Cookie Recipes

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 [...]

Devon Flats Recipe

Devon Flats Recipe

Ingredients:

225g (8oz) self-raising flour
pinch of salt
115g (4oz) sugar
115ml (4 fl oz) cream
1 egg, beaten
1 x 15ml tbs milk
Directions:
1. Mix the flour, salt and sugar together. Stir in the cream, egg and enough milk to make a stiff dough. If the dough feels at all sticky, cover it and chill until firm.
2. Roll the dough [...]

Pecan Cookies Recipe

Pecan Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

115g (4oz) Plain flour
50g (2oz) Cornflour
3/4 x 15ml tbs Baking powder
pinch of Salt
2 x 5ml tsp ground ginger
1 x 5ml tsp ground mixed spice
1 x 5ml tsp ground cinnamon
50g (2oz) Pecan nut, finely chopped
75g (3oz) Butter or Margarine
50g (2oz) Light soft brown sugar
25g (1oz) Dark Muscovado sugar
40g (11/2oz) Golden Syrup
30 Pecn nut halves, to decorate.
Directions:
1. [...]

Cherry and Coconut Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:
115g (4oz) Butter or Margarine
75g (3oz) Caster Sugar
50g (2oz) Light soft brown sugar
1/2 x 5ml tsp Vanilla flavouring
1 Egg
175g (6oz) Plain flour
1/2 x 5ml tsp bicarbonate of soda
50g (2oz) desiccated coconut
1 x 15ml tbs milk
12 glace cherries, quartered
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Pecan Kisses Cookies Recipe

Pecan Kisses Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

1 Egg white
40g (11/2oz) caster sugar
75g (3oz) pecan nuts, finely ground
small pieces of Pecan nut, to decorate
Directions:
1. Whisk the egg white until it is very stiff, then fold in the sugar and the ground pecans. Put the mixture into a piping bag fitted with a large star nozzle. Pipe stars of the mixture on to [...]

Miniature Florentines Recipe

Miniature Florentines Recipe

Ingredients:

115g (4oz) Butter
75g (3oz) Caster Sugar
1 x 15ml tbs Double Cream
115g (4oz) Flaked Almonds
50g (2oz) Chopped mixed peel
50g (2oz) glace cherries, halved
175g (6oz) Plain Chocolate, melted
Directions:
1. Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the sugar and stir to disolve. Add the cream and let the mixture bubble for 1 minute. Stir in the nuts