I love the flavour of almond in baking, and almond is definitely the star of the show in these delightfully delicious cookies.
Showing posts with label Cookies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cookies. Show all posts
Friday, 13 October 2017
Saturday, 19 November 2016
Double Chocolate Brookies
Can't decide whether you feel like baking cookies or brownies? Why not try these brownie-like cookies!
Friday, 22 January 2016
No Bake Peanut Cookie Balls
Sitting somewhere between a truffle and a cookie; these no bake peanut balls are a great sweet treat.
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Mint Chocolate Cookies
Mint and Chocolate are, of course, a match made in Heaven. If you too love this combination then I strongly suggest you make these cookies!
Saturday, 12 December 2015
Oatmeal Chip Bars
My favorite cookies are always those packed full of oat. These Oatmeal Chip bars are loaded with oats and chocolate and are just delicious!
Monday, 30 November 2015
Vanilla Shortbread
Shortbread is such a delightfully buttery and crumbly biscuit - or cookie - and a favorite at Christmas time.
Thursday, 21 May 2015
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies
These Peanut Butter Cookies with chocolate chunks are my favorite, deliciously soft cookie to whip up in a flash.
Thursday, 19 March 2015
Dulce de Leche Oatmeal Cookie Sandwiches
A thick layer of dulce de leche buttercream sandwiched between two golden oatmeal cookies.
Saturday, 28 February 2015
Oatmeal Fudge Bars
A base of chewy oatmeal cookie, a center of gooey chocolate fudge, topped off with chunks of the chewy oatmeal.
Monday, 12 January 2015
Triple Chocolate Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookies are a much loved classic. But how do you make them even more mouthwatering delicious? TRIPLE CHOCOLATE!
These easy-to-make cookies are packed full of milk, dark, and white chocolate chunks.
Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Triple Chocolate and Caramel Cookie Bars
Triple Chocolate and Caramel Cookie Bars - Need I say more?
Thursday, 24 April 2014
Anzac Biscuits
Anzac biscuits - a chewy, oaty cookie - are my absolute favorite and holds an important place in the hearts of New Zealanders.
Friday, 21 March 2014
Creme Egg Cookies
As it nears Easter, the stores are now full of Easter Eggs, perfect opportunity to get baking! My honey loves Cadbury Creme Eggs so I made these chocolate chip cookies with Mini Creme Eggs melted in place on top.
Makes 18
125 g Butter, softened
1/4 Cup Stevia (or sugar)
4 Tbsp light sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 1/2 Cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 Cup milk chocolate chips
9 mini Cadbury Creme Eggs, halved
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F) and line a baking sheet with baking paper (you will probably need two, if you only have one, just cook the cookies in two batches).
2. Cream the butter and sugar together in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Add the condensed milk and vanilla and beat until well combined.
3. Sift in the flour and baking powder, add the chocolate chips and stir the mixture until combined.
4. Roll out approximately teaspoon sized portions of the mixture and press gently between your hands to make a cookie. Add half a creme egg to the top of each cookie and bake for 20 minutes.
Creme Egg Cookies
Makes 18
125 g Butter, softened
1/4 Cup Stevia (or sugar)
4 Tbsp light sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 1/2 Cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 Cup milk chocolate chips
9 mini Cadbury Creme Eggs, halved
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F) and line a baking sheet with baking paper (you will probably need two, if you only have one, just cook the cookies in two batches).
2. Cream the butter and sugar together in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Add the condensed milk and vanilla and beat until well combined.3. Sift in the flour and baking powder, add the chocolate chips and stir the mixture until combined.
4. Roll out approximately teaspoon sized portions of the mixture and press gently between your hands to make a cookie. Add half a creme egg to the top of each cookie and bake for 20 minutes.
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Milo Chocolate Cookies
Today a friend gave me a challenge: bake something with Milo. I made cookies. Here's hoping that she likes them!
I used stevia, a natural sweetener from the Stevia plant, to replace most of the sugar. Stevia is A LOT sweeter than sugar so you only need to use a small amount. If I was using sugar, I would have used about 3/4 Cup, but I only used 2 Tbsp Stevia. If you are using this sweetner don't go overboard with it... too much will be far too sweet and also leave a weird aftertaste.
Makes 32
160 g apple sauce
2 Tbsp Stevia
1 Tbsp brown sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 1/2 Cup self raising flour
1 1/2 Cup Milo
150 g dark chocolate drops
1. Preheat oven to 180°C and line a couple of baking trays with baking paper.
2. Sift the flour into a large mixing bowl, add the stevia, brown sugar and Milo. Mix to combine. Add the apple sauce and egg and combine well. Add the chocolate drops and mix again.
3. Spoon teaspoonful amounts of the mixture onto the baking trays and bake for about 15 minutes.
4. Cool cookies on a wire rack and store in an airtight container.
Nutritional Information
Calories 59
Carbs 10 g
Fat 2 g
Protein 1 g
I used stevia, a natural sweetener from the Stevia plant, to replace most of the sugar. Stevia is A LOT sweeter than sugar so you only need to use a small amount. If I was using sugar, I would have used about 3/4 Cup, but I only used 2 Tbsp Stevia. If you are using this sweetner don't go overboard with it... too much will be far too sweet and also leave a weird aftertaste.
Milo Chocolate Cookies
Makes 32
160 g apple sauce
2 Tbsp Stevia
1 Tbsp brown sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 1/2 Cup self raising flour
1 1/2 Cup Milo
150 g dark chocolate drops
1. Preheat oven to 180°C and line a couple of baking trays with baking paper.
2. Sift the flour into a large mixing bowl, add the stevia, brown sugar and Milo. Mix to combine. Add the apple sauce and egg and combine well. Add the chocolate drops and mix again.
