Chocolate Cornflakes Biscuits

It's been a while since I've baked some biscuits or cookies and came across this easy recipe so, I decided to give it a shot. Caitlin helped, too! And it turned out fantastic!!! Crunchy on the outside and soft like cake on the inside.

Ingredients: -

• 125g butter, chopped
• 1/2 cup castor sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp of vanilla essence/extract
• 1 cup self-raising flour
• 1 cup cornflakes; 1 1/2 cups extra for coating (crushed)
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup sultanas (raisins)
• 1/2 cup chopped glaced cherries (I used a mixture of red and green for more colour)

1. Preheat oven at 180 degrees C'. Lightly grease 2 or 3 oven trays or you may opt for baking paper.
2. In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla.
3. Fold flour in. Add 1 cup of cornflakes, sultanas, chocolate chips and cherries.
4. On another separate bowl, put the crushed cornflakes.
5. Roll teaspoons of mixture into balls and then toss in the crushed cornflakes. Placed onto prepared trays with about 3cm in distance as the biscuits will expand.
6. Bake for about 10-15 mins or until golden.
7. Cool in trays for 5 mins before transferring to wire rack to cool completely.

Ta da!!!! Easy...easy...recipe. Gonna make these for festive seasons next time.

Corn Flake Cookie

A very simple recipe and who can resist Corn Flake Cookies.

Ingredients A:-
- 100 g butter
- 80g caster sugar

Ingrdients B:-
- 1 egg (Grade A)
- 1/2 tsp vanilla essence

Ingredients C:-
- 150g plain flour
- 15g custard powder
- 30g cereals
- 50g almond nibs

***You will need about 80 to 100 small paper cups and 150g corn flakes for decorations***

1. Place ingredients (A) in a mixer. Beat until fluffy, add in ingredients (B). Mix well, fold in ingredients (C) to form a dough.
2. Divide dough and roll into small balls and coat with the cornflakes. Leave in the paper cup. Repeat process and arrange the cups on lined baking trays like below.

3. Bake in a preheated oven at 170 degrees for about 15-20 mins. Cool and store in airtight containers.

An easy recipe and a healthy snack.....

Sunflower Seed Crisp Cookie

This recipe is very similar in terms of looks and taste to my Macadamia Chocolate Chip Cookie except that this recipe has cereals and sunflower seeds added on. For those of you who don't want it to be too sweet, my advice is to lessen the sugar in the recipe.

Ingredients A:-
- 200g butter
- 80g caster sugar
- 140g brown sugar

Ingredients B:-
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 2 eggs (grade A)

Ingredients C:-
- 270g plain flour
- 50g cereals
- 200g chocolate chips
- 200g sunflower seeds
- 1/4 tsp baking soda

1. Beat ingredients (A) in a mixer until fluffy. Add in ingrdients (B) and mix well. Fold in ingredients (C) and combine to form a dough,
2. Divide into small rounds and arrange on line baking trays.
3. Bake in preheated oven at 180 degrees for 10-15 mins. Cool and store in airtight containers.

Ghee & Almond Cookies

An all-time favourite especially for hubby. Since I first made this some 4 years back, hubby has always loved it and it's been 2 years since I've bothered to make any cookies to begin with. Time never seemed to be on my side and since my decision to make some cookies this festive season; my as well make hubby's favourite cookies.

Also, it's quite simple to bake as well.

Ingredients A:-
- 150g ghee
- 130 icing sugar

Ingrdients B:-
- 150g almond powder (toasted)
- 230g plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder

Glazing:-
1 egg yolk

1. Stir ingredients (A) together until well mixed. Fold in ingredients (B) and stir together to form a dough
2. Make it small round balls and arrange on lined baking tray. Glaze surfaces.
3. Bake in a preheated oven at 170 degrees for about 10-15 mins. Leave to cool and then store into airtight containers.

I told you it was an easy recipe.....

Macadamia Chocolate Chip Cookie

An all time favourite for people of all ages. Well, following the recipe, you may want to lessen your sugar if you're not all that into sweet stuffs. I followed the recipe to the T and felt it was a bit sweet for me but hubby seems to love it.

So, it's entirely up to you.....

Ingredients A:-
- 160g butter
- 80g caster sugar
- 110g brown sugar


Ingredients B:-
- 1 egg (grade A)
- 1/2 tsp vanilla essence

Ingredients C:-
- 200g plain flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 100g Macadamia nuts (diced)
- 100g chocolate chips

1. Place ingredients (a) in a mixer. Beat until fluffy and add ingredients (B) and mix well. Fold in ingredients (C), Mix till paste-like.
2. Use a teaspoon to scoop out the dough and use a second teaspoon to aid in shaping the dough on lined baking trays.

3. Bake in a preheated over at 180 degrees for about 10-15 mins or until golden.

4. Cool well on wire racks and store in airtight containers.

See??? An easy recipe...

German Crunch

Well, due to my very, very busy work and social life, I've hardly had much of a time to experiment new cooking recipes. In fact, whenever I've got the time, I will just cook the usual recipes which I'm already familiar with which you can see here in this recipe blog.

In conjunction with the upcoming Chinese New Year festivities, I had decided to make a couple of cookies for hubby's workplace, mine and some for home; and some for my ex-office where I still have very dear ex-colleagues who I'm still close with.

Here's the first of the cookies I have made and this is one of my personal favourites. An easy recipe.

Ingredients A:-
- 250g butter
- 100g icing sugar

Ingredients B:-
- 250g potato starch
- 100g plain flour

1. Place ingredient (A) in a big mixing bowl. Cream well, add in ingredient (B) and mix to form a dough.

2. Shape into round balls and arrange on lined baking trays.
3. Press flat with a fork to create a pattern.
4. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 170 degrees for about 10-15 mins until well baked through.
5. It should be pale in colour and not golden brown. Cool well on wire racks and keep in ait tight containers.