These delicious Chocolate & Ginger Cookies might also be considered to be cakes, as they are lovely and soft inside, with the great hit of both flavours.
Biscuits & Cookies
Recipes for some lovely biscuits and cookies, which are usually very quick and easy to make.
Raisin Flapjacks – Raisin Oat Bars
Flapjacks are just so full of healthy oats. So popular in the UK, and they can be stuffed full of seeds, chocolate, fruit etc to satisfy anyone.
Walnut Baskets – Walnut Tarts
These little walnut baskets are based on a favourite Hungarian treat. My sister Margaret, who lives in Canada, was checking on Pinterest and came across a Hungarian treat called Diós kosárka. That translates, according to Google as Walnut Baskets. Basically these little baskets are made with a wonderfully crumbly shortcrust pastry case which is then […]
Malted Milk & Chocolate Chip Cookies
This lovely recipe, for Malted Milk & Chocolate Chip Cookies is so easy to make, and results in a wonderfully flavoured and soft-textured cookie. The idea came to me as I was experimenting with trying to recreate Malted Milk Biscuits, which are readily available in supermarkets. I also had some malted milk powder which needed […]
Welsh Cakes – A Griddle Cake
Welsh Cakes are a traditional griddle cake, made all over Wales. These cakes were often taken to work by the coal miners as a sweet treat as part of their lunch. These lovely griddle cakes, which are also known as Bakestones, are very easy to make and a truly authentic recipe is difficult to define […]
Ginger Creams – Sandwich Biscuits
These Ginger Creams are a very simple recipe and they don’t take very long to make. They are just biscuits, sandwiched together in pairs with some creamy filling. The biscuits are flavoured with ground ginger and the amount can be varied depending on personal preference. For mine I used 2 tsps of the spice to […]
Fig Newtons – Fig Rolls
Tender pastry filled with a sweet fig filling make Fig Newtons irresistible. Perfect with a cup of tea or coffee. Back in 2015, before I was doing videos of my baking, I made some Fig Newtons, or Fig Rolls as they are more commonly known in the UK. They are a really lovely biscuit, or […]
Crisp & Crunchy Anytime Biscuits
As I was experimenting on the base for a dessert I wanted to make I came up with these delicious biscuits. They are nice and crisp with a lovely crunch. The texture is light and airy and the crunch is very tender as you bite into the biscuit. The use of soft light brown sugar […]
Easy Chocolate Shortbread
Quick and easy this recipe for chocolate shortbread works very well indeed. I do love shortbread and enjoy most baked things that include chocolate. So I decided to make some chocolate shortbread, just as an experiment, based on a shortbread recipe I used recently. All I did was to substitute some of the flour and […]
Caramel Dodgers – Sandwich Cookies
Instead of a Jammy Dodger why not try a caramel version. Perfection in just a couple of bites. Here in the UK we have a biscuit, known as Jammy Dodgers, which are some jam sandwiched between two biscuits, with a hole in the middle of the top one. I thought it might be a nice […]