3. Spoon teaspoonful amounts of the mixture onto the baking trays and bake for about 15 minutes.
4. Cool cookies on a wire rack and store in an airtight container.
Nutritional Information
Calories 59
Carbs 10 g
Fat 2 g
Protein 1 g
Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Cookies
Peanut butter is always awesome in baking and I just couldn't resist not baking again until the weekend (to be honest, I already have my recipes planned for the weekend!) ...
So I made cookies, again. Just using stuff I had laying around in the pantry. But they are totally different to the ones I posted last week, promise.
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
45 g brown sugar
3 Tbsp plain flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
50 g Chocolate, cut into chunks (I used Cadbury Dairy Milk)
110 g peanut butter (I used no added salt or sugar PB)
2 Tbsp apple sauce
1 tsp vanilla essence
1. Put all the dry ingredients into a bowl and combine.
2. Put the peanut butter, apple sauce, and vanilla in another bowl and mix well. Add this to the dry ingredients and mix to combine into a dough
3. Roll the dough into teaspoon size balls and put into the fridge for about half an hour.
4. While the cookie dough is in the fridge, preheat the oven to 180°C.
5. Place the cookies onto a baking tray lined with baking paper and bake for about 10 minutes. After you take them out of the oven leave them alone for ten minutes to get as they will be VERY soft and delicate straight from the oven.
6. Store in an airtight container (glass for crisp cookies, plastic for a softer cookie)
Nutritional Information (based on 16 cookies)
Calories 76
Carbs 7 g
Protein 2 g
Fat 4 g
So I made cookies, again. Just using stuff I had laying around in the pantry. But they are totally different to the ones I posted last week, promise.
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Cookies
Makes approx 16 cookies1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
45 g brown sugar
3 Tbsp plain flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
50 g Chocolate, cut into chunks (I used Cadbury Dairy Milk)
110 g peanut butter (I used no added salt or sugar PB)
2 Tbsp apple sauce
1 tsp vanilla essence
1. Put all the dry ingredients into a bowl and combine.
2. Put the peanut butter, apple sauce, and vanilla in another bowl and mix well. Add this to the dry ingredients and mix to combine into a dough
3. Roll the dough into teaspoon size balls and put into the fridge for about half an hour.
4. While the cookie dough is in the fridge, preheat the oven to 180°C.
5. Place the cookies onto a baking tray lined with baking paper and bake for about 10 minutes. After you take them out of the oven leave them alone for ten minutes to get as they will be VERY soft and delicate straight from the oven.
6. Store in an airtight container (glass for crisp cookies, plastic for a softer cookie)
Nutritional Information (based on 16 cookies)
Calories 76
Carbs 7 g
Protein 2 g
Fat 4 g
Wednesday, 18 September 2013
Butterless Chocolate Chip Cookies
Everyone loves a good chocolate chip cookie. But there is soooo much butter in them that the energy and fat content are through the roof. As I was sitting in a seminar this afternoon (that was completely over my head so it was hard to concentrate) I was thinking about how I could make some choc chip cookies, healthy style.
I was pretty nervous about completely inventing a baking recipe. It's one thing to create a breakfast, lunch, or dinner recipe but baking is all about correct volumes and measures. Had no idea how this was going to turn out.
This is what I came up with. No butter. Reduced sugar. Surprisingly delicious. Seriously, they turned out soooo much better than I could have ever imaged. Think I prefer these to normal, butter containing cookies! YAY!
My handsome taste tester and everyone in the office approved =)
180 g apple sauce (I used Barkers Apple Sauce)
3/4 Cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 1/4 Cup plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
200 g dark chocolate chips (I used Cadbury Dark Chocolate Baking Chips)
1. Preheat oven to 180°C and line a couple of baking trays with baking paper (if you just have one tray just cook in a couple of batches).
2. Place the apple sauce and sugar in a large bowl and mix thoroughly. Stir in the egg and vanilla.
3. Sift the flour and baking powder over the sugar mixture, add the chocolate chips and mix well to combine.
4. Scoop out tablespoon volumes of mixture, roll into balls, press down slightly and place on baking tray.
5. Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes.
Nutritional information per cookie
Calories 115
Carbs 20 g
Protein 2 g
Fat 3 g
(I also calculated what the info would have been with butter instead of apple sauce: 170 calories, 9 g of fat per cookie!)
I was pretty nervous about completely inventing a baking recipe. It's one thing to create a breakfast, lunch, or dinner recipe but baking is all about correct volumes and measures. Had no idea how this was going to turn out.
This is what I came up with. No butter. Reduced sugar. Surprisingly delicious. Seriously, they turned out soooo much better than I could have ever imaged. Think I prefer these to normal, butter containing cookies! YAY!
My handsome taste tester and everyone in the office approved =)
Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Makes 25 cookies
180 g apple sauce (I used Barkers Apple Sauce)
3/4 Cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 1/4 Cup plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
200 g dark chocolate chips (I used Cadbury Dark Chocolate Baking Chips)
1. Preheat oven to 180°C and line a couple of baking trays with baking paper (if you just have one tray just cook in a couple of batches).
2. Place the apple sauce and sugar in a large bowl and mix thoroughly. Stir in the egg and vanilla.
3. Sift the flour and baking powder over the sugar mixture, add the chocolate chips and mix well to combine.
4. Scoop out tablespoon volumes of mixture, roll into balls, press down slightly and place on baking tray.
5. Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes.
Nutritional information per cookie
Calories 115
Carbs 20 g
Protein 2 g
Fat 3 g
(I also calculated what the info would have been with butter instead of apple sauce: 170 calories, 9 g of fat per cookie!)
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