Review: The Cookiepedia by Tara Striano

November 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The Cookiepedia - Mixing, Baking and Reinventing the classics. The first thing you notice when you received your copy of The Cookiepedia is its novel design, in the form of a small spiral binding, which is both cute and practical. Its design certainly makes it stand out from the crowd of recipe books I have received lately - that and the wonderful mouthwateringly good photography that is! All in all it was a fun read - its written in a casual style and contains some of the most wonderful … [Read more...]

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Toblerone Cookies

April 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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If you are anything like me at Easter time your mind focuses on one thing - Chocolate! Toblerone, one of my favourite of all bars, has provided me with a couple of recipe ideas which are positively mouthwatering - especially, I might add, this one for Toblerone Cookies. Ingredients: 75g butter or margarine 75g granulated sugar 75g light muscavado sugar 1 egg 175g self-raising flour 100g bar milk TOBLERONE, roughly chopped Makes 12 cookies Preparation: 1. Lightly grease 2 … [Read more...]

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Butter Cookies

October 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Ingredients: 9 oz unsalted butter, softened 9 oz unrefined caster sugar 2 large eggs, lightly beaten ½ tsp vanilla extract 18 oz plain flour 1 tsp baking powder Method: Beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, beat in the eggs and vanilla extract Sift the flour and baking powder into a separate bowl then stir the dry ingredients into the butter mixture Bring the dough together using your hands and turn out onto a floured work surface, knead into a ball Divide the dough in … [Read more...]

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Coconut Cookies

October 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Ingredients: 5 oz softened butter 4 oz golden caster sugar 5 oz plain flour ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda ½ tsp baking powder ½ tsp vanilla extract 1½ oz desiccated coconut Method: Beat the sugar and butter until light and fluffy and smooth, mix in the vanilla extract Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder into the bowl, add the desiccated coconut and mix thoroughly until the mixture comes together Divide into two pieces and make into sausages approximately 2” … [Read more...]

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