Cookies
This
recipe makes about 40 small (2 inch/6cm) cookies
Ingredients:
150g/5oz/three
quarter cup caster sugar
150g/5
oz/three quarter cup vegetable margarine
5
tablespoons of soya milk
300g/10
oz/1and a half cups of plain flour
1
teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)
Preheat
oven to 200C/400F and grease cookie sheets. Cream
together the sugar and marg. Mix in the soya milk
and vanilla and then the flour. The mixing of the
flour is best done with your hands (messy but
fun!). You should have a workable dough (add more
flour if it's too wet or more soya milk if too
dry and doesn't hold together well). Roll out on
a floured board (to just under 1 cm thick) and
cut into cookies (if you don't have cookie
cutters you can use an upturned glass). Lay on
cookie sheets and bake for about 10 minutes for
soft bake cookies or a little longer for dryer,
crunchy ones.
Variations:
Add choc, nuts or/and dried fruit
Half dip the cooled cookies in chocolate - choccy
biscuits!
Crushed chocolate beans are a colourful
replacement for chocolate chips. They can also be
pressed all over the top prior to baking.
Plain cookies with a handful of sesame seeds or
desiccated coconut added into the dough are
delicious.
Jewel biscuits: make a hole in the middle of your uncooked cookie once it is placed on a baking tray and place a boiled sweet in the space - this will melt down and fill the hole in the oven and then reset once cool - lovely for Christmas tree decorations!
Plain cookies with a square of chocolate pressed
onto them before baking work well too.
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