Mummys day biscuits

With mothers day fast approaching I thought I would share these cute mummys day biscuits that I made with the kiddies today :) They are really quick to make and lets face it, what mummy wouldn't swoon over some handmade biscuits from their little ones :)

Ingredients

100g (4oz) butter

50g (2oz) sugar

vanilla extract to taste

175g (6oz) plain flour

bottle top/1 teaspoon of milk

The good thing about this recipe is that it is very basic so you can add whatever flavourings you wish to them

Beat the butter and sugar together until you have a smooth yellow liquid.

Mix in the vanilla extra and flour and bring together, at the last minute add the milk to help bind and then leave in the fridge for 10 minutes

I then used a heart shape cutter for the little hearts and I got the boys to put their hands onto the biscuit dough whilst i cut out the shapes of their hands.

These are the biscuits after being baked in the over for approx 25mins.

I mixed some pink food colouring with some icing sugar and got the boys to decorate their biscuits

A biscuit wouldnt be complete without some chocolate sprinkles right? lol

These turnt out super cute and once dried can be popped into a clear bag with some ribbon tied around the top as a cute mothers day gift.

Christmas biscuit making with the kiddies

We had a Christmas themed day at work today as it was my last day this week and then I am off to center parcs for a long weekend with my boys. We decided to make and decorate Christmas biscuits.

I got some really nice festive Christmas biscuit cutters from amazon (sorry i dont have a picture of them and i have left them at work)

I got a simple biscuit recipe online but obviously use whatever one you prefer for your Christmas biscuits. Below is a picture of the christmas shapes once they were ready to be put into the oven before decorating. 

             

I laid out all different types of sprinkles, icing sugar and melted chocolates and let the children have free reign over how they wanted to decorate their biscuits. They really enjoyed doing it. I gave them all their own individual pots to try and make sure their was no arguing over decorating things. A sign of a good time was when I looked at the table after they had finished and saw all the mess lol.

Here are the finished products :)

I am going to be away on holiday from tomorrow until Monday so i wont be putting up any posts until Monday night where I will feel you in on our festive trip away :) So have a lovely weekend guys & dolls x

Ready .. Steady .. Cook!! :)

I love to cook! Especially new recipes I haven't tried before and I came across a chocolate brownie recipe online the other day so thought I would give it ago! I tweeked it a bit and made it my own and made one at work on wednesday and then did another one for the family on Sunday night .. went down a treat so much so that after work yesterday i fancied a nice big slice only to find out my darling pesky other half had scoffed the lot that was left LOL not impressed but suppose it saves on the calories (& propoints in my weight watchers world) anyway heres the recipe and a pic of my one :)

115g plain chocolate (ive used 2 different types but found tescos plain one to be the best so far, but whatever tickles your chocolaty taste buds will do fine)
55g unsalted butter
3 eggs
225g castor sugar
40g plain flour
25g cocoa powder (i used bournville drinking chocolate both times)
55g natural yogurt

What i did:
Melted down the chocolate and butter in the microwave until it was all nice and silky
In a seperate bowl I mixed the eggs and sugar just with a good old manual whisk (who needs fandangled machines anyway)
Then added in the flour and cocoa powder, gave it another good mix up and finished by adding the yogurt and chocolate/butter mix :)
Put it in a pregreased baking tin and into a preheated oven at 160 and cooked for 40-45mins

P.S: If you have a go at making this yummy brownie id love to see a piccie of yours :)

Voila :)