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 17, Chocolate Christmas Kisses

Ingredients

200g margarine
1 cup caster sugar
1 egg yolk
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/2 cup milk
1/2 tsp red food colouring
1 1/2 cup plain flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda

Method

Preheat oven to 180C
Melt margarine then mix in sugar then egg yolk, milk, vanilla essence and food colouring.
In a separate bowl sift flour, cocoa and baking powder.
Fold flour mixture into margarine mixture then mix well.
Spoon onto a lined tray or use a christmas tree plate in a cookie press.
When using the cookie press, use a tinfoil lined tray, shiny side up.
Bake for 6-8 minutes.

Filling

1 1/2 cups icing sugar
2 Tbsp margarine
1 tsp peppermint essence
1/2 tsp of red food colouring
1/2 tsp of green food colouring
Boiling water

Split the icing sugar, margarine and peppermint essence between two cups/bowls.
To one cup add red colouring to the other add green colouring.
Slowly stir in hot water (pour over margarine to help melt it) in to each cup until mix is of the right thickness.
For this recipe it is preferable to have a thicker filling to help keep the biscuits together.

Putting It Together

Sandwich two biscuits together with peppermint filling in between.

December 15, Kahlua and Choc Chip Biscuits

I'm assuming these biscuits are good because I took them to work (fellow employees make good testers) and they were all gone before I could try one.

Ingredients

200g butter, softened
1/3 cup caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 Tbsp Kahlua
2/3 cup plain flour
1 cup self-raising flour
1/2 cup chocolate drops
1 Tbsp coffee powder

Method

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

For Non-Coffee Lovers

Just skip the coffee and Kahlua to make some damn fine choc chip cookies.