Shortbread Creams

Work has been quieter at the moment. It is the lull period when customers go on holidays, don't go past the deli on the way to work or don't go to school. So it is a great time to take a few days off and relax ourselves.

Alan and I took a few days off and just pottered around the house and did nothing much; slept in, ate more, and relaxed. We came back to work last week and are sitting tight

Hazelnut and Chocolate Shortbread Bars

I wanted to do like a poptart with shortbread. I wanted to make a hazelnut and chocolate filling and then dip it into my coffee. So this is exactly what I tried to do!

Hazelnut and Chocolate Shortbread Bars



Ingredients

250g butter
375g plain flour
125g icing sugar
1 egg
1 vanilla bean
150g hazelnuts, chopped finely
200g chocolate, chopped finely

Method

1. In your mixing bowl put the butter

Iced Vovos

I started to feel the urge to *create* a few new biscuits again. I go through fazes of creating. And this year I have my one word, create.

So, I am going through all my oldest books and going through all Nanas books again. I am more about re-creating the classics at the moment.

So going back to the Iced Vovos is just part and parcel with it.


Iced Vovos

Time: 15minutes + 1 hour (chilling

Catch up!

We are going nuts at the deli over the last couple of weeks and especially with it coming into Christmas.


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I want to keep house with you all today.

Are you keeping up with our ingredients on "The Mum and The Chef?" You can cook up a storm with us and create your own goodies to talk about with Mish from Mish Delish and myself each fortnight. We have already cooked

Afghan Biscuits

We are really lucky with the deli. We have some of the best neighbours! We have really local locals! And one of them asked me to make one of her favourite biscuits from New Zealand, Afghan biscuits. I love that the customers ask me to make their favourite sweets. I really love trying to make what they ate as kids. I love watching the glee in them tasting it. That is just another reason why I love

miT maT Biscuits

So, keeping on with our biscuit challenge, we are up to miT maT Biscuits.

These are quite rich, so beware of the chocolatey gooey filling!






miT maT Biscuits
Ingredients
¾ cup sugar
1 ½ cup flour
¾ cup cocoa
½ tsp bicarb soda
1 ½ tsp salt
210g butter

Method

1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
2. Fold in the dry ingredients until it forms a dough.
3. Roll out between two

The Great Biscuit Challenge - Mint Slice teaser

Have you heard about our Arnotts Challenge?

We have been having all sorts of fun making and remaking all the biscuits from the Arnotts Challenge.

So I just wanted to let you know that I am working on the Mint Slice Biscuit at the moment!

I am just going to throw out some teaser photos if you haven't been into the deli to taste the testers!






The Mint Slice recipe is still in "testing"

The Great Biscuit Challenge - The Kongston

Look, I have to tell you honestly this is not one of my favourite Arnotts biscuits. I find them very similar to the Monte Carlo biscuit with just a different filling. What do you think? We had alot of requests for this one.....

So, I powered on and came up with these little beauties......the tip here is because they puff up so much it is better to roll and cut out the cookies instead of rolling

Red Whoopie Biscuits

What do you get when you cross Whoopie Biscuits with the gorgeous Red Velvet colour?

Red Whoopie Biscuits

Semi soft biscuits with a cream cheese icing.....yum.



Red Whoopie Biscuits

250g butter
200g sugar
400g self raising flour
120g cocoa
1tbs water
1tbs red food colouring
1 egg

Method

1. Beat butter and sugar. Add the egg.
2. Add the water, red food colouring and self raising flour.
3.

The Great Biscuit Challenge - Hundreds and Thousands Biscuits

I use to love these biscuits as a kid. I don't remember having them except for at birthday parties.

What is your favourite Aussie Biscuit? We might have a bash at making them if you want!

So for the second Biscuit Challenge I chose these biscuits.




The method that I worked on when I was making this biscuit recipe was that I wanted a shortbread that wasn't overly buttery but still soft on

The Great Aussie Biscuit Challenge - Monte Coconut

How many Arnotts biscuits can you name?

And which ones are your favourites?

I was eating an Iced Vovo the other day and started wondering how they were made and if I could make them as well. Alan and I were talking about doing other flavours of the Arnotts range and record one versus the other.

"why don't you try to make a few of them?"

So that is what I am going to do.......I am going to

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Red Whoopie Biscuits......

I have done a "mash up" of Red Velvet Cookies and Whoppie Pies to come up with my fantastic new biscuit.


Honey Jumbles

What an old school fave...cinnamon, ginger, and mixed spice.....better than just normal gingerbread....




Branston Pickle

He looks like the dragon out of Never Ending Story.....(and yes that is our cats name, from the English pickle!! Is that

Garibaldi Biscuits Gluten Free Style

Australians call this beautiful buttery shortbread with tiny, juicy currants "Fly cemetary" or "Dead fly surprise."

I call it Garibaldi because it is from a beautiful recipe book that my Dad bought me when he went to America.* So after fiddling with the amounts for a gluten free version I came up with this version of the buttery classic.

330g GF flour
170g unsalted butter
110g sugar
230g

Peppermint Creams

Everything with peppermint in it, is fabulous.Peppermint ice-cream; minties; toothpaste; old school after dinner mints; mint patties; chewing gum; polos; tictacs; mentos....the list goes on....
So when I found these yummy chocolate and peppermint biscuits....I was excited. And the best bit.....the peppermint has white chocolate in it!
Peppermint Sandwich Cookies
1/2 cup cream1/2 tsp