funny bite - but that was perhaps because my cookies were a bit thick but subsequent cookies were a lot thinner (as pictured here) & tasted much nicer.


I made these cookies with 2 batches of cookie dough & that yielded about 30- 40 cookies I think... :-)

Ingredients:
120gm Unsalted butter
1/2 cup Castor Sugar
1 Whole Egg
2 cups SR Flour, sifted
3 - 4 drops vanilla essence

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 170oC & lightly grease 2 trays.
2. Using an electric mixer, beat butter & sugar till light & fluffy.
3. Add egg, mix till combined.
4. Add sifted flour & vanilla essence.
5. Knead mixture to form a ball.
6. Wrap dough in plastic film & place dough in fridge to rest (approx 20 mins).
7. Using rolling pin, roll dough evenly on a clean, lightly floured surface until it is 3 - 4 mm thick. (I actually took a portion at a time out & flattened with my hands - found that easier to do as it was sticking to my rolling pin & I couldn't be bothered to keep putting flour on it...)
8. Use cutter to shape dough into desired shapes.
9. Place on prepared oven trays & cook for about 5 mins or until lightly golden (Mine took about 20 mins).
10. Remove from oven & transfer to wire rack to cool.
Decorate with icing sugar (I decorated mine with white chocolate).


Alternative:
Vary this cookie dough by simply adding your favourites to the flour. (eg. sultanas, cherries, lemon rind, orange rind, chocolate bits).

Basic Cookie Dough 1

Best Chocolate Chip & Light Chocolate Chip Cookies

Afternoon Tea & snacks: 03-Nov-09


Totally yum cookies... & whilst I'm at it... why not make 2 batches & split them into batches... 1 with cocoa powder, so it becomes like a double chocolate chip cookie whilst the other is without the extra cocoa...  :-)  My sis loves this recipe too... & has probably baked this more than I have whilst I'm off trying other recipes... *haha* :-)

I've also posted the recipe here: http://allrecipes.com.au/recipe/10645/best-chocolate---light-chocolate-chip-cookies-.aspx.


Recipe was adapted from Cadbury Dark Chocolate Chip packaging (I made 2 batches of cookies - about 85 - 90 cookies).


Ingredients:
250g butter
1 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup castor sugar
2 tsp vanilla essence
2 eggs
3 cups wholemeal self-raising flour
1/3 cup cocoa
1 cup Cadbury Dark Chocolate Chips
1 cup "Energy Mix" 
(Note: Energy Mix contains sunflower seeds, pepitas, sultanas, almond slivers.)

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 160C.
2. Cream butter and sugars until light & fluffy.
3. Mix in the vanilla essence and eggs.
4. Stir in the flour.

5. Split dough into 2 lots.
Lot A: Add in cocoa & "Energy Mix". Mix well.
Lot B: Add in dark chocolate chips. Mix well.

6. Roll teaspoonful of mixture onto a greased baking tray & bake for about 10 - 15 mins or until baked.
7. Leave on tray to cool for about 2 - 3 mins before removing & putting onto cooling racks to cool completely.

Best Chocolate Chip & Light Chocolate Chip Cookies