IT'S WEDNESDAY WARMERS: The Not Your Usual Suspects authors share their seasonal recipes ... mmmmmm!
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Ingredients (Serves: 20)
110g (4 oz) butter
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons golden syrup
4 teaspoons cocoa
225g (8 oz) Digestive / sweetmeal biscuits, crushed
1 handful of raisins (optional)
225g (8 oz) cooking chocolate - half milk & half dark
Prep: 10 mins | Cook: 5 mins | Extra time: 1 hour, setting
In a saucepan, melt the butter, sugar, syrup and cocoa. Add the biscuits and raisins when melted. Stir to combine. Pour mixture into a swiss roll size tin and press down. Melt the cooking chocolate and pour over the mixture in the tin. Pop the tin into the fridge and leave for about 1 hour to set. To serve, cut into about 20 pieces.
Tip : Melt the chocolate by microwaving at 30 second intervals, stirring in between, till melted. But be careful not to scorch the chocolate! Otherwise, melt in a bowl set over a pan of boiling water.
2 cups Butter, softened
1 cup Granulated sugar
½ tsp Peppermint extract
4 cups All-purpose flour
⅓ cup Crushed candy canes
In bowl, beat butter with sugar until fluffy. Beat in peppermint extract. Stir in flour, ½ cup at a time, until combined. Shape dough into four logs, each about four inches long and two inches in diameter. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least two hours or for up to three days (Can be frozen in airtight container for up to three weeks.)
Using a serrated knife, cut logs into ¼–inch thick slices; place about two inches apart on baking sheets. Bake in center of 350˚F oven for 10 minutes; remove and sprinkle ¼-tsp crushed candy in center of each. Return to oven; bake for two minutes or until firm to the touch, bottoms are golden and candies are melted. Let cool in pan on rack for 10 minutes; transfer to rack and let cool completely. (Cookies can be stored in an airtight container for up to three weeks.) Makes about 60 cookies, 100 calories each.
ANNE MARIE BECKER shares SNOWBALL COOKIES
1/2 lb. butter
2 1/3 c. flour
1/2 c. sugar
1 c. walnuts or pecans, chopped
2 tsp. vanilla
approx. 2 c. powdered sugar and/or sprinkles
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Cream the butter with the sugar and vanilla. Add the flour (gradually) and then the nuts. Roll spoonfuls of dough in hands to form into balls (about 1-2 inches in diameter). Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake about 25-30 minutes, or until a pale golden brown. While baked cookies are still hot, roll in powdered sugar (and sprinkles if desired). Roll in powdered sugar again when cool.
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Clare London
Writing … Man to Man
Marcelle Dube
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18 comments:
You guys are killing me! That's why you're suspense writers. LOL!
These cookies look fantastic.
Tiffin is a new kind of bar cookie for me. Sounds like something my dad would really like.
Anne, it's frighteningly easy to make, and even more shockingly delicious LOL. I must admit I couldn't find my earliest recipe - which was in my school exercise book! - and I don't usually bother with the raisins. It's just biscuit, sugary-stuff and chocolate. *sigh* I say that like it's a bad thing... :).
Oh, I love tiffin :) And those ball things...OMG, look delicious :)
Thanks! I might make these of Fri when kids are off.
MMMMMMMM....these all look good!
What kind of consistency are "digestive" biscuits? And what would "golden syrup" translate to for US ingredients?
And what's a Swiss roll tin? (Dear Lord, I can feel my hips widening just reading this!)
Drool... Those all sound delicious! Thanks for the recipes--tiffin is definitely something new to me!
Tiffin is something new to me but being from Canada, I'm familiar with all the ingredients...and what a Swiss Roll is! ;) I like the fact that this is one treat that doesn't need to be baked! *iz vry tired of baking now*
Maya
I just had breakfast and I'm starving. Please explain to this American: Do Digestive biscuits have anything to do with the digestion?
I am going to try all of these. Oh, yum!
I love the optimistic 'serves 20' for the Tiffin. *snort*
LOL @ Shirley :)
I agree with Maureen, you guys are killing me!
Claire really defined the type and the consistency of the biscuits. Is golden syrup like a simple syrup or is it like the type of syrup that people put on their pancakes?
That coconut ice stuff recipe from a few days ago is to die for OMG!
BTW next month is exercise month.
These all look so yummy.
Yummy... Reading those recipes before bed time not a good idea my mouth is watering
Sarah S
These recipes sound wonderful - for next year! I'm baked out for this year.
I forget I may have to translate my UK ingredients LOL. Golden syrup is thicker than a fruit syrup but still of pouring consistency. Yes, it's like the syrup you'd put on pancakes, I'd guess.
Digestive biscuits - yes, Elise, apparently named because it was originally thought they had antacid properties! - are also called sweetmeal. They're thick and sweet and crumbly, perfect for dunking in your tea or coffee :) and good for dessert bases like cheesecake. But you could use any sweet biscuit that can be crumbled and moulded with butter into a base. So long as you can still cut it when it's set LOL.
Hmm. Wikipedia tells me people in the US substiture Graham crackers for digestives, but I wouldn't say they're the same?! :?.
Golden syrup is usually in a tin and is MUCH thicker than corn syrup. I'm not sure how it's sold here but I'll look. It's the consistency of honey.
You can get digestives in Canada so I bet you can get them in the US too. Love them with a cup of tea. :)
Okay guys, Golden syrup and digestive cookies are available at Amazon. And looking at the package of cookies I think my local market carries them so I will be checking.
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