Category Archives: Cookies/ Biscuits

Sweet Treats for a Birthday Party

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For Aiden’s 2nd birthday, his mommy baked his birthday cake, and ordered sweet baked goodies from me for the party guests!

traditional baked cheesecake served with fresh chopped strawberries and citrus

strawberry cupcakes topped with cream cheese icing,
and caramel-filled chocolate cupcakes with caramel and vanilla butter icing

iced sugar cookies – checquered flags, cars, and planes

red velvet “brownies” made with chopped macadamia nuts, cherries, and cranberries,
and snickerdoodles (my favourite FAVOURITE cookie)

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Cookies from Cake!

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I was craving cookies the other day, but I was also feeling a little lazy to bake them, so when I found a packet of chocolate muffin mix in my pantry, it was perfect timing!

If you have a box cake mix, or muffin mix, you can make delicious soft cookies by mixing the dry powder with the eggs and oil as per the recipe – don’t add the milk or water in the instructions. Roll balls from the dough, or spoon the mixture onto your cookie sheet and bake like you would regular cookies!

Delicious!

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Snickerdoooooooodles!!

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The snickerdoodle is my favourite FAVOURITE cookie, so when someone orders them from me, I bake a whole extra batch for me and my hubby to enjoy!

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They’re a deliciously soft cookie with a crunchy cinnamon-sugar shell, and they’re perfect dipped in coffee!

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I Tried My Hand At Iced Cookies!!

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So what have I learnt from my experimentation with iced cookies?

That I need a LOT of practice!

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Apart from that, here are a few tips from a novice.
1. Once you find the right recipe- one that bakes nice and flat- bake your cookies the day before you want to ice them and several days before you want to serve them. The icing takes up to 24 hours to dry.
2. Do not underestimate the value of YouTube tutorials!
3. Decide on a couple of designs you want to try on your cookies. Trying to think of a design when you have your icing mixed and ready does not work.
4. Once your cookies are cooled and ready to ice, your mise en place is essential!!! Its a French phrase which means “putting in place”, as in set up.
5. Have three times as many piping bags as you think you’ll need. If you’ve never folded a paper piping cone, plastic disposable bags work really well and if you snip off the tip carefully you don’t need nozzles.
6. Mix your royal icing. I found that for me a 20 second icing was perfect for lines and a 14 second icing for flooding. What this means is that once you’ve finished mixing, count how long the icing takes to smooth out again. You want it a little runny for flooding, but for piping and lines it has to hold its shape.
7. If you’re not trying the wet-on-wet technique to start with, wait for the icing to dry!

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