My Week in Pictures #02

1.Eilis's birthday meal at Coast to Coast, which was awesome 2.Lush's mask of magnaminty 3.History homework and homemade cookies 4.I can't believe there is a word for that 5.Failed attempt at macaroons 6.Nutella and banana heart shaped french toast 7.More shopping at boots, oops!/8.My sister making my day because she wrote 'not Leonardo DiCaprio' in the most likely to win an oscar column for our yearbook vote 9.Yummy Cookie Dough!

'You're My Hero' Medal Cookies from Wreck It Ralph

I finally got round to watching Wreck It Ralph over the holidays and oh my gosh its amazing! Whoever came up with that idea is pure genius. For those of you who don't know, it's sort of like toy story in the way that when the arcade closes all the games come to life and can travel into other games. If you haven't seen it, I definitely recommend it.

Anyway I decided to try and make cookies similar to the one that Vanellope gives to Ralph, as seen below-

I used Peggy Porschen's sugar cookie recipe which I found here and then used half a packet of royal icing mix from silverspoon to ice them. I iced around the edges in white first, then took two thirds of the mix which was left and added blue food dye and water to thin it out so that i good flood the cookies and then used the remaining white icing to write on them. 

Mine don't really look much like the ones from the movie but hey, I tried. And they tasted yummy. Which is what counts in biscuits. I hope.

Cherry & Chocolate Biscuits

These biscuits have a crunchy, crisp texture and a sweet taste.

Ingredients

225g Butter

140g caster Sugar

55g  Glacé Cherries chopped finely

280g Plain flour

55g Milk chocolate chips

1 egg yolk lightly beaten

2 tsp vanilla extract

pinch of salt

Method

1.Cream together the butter and sugar till light and fluffy

2. Beat in the egg yolk and the vanilla extract

3. sift in the flour and salt and mix well

4. Add the chocolate chips and cherries then mix well.

5. Wrap the dough in cling film and leave in the fridge for 30-60 minutes

6. Preheat the oven to 190degrees/Gas mark 5/ 375f and roll out the dough and cut into what ever shapes you want. My dough was too sticky to do this so I ended up rolling them into balls by hand and then just slightly flattening them on the tray.

7. Bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes till a light golden brown.

Mine didn't turn out great but oh well,

Katie xoxo

Secret Stash Printable Labels

Just some labels that I made to add to some sweet jars and give as gifts, I hope you like them,

Katie xoxo

White and Milk Chocolate Cookies :)

I made these white and milk chocolate chip cookies for the charity cake sale at school but I forgot to get a picture of them off the tray so this is all I've got .

Silly me ;)

Here's the ingredients you'll need-

300g Self Raising Flour

50g Caster Sugar

250g butter

100g Brown Sugar

2 tbsp Milk

175g Chocolate chips

1.preheat the oven to 180degrees/Gas Mark 4/fan160 

2.I'd advise you to soften the butter in the microwave and then cream the 

butter, caster sugar and brown sugar

3.Stir in the flour and milk then the chocolate chips

4. Make into 18 balls and slightly flatten on greased trays

5. Finally bake for 15-20 in the oven or until pale golden brown

Then enjoy eating them all!