Pastry Chef

Coconut and Cherry Cookies recipe

Ingredients:
115 g butter or margarine, softened
75 g sugar
1 egg
150 g flour
5 tsp baking powder
5 tsp salt
50 g desiccated coconut
115 g rinsed, roughly chopped cherries
Directions:
1. Beat together all the ingredients. Stir in desiccated coconut and cherries.
2. Spoon large teaspoonfuls of the mixture on two greased baking trays, leaving room to spread. Bake 190C / 375F for [...]

Chocolate Nut Cookies recipe

Ingredients:
115 g butter or margarine, softened
150 g sugar
1 egg
150g flour
5 tsp baking powder
5 tsp salt
5 tsp vanilla flavouring
175 g chocolate drops
75 g roughly chopped walnuts
Directions:
1. Beat together all the ingredients.
2. Spoon large teaspoonfuls of the mixture on two greased baking trays, leaving room to spread. Bake 190C / 375F for about 15 minutes until golden [...]

Peanut and Raisin Cookies recipe

Ingredients:
115 g butter or margarine, softened
150 g sugar
1 egg
150g flour
5 tsp baking powder
5 tsp salt
115 g crunchy peanut butter
175 g raisins
Directions:
1. Beat together all the ingredients except the raisins.
2. Spoon large teaspoonfuls of the mixture on two greased baking trays, leaving room to spread. Bake 190C / 375F for about 15 minutes until golden around [...]

Walnut Clusters recipe

Ingredients:
40 g plain chocolate
50 g butter
115 g sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 1/2 x 5ml vanilla flavouring
50 g flour
5 teaspoon salt
5 teaspoon baking powder
175 g walnut, chopped
Directions:
1. Break up the chocolate and melt in a bowl over a pan of simmering water. Cool slightly.
2. Cream the butte with the sugar and chocolate until fluffy. Beat in the [...]

Chocolate Fingers recipe

Ingredients:
115 g butter or margarine
25 g icing sugar
115 g flour
5 tsp baking powder
few drops of vanilla flavouring
50 g plain chocolate
Directions:
1. Cream the butter and icing sugar together until pale and fluffy. Sift in the flour and baking powder. Beat well, adding the vanilla flavouring.
2. Put the mixture into a piping bag fitted with a medium [...]

Inverness Gingernuts recipe

Ingredients:
225 g flour
2 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground mixed spice
75 g fine oatmeal
75 g sugar
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
175 g black treacle
50 g butter
Directions:
1. Put the flour, ginger, spice, oatmeal, sugar and bicarbonate of soda in a bowl and mix together. Melt the treacle amd butter in a small saucepan. Pour it on the dry [...]

Cinnamon Biscuits recipe

Ingredients:
275g (10 oz) flour
6 x 15ml ground almonds
2 x 5ml ground cinnamon
115g (40z) sugar
225g butter
egg yolk, to glaze
flaked almonds
icing sugar and drinking chocolate, for dredging
Directions:
1. Sift the flour into a bowl. Add the almonds. cinnamon and sugar and mix together. Work in the butter with your fingertips.
2. Roll out on a surface dusted with icing [...]

Cardamon fingers recipe

Ingredients:
8-10 green cardamom pods
50 g butter
50 g sugar
2 egg whites
50 g plain flour, sifted
Directions:
1. Split open the cardamom pods and crush the black seeds to a fine powder.
2. Beat the butter until soft, then add the sugar and cardamom and mix well. Gradually add the egg whites to the mixture, beating thoroughly after each addition. [...]

Pistachio Rings cookies recipe

Ingredients:
175 g (6 oz) butter
50 g (2 oz) sugar
225 g (8 oz) plain flour, sifted
15 ml  milk
Icing:
115 g (4oz) icing sugar, sifted
2 tbs fresh lime juice
40 g (1 1/2 oz) shelled pistachio nuts, skinned and chopped
Directions:
1. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and creamy. Stir in the flour and milk. Mix to form [...]

Molasses Cookie Recipe

Molasses Cookie Recipe

Ingredients:

115g (4oz) flour
1/2 x 5ml bicarbonate of soda
1/2 x 5ml tsp cinnamon
1/2 x 5ml ground ginger
1/2 x 5ml tsp ground mixed spice
50g (2oz) margarine
50g (2oz) muscovado sugar
1 x 15ml tbs molasses
Directions:
1. Sift flour, bicarbonate of soda and spices into a bowl. Melt the margarine with the sugar and molasses in a small saucepan. Pour over [...]