This is such a simple recipe, and perfect for kiddies to make. Try your hand at this frugal, and exceedingly yummy recipe. All in all, I think it cost approximately 45p to make 12 biscuits…
Ingredients






This is such a simple recipe, and perfect for kiddies to make. Try your hand at this frugal, and exceedingly yummy recipe. All in all, I think it cost approximately 45p to make 12 biscuits…
Ingredients
I have made this recipe time and time again, and when I come to make them again this morning, I realised that my eggs were TOTALLY out of date, so I decided to mix up the recipe a little to make them without any egg yolk. They’ve come out a treat, and according to the hubby, these are the “best” I’ve ever made.
If I have calculated this correctly, the ingredient amounts below should make approximately 20 biscuits, and cost about 60p ($0.75).
Perfect for those family members and friends who have an egg allergy, try this out.
Ingredients
8oz (225g) butter – softened
4oz (115g) sugar (I used caster sugar, but standard, granulated is ok too)
Vanilla essence
5tbsp water
12oz (340g) plain flour
Hard boiled sweets (or hard boiled candies, if you live in the US)
Method
It’s Gnings’ last day in school tomorrow, as he is breaking up for Christmas. I can’t believe how quickly it has come around!
I’ve been struggling for ideas on what he should give to his teacher, and two teaching assistants, as a gift for Christmas; and with money being a bit tight too (I’m still on maternity leave), I didn’t really want to spend a lot. So I thought, everyone loves biscuits, so that’s what we’ll do. And that’s what we did!
I think I managed to make about 50 stars, and 35 “gingerbread” biscuits. The stars cost approx. 50p, and the “gingerbread” ones about 75p.
Here’s the recipe:~
125g butter, softened
55g caster sugar
180g plain flour (all-purpose)
OPTIONAL – (1tbsp desiccated coconut)
Drop of water
Excuse the pics – my camera is playing up a little 😦
And this is how I packaged them up – all ready for Gningy to take in to school tomorrow:
I needed an alternative recipe to impress my work colleagues, and as it’s the middle of the year (and nowhere near Christmas), I didn’t think the spiced stained window biscuits would be suitable. Instead, I have adapted the recipe to make a simple, basic, vanilla biscuit base for you to enjoy. You can even add your own twist to them! Suggestions for alternatives are lower down in this post…
Ingredients
250g butter, softened
140g caster sugar
1 egg yolk (from a large egg… Sorry, you’ll have to waste the egg white on this one)
2tsp vanilla essence
300g plain flour
Decorations: hard boiled sweets, sprinkles, chocolate chips, whatever you like!
Method
1. Preheat your oven to 180C (170C for fan assisted).
2. Line a baking sheet with greaseproof paper.
3. You’re supposed to use the back of a wooden spoon for all this, but I used an electric whisk on the slowest speed… It worked perfectly fine 🙂 Cream the butter.
4. Add the sugar and cream together.
5. Add the egg yolk and vanilla essence .
6. Gradually add the flour… I continued to use my electric whisk with no problem here. Towards the end of adding all of your flour, you will notice the mixture not sticking together… It’s ok… Now is the time to get your hands involved.
7. Put some flour on your hands, and knead the dough together into a ball.
8. On a floured workspace, roll out the dough to approx. 1cm thick.
9. Use cookie cutters to cut out your biscuits, and lie them on the papered tray. Alternatively, cut out your desired shape with a knife (careful!).
10. Decorate your biscuits any way you please… Push in the chocolate chips, sprinkle with sprinkles (ha!), cut out smaller shapes in the middle and add a hard boiled sweet… Whatever you please, but bare in mind that whatever you decorate them with will be baked!
11. Place in the centre of the oven for 20 minutes.
12. If you’d like to decorate your biscuits with icing, ensure that they are fully cooled down before doing so. This can take approx. 30 minutes.
Enjoy them!
**Try adding lemon juice instead of vanilla essence… Yummy
** Replace 1 tablespoon of the flour for 1 table spoon of cocoa powder… Mmmm
How’s this for a fun recipe… Try it with the kids…
Ingredients
For the biscuits:
350g/12oz plain flour, plus extra for dusting
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
½ tsp salt
2 tsp ground ginger
100g/3½oz butter
175g/6oz soft brown sugar
1 large egg, beaten
4 tbsp golden syrup
Packet wrapped fruit-flavoured hard boiled sweets in different colours
For the decorations (optional):
Tube ready-made white icing
Narrow ribbon
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180C (160C for fan assisted ovens)2. Mix the flour, bicarb of soda, salt and ginger together in a bowl
3. Rub in the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs, then stir in the sugar
4. In another bowl, beat together the egg and golden syrup, then pour this mixture into the flour mixture and mix to make a smooth dough, kneading lightly with your hands
5. Crush the sweets in their wrappers using a rolling pin
6. Roll the dough out on a floured work surface to about half a cm thick, then cut into shapes using a selection of Christmasy cookie cutters
7. Transfer the biscuits to baking sheets lined with baking paper8. Cut out shapes in the centre of each biscuit, making sure you leave a good edge all around the biscuit
9. Completely fill the hole in each biscuit with some crushed boiled sweets
10. (OPTIONAL) Make a hole at the top of each biscuit using a drinking straw so that you will be able to thread a ribbon through it later
11. Bake the biscuits in the oven for 10-12 minutes, or until golden-brown
12. Remove the biscuits from the oven. While they’re still warm, check that the holes are still there – if not, push a straw through again. Do not remove the biscuits from the baking tray until they have cooled because the boiled sweets need to harden. Once the sweets have hardened, gently lift the biscuits onto a wire rack with a palette knife to finish cooling
13. If you like, you can decorate the biscuits with piped white icing. Thread ribbons through the holes in the biscuits to make loops for hanging from the tree
Yummy! I don’t know whether I can wait until Christmas!