I’m a little bit meh when it comes to making sweet treats ‘healthy’. Part of me thinks, “just have the darn sweet and move on” and part of me thinks, “how clever to pack some goodness into a biscuit.” Mostly I think nutrition has no business discussing homemade treats. So I’m defying myself every time I make…
Quick mix cookies
Sometimes you don’t want to muck around making the world’s best chocolate chip cookies. Because biscuits like that involve creaming the sugar and butter for a rather long time. Sometimes you just want a quick mix biscuit recipe that you can whip up in a storm. This is that recipe. It will take you 5…
Apple slice cookies
Do you struggle with providing healthy snacks for the kidlets? It’s one area where I’m often baffled by the whole food thing. Unless you manage to bake from scratch weekly, it’s hard to give them snacks that interest them that aren’t pre-packaged ‘healthy’ crap, it really is. Especially when they are ravenous after school. These…
Muesli cookies
Is it wrong that ‘cookie’ has entered my lexicon? It’s just that some ‘biscuits’ are most certainly ‘cookies’. Pretty much anything large and free-form and definitely anything rocking chocolate chips. Biscuits are nice and afternoon tea-ish. Cookies are nice and afternoon milk-ish. These are muesli cookies without hesitation. They are perfect for the lunchbox provided…
Rather jumbled honey jumbles
It’s a wet, wet day today. I know that it’s physically possible to get out and about on a wet day and, indeed, many families have totally made rainy days their thing. They’re off visiting a crowd-free zoo, taking long nature hikes in gumboots and sailing choppy harbour waters with their faces turned up to…
Chocolate chip cookies heaven
My ‘Sydney Food’ (Bill Granger) recipe book falls open to page 11. It’s the home of the ULTIMATE Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe. I’m not sure where you stand on Aussies calling biscuits ‘cookies’ but these babies ain’t no biscuit. They’re lush, chocolatey, melty, chewy cookies. I hope Bill won’t mind me sharing his divine recipe (I noticed that there…