Blogmas day 23: COOKIE FAIL!

HELLOO EVEERYONEEEE!

OH MY GOLLY GOOSEBERRIES ITS 2 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS WHAT!? WHAT?! WHAT?!?!?


So if you haven't guessed by the title this was supposed to be a cooking tutorial because I love to bake however they turned out rock solid :( I baked them for shorter than the recipe said and they came out hard as rock!! However im still going to tell you how I did it!

You will need:

150g- salted butter

80g- light brown muscovado sugar

2 tsp- vanilla extract

1- large egg

225g- plain flour

½ tsp- bicarbonate of soda

200g- Milk chocolate chips.

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
2. Line two baking trays with non-stick baking paper.
3. Put the butter and sugar into a bowl and beat until creamy. Then mix in the vanilla extract and egg.
4.  Sieve the flour and bicarbonate of soda over the mixture and mix in with a wooden spoon.
5. Then add the chocolate chips and stir well.
6. Using a teaspoon, place small mounds of the mixture well apart on the baking trays. Bake in the oven for 10 mins until light brown.- I RECOMMEND 8 MINS!
7. Leave on the tray for a couple of minutes to firm up and then transfer to a cooling rack.

There is the recipe for the cookies! This is how mine turned out even though they are rock solid :(

 

MINE LOOK VERY WEIRD I KNOW!

 

 

 

 

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Blogmas day 13: Christmas shortbread!

HELLOO EVERYONE!

12 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS YES YES YES!

Today I'm doing something that I love and that's baking! I have made some amazing shortbread and I made them into cute Festive shapes, and I thought that they could be cute as gifts or just with a hot chocolate or cup of tea!

You will need:

- 125g Butter

- 55g Caster Sugar

- 180g Plain flour

Method:

1. Heat the oven to 180c

2. Beat the butter and the sugar together until smooth.

3. Stir in the flour until it is like a dough, and then place on a floured surface. 

4. Cut into all different shapes you like and sprinkle with caster sugar and chill in the fridge for 20 minutes.

5. Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes, or until pale golden-brown. Set aside to cool down!

My shortbread tasted amazing! My fabourite shapes are below:

I hope you liked this post, because I love baking so I have more cooking tutorial soft you! You could now take a stack of the same shape and stack them up then tie a ribbon around the outside as a cute gift idea!

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Sausage roll fail!

hey guys!

So this week I decided to do another food kind of topic related tutorial, because everyone loves food lets face it! However if you hadn't guessed by the title clearly something is going to go wrong because I completely messed these up, and I think they look nothing like sausage tools, so I advise you to use something to make them and not my tutorial! If you know where I went wrong, because I don't, please leave a comment at the bottom and tell me, because I want to make these again, but better!

**BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING WASH YOUR HANDS AND THE SURFACE YOU ARE WORKING OUT, TIE BACK YOUR HAIR AND ALL THAT STUFF YOUR SUPPOSED TO DO!**

Ingridient's and their measurements:

-200 grams plain flour

-100 grams Butter/Margarine

-3/4tbsps of water

-150 grams of sausage meat

-Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius-

1) Firstly, start by rubbing the butter into the flour. Use only your finger tips because the palm of your hand gets hot and this will cause the butter to melt and you don't want this!

2) Once the mixture looks like it has formed bread crumbs, add 3/4 tbsp of water and mix the pastry into a ball.

3) Place the pastry onto a floured surface, and roll out to about a 10 pence in thickness.

4) Taking a sharp knife, cut out a rectangle, so that the shape is even. Then take your sausage meat and place along the left side first. Taking a brush and some water, slide across the edges to keep them shut. Then roll your sausage rolls up and pinch along the closed area to keep it shut.

5) Now close the ends of the sausage rolls by pinching and folding away any thing that isn't neat. Then place onto a greased baking tray. Repeat steps 3,4,5 until you have used all the pastry.

6) Now taking your scissors cut little slits along the top to let the heat get into the middle for baking!

7) Finally Glaze the top of the sausage rolls with water or you can use milk/egg, to add a glossy effect and bake for about 20-30 minuites! Or until perfectly flaky!

When mine came out of the oven they hadn't gone flaky at all and just tasted like a sausage inside a jam tart sort of thing!? I believe I made short crust pastry, and not flaky, but they still tasted ok!

I hope you guys liked this simple recipe because it really is easy! If you try these out feel free to send me a picture on a social media site, and leave a link in the comments!

I'll see you all soon!

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