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So, unlike chocolate chip cookies, I like these to have a bit of a crunch to them... They honestly are some of my favourite snacks to keep ready in the house... Yields: 32 regular adult sized ones... I use tiny cutters, so really, the potential is limitless...  ╮ ( ╯▽╰ ) ╭ Ingredients 2 cups of All-Purpose Flour (sifted) + More for rolling the dough out. 1 cup of Sugar 1/2 tsp Baking Powder 1/4 tsp Salt 1/2 tsp Powdered Cinnamon 1 large Egg 8 tbsp Unsalted Butter (room temperature) 1 tsp Vanilla Extract Instructions Making the dough: In a large bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon together. Set this aside. Grab another large bowl and whisk the butter and sugar until they are fluffy and aerated. Using an electric whisk or beater will definitely make your life easier. Whisk in the egg and vanilla extract into the buttery mixture. Now slowly combine these two mixtures. Go at a low speed on the electric beater to get a smother result...

Does anyone else remember the signature dishes of Percy Jackson 's mother?? If you do, you would remember that they had one common characteristic. They were all blue . The first time I made these cookies, I was actually driven because I had just (re)read that part in the Lightening Thief and I was like, "I must have. I must make." (Yes, I regressed to caveman.) Hence- here's my blue chocolate chip cookies. You can make just chocolate chip cookies too, I guess. But do you have to? Yields: 35 large cookies. Ingredients 3 cups of All-Purpose Flour + extra for rolling the dough out 3/4 tsp Baking Powder 1/2 tsp Salt 220 g Unsalted Butter 1 cup Sugar 1 large Egg 2 tsp Vanilla Extract 1/4 tsp Blue Food Colouring Chocolate Chips- get as much as you prefer... Instructions Making the dough: In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside. Take another large bowl and beat the butter and sugar together until they are ligh...

So I have this friend. She really, really doesn't like cinnamon. And like a good friend, instead of accepting her as she is, I decided to tweak a vanilla muffin recipe into this one until she did. I find that cinnamon tends to dry out my muffins when I usually bake regular ones so be assured that this recipe is still nice and moist and most importantly- delicate. Yields: 10 large muffins Ingredients 1 cup of All-Purpose Flour 90 g Sugar* 1 tsp Baking Powder 1/4 tsp Salt 3/4 tsp Ground Cinnamon (You can be brave and add a whole tsp.. if you're into cinnamon and find it taxing to measure 3/4 tsp) 1/2 cup of Milk (room temperature) 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence 1/4 cup of (softened) Unsalted Butter** 1 egg (room temperature) Instructions Preheat the oven to 180ºC. Take a large mixing bowl and sift the all-purpose flour in first. Add the sugar, baking powder, salt and the cinnamon. Mix. Create a crater in the centre of the dry ingredients for the ease of combin...

Crispy, buttery concoctions that simply melt in your mouth.. And one of the easiest recipes! Good choice for someone that is just starting baking. So this is a recipe out of New Zealand that I found i because of my friend in a British cookbook... I often get lazy to be very frank, find icing to be an unnecessary step.. So just a little titbit, the icing is optional especially if you are like me and don't really a sweet-tooth... Yields: Give or take 24 cookies. Ingredients 175 g Unsalted Butter (melted) 1/2 cups of Sugar 3 tbsp of Cocoa Powder 1 1/4 cups of All-Purpose Flour 2 cups of Cornflakes 1/4 tsp Salt Icing Dark Chocolate* Walnut Halves or Pecans** Instructions Preheat the oven to 180°C. Take a large mixing bowl and place the sugar and cocoa powder in it. Whisk the butter in until they are a homogenous mixture. Slowly whisk the flour in ensuring that there are no lumps. Fold the cornflakes into this mixture   Either grease an oven tray ...