Easy Cookie Recipe

 So this is really an easy/basic recipe and makes about 50 cookies. I like to spice up my recipe by either adding some choc chips or cinnamon&nutmeg instead of vanilla. An awesome idea is to add food colouring to the raw cookie dough.

Heart Cookies

 

Here's what you need:

• 150g butter, soften
• 150g sugar
• 2 pinches of salt
• 5ml vanilla essence
• 1 egg
• 265g self-raising flour

 

Here's how to make them:

• Preheat the oven to 200 Degrees Celsius, and grease a baking tray.
• Soften the butter, then add the sugar, vanilla, salt and egg and stir.
• Knead the flour into the mixture
• Roll out the dough into about 4mm thick and cut out into shapes 
• Bake for 10minutes

I baked these heart cookies the other day using this recipe. The only change is that I divided my cookie dough into 3/4 and 1/4, and then adding some pink food colouring to the (3/4) ball cookie dough.

Cookie Dough

The shape that I wanted is a heart shaped cookie. So I made a long 'tube' heart, rolling out the remaining 1/4 white cookie dough and covering the pink with the white. Another thing to do is to refrigerate the shaped cookie dough before you start cutting it into cookie slices, especially if you decide to roll the dough into a tube; This makes cutting the cookie dough easier and doesn't deform the shape when cutting. I recommend refrigerating the dough between 30min to an hour.

A Little Bit Of Deco Ideas

Posting here about stuff I made to make the apartment a bit lively. Some are small things and other just plain and simple.

Paper Flowers in a Jar

Paper Flowers in a Jar

Do you have an empty jar? Well fill it with paper flowers and roses. I did various sizes of the Kususdama flower, and then the basic paper roses.

Paper Flowers in a Jar

Hang up Postcards or Old Glasses on a Wall

Short Ideas

This post is all about making use of simple ideas to create something yummy. I love experimenting with food, and I think this post is going to be updated every once in a while, because I always seem to forget to take a picture to show you what I'm up to.

The Creamachino

 

Creamachino

This is what I call the creamachino, and basically it's strong coffee with a big dollop of whipped cream and some blue sprinkles on top. I had some cream left, but not enough for ice cream or any other idea I had. So whipped up the cream (added some sugar), made some strong coffee and topped it up with whipped cream. The sprinkles is optional, but it does make the creamachino look more fun.

Add Chilli To Anything Chocolate

 

Chocolate and Chilli Cupcakes

I love chocolate, but I love chocolate more when a little chilli is added. The trick is to add enough to make you feel warm and not to burn the taste buds right off your tongue. Like these chocolate cupcakes I made, I added about 2 teaspoons of dried crushed chillies in a mixture that makes 12 cupcakes. And if you have the gadgets, crush the dried chillies further with a mortar and pestle, this will bring out the chilli flavour even more.

Passion Fruit Cupcake

Passion Fruit Cupcake

Some time ago passion fruit was on special, and this is absolutely one of my favourite fruits, followed by the dragon fruit. This is really easy to make, and all you need is either your own favourite vanilla cupcake recipe or some box premixed vanilla cupcake. Add about three to four passion fruits' puree in the raw cupcake mix, and bake per instructions. The icing is made again from about 2 passion fruits' puree. Add some lemon juice to keep the icing from being too sweet and this also brings out the passion fruit flavour.