Bake and Share #2 - it's cookie time!

[JLeigh29]

(Thanks Raupe for the thread title! )

OK, time to get out your best biscuit and cookie recipes for a bake and share day this Thursday 17 March. The idea is to bake something yourself and share it with someone outside your household so that you can connect with someone you haven't seen in a while or make someone's day by showing them that you're thinking of them.

Post your fave recipe and tell us who you're going to share with (and why). Some ideas to get you started:
*your hairdresser
*little old lady down the road who never seems to get visitors
*your child's swimming teacher
*the check out lady who serves you every week and is always so friendly
*a friend you haven't caught up with for ages because she's just had a baby/been sick/kids have had chicken pox etc

Hope to have lots of happy bakers!

[toomanyshoes]

Not sure what I'm baking yet but thinking I'll take them into DH's work.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

What day ladies?


Sent from my iPhone, more than likely while I should be doing something else!

[toomanyshoes]

thursday, march 17 - its in the first post?

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Sorry the whole first post wasn't showing before, only up to:

(Thanks Raupe for the thread title! )

OK, time to get out your best biscuit and cookie recipes for a bake and share day

Wonder if i can find a dairy free biscuit mix i can make, tell DP i want to make them for when we go camping next week

[STARRYSKY]

Great idea ! I do this a lot anyway

ZF- I use my normal sugar cookie recipe but replace the butter with nuttlex spread (or similar non dairy spread), works quite well, sometimes just need to add a little more flour
PM me if you'd like the recipe.

[Lisa]

I'm in for this one too

Not sure who I will be giving cookies to though. I will have to think about it. I might give them to a friend who is moving house with her 5 kids and is having some teenager issues atm.
This is my favourite recipe for cookies. It is the only one we use now -

* 250g butter
* 1 cup sugar
* 1 can condensed milk
* 3 cups sifted self raising flour
* 1 packet of milk chocolate chips

Cream butter and sugar. Add condensed milk, flour, chocolate chips. Mix through. Roll into balls and bake at 180 degrees until slightly golden. They will still be very soft but they firm up when cooled.

This recipe actually freezes really well too, so I often make up a mix, divide it and roll into a sausage and cover with cling wrap and freeze. When it is time to use the mix all you have to do is cut slices off and bake.

[Netix]

Count me in! Not sure what I'll be making, but your condensed milk biscuits sound great. I've made them before I think, but without the choc chips.

hmm, what to make.... Oh! Maybe my banana and ginger biscuits (if not Lisa's...)

Ah-ha! I have it! Similar recipe to Lisa'a I think; divided into thirds; one third vanilla, one with cocoa, and the third with strawberry flavour. Rolled out into equal size rectangles, layered with the vanilla in the middle, chilled then sliced into Neapolitan biscuits, bake and yum!

[Lisa]

ZF - if there are no peanut or egg allergies you could do peanut butter cookies which are easy peasy -
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg

Mix all together until it gets to dough like consistency. Roll into balls and press down with a fork. Bake until slightly golden.

My 4yr old DS loves to make these.

[Raupe]

Hehe, JL29 that made me smile!

I'm all excited about our second bake-off. Don't know what I will make yet, but shall update once I know!

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Mmm Peanut butter, but DD2 was borderline for nut allergy so better not risk it just yet.
I'm thinking i might make the sugar cookies and maybe take some in from the girls for our librarian on friday when we go to storytime.
Wonder what cookie cutters i have???? How cute would it be to have book shaped ones

[Netix]

Just found the recipe similar to Lisa's that I have used: (and it makes about 120 biscuits!)

500g margarine or butter
1 tin condensed milk
1 cup sugar (I use slightly less, maybe 3/4)
5 cups self raising flour

Cream butter and sugar, add condensed milk and flour. Roll into teaspoon sized balls and press down with fork. Onto greased trays, bake in moderate oven for 10-15 mins.
Variations inc; choc chips and chopped glace cherries / cornflakes and sultanas / hundreds and thousands / milo and coconut / etc.

I also had the thought before about making red velvet sandwich cookies... (look on Bakerella for a pic, but with my usual french cream icing )

[JLeigh29]

Wow, the condensed milk cookies sound great!

Anything with less butter (or oil) and sugar??!

[JLeigh29]

Wow, the condensed milk cookies sound great!

Anything with less butter (or oil) and sugar??!

[Mak]

Will do Anzac's here - the kids love them and I manage to sneak in extra oats to try and balance all the sugar/butter, lol! We're off to have a play date with some new people too, so hoping to make a good impression (crazy but true)!

[JLeigh29]

My neighbour 'bake and shared' me yesterday, lol! She has a cupcake making business and wasn't happy with a batch so I got a knock on the door just before dinner (the temptation to have cupcakes for dinner was HUGE! ) and one of her DD's presented me with a batch of 12 piping hot cupcakes! I made lime butter icing and put a glace cherry on top and they taste super delish! So, I won't be making cookies today

[Netix]

JL, you are a lucky chick! So who DID bake yesterday? I didn't bake yesterday, but shared my fruits of labour from the night before. I ended up making nearly one hundred green shamrock shaped biscuits for daycare, since it was St. Patricks Day, and they were having a green day. I tinted the dough a really nice green, but the biscuits were so very faintly green in colour, you could have missed it. Except after biting into them... the centres were green. It looked very odd, but went down well with the children from what I heard.

[toomanyshoes]

I didn't

Got completely side tracked because the kids were off sick from school