Mini M&M Cookies

This recipe if for my little brother, Sam. I hope you enjoy making these!

Ingredients

200g butter, softened
1/3 cup caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
2/3 cup plain flour
1 cup self-raising flour
1/2 tube of M&M minis

Method

Preheat oven to 175C.
Beat together butter, sugar, vanilla essence.
In a separate bowl, sift together flours then fold into butter mixture.
Mix in M&Ms.
Spoon mixture onto a lined tray, each biscuit uses the equivalent of a heaped tablespoon of mixture.
Bake for 15 minutes or until golden.

December 28, Strawberry Muffin Top Kisses

Ingredients

1 cup plain flour
3/4 cup desicated coconut
1/2 cup icing sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
2 tbsp margarine, melted

1 egg white
1 cup icing sugar
4 Tbsp Strawberry jam

Method

Preheat oven to 180C.
Mix flour, coconut, sugar and baking soda together in a bowl.
In a seperate bowl whisk egg then add milk and margarine.
Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and add egg mixture into well.
Mix ingredients well.
Pour into a medium sized 12 muffin tray (only ~1 and 1/2 Tbsp each).
Bake for 10 minutes or ontil golden in colour.
Let cool.

Filling

Whisk egg white until it forms soft peaks then while still whisking add icing sugar tablespoon by tablesoon and then add jam.

Putting It Together

Once cool cut biscuits in half and spoon on strawberry filling and stick biscuits back together.
Leave in refridgerator to set.

December 20, Christmas Stars

Ingredients

200g margarine, softened
1 cup caster sugar
2 eggs
3 cups plain flour
2 different colours of boiled lollies

Method

Beat together margarine and sugar until mixture is smooth.
Beat in eggs on at a time, mixing well.
Sift in flour and mix.
Roll out mixture on a floured board.
Split dough in half, wrap in glad wrap and refrigerate for 1 hr.
Preheat oven to 180C.
Roll mixture out once more and cut out star shapes (as shown below).



Place stars on a lined baking tray and place a lolly in the middle of each star.
Bake for 8-10 minutes.
Let cool before removing from tray as lollies will need to set in place.

This is a modified version of a recipe from Taste.com.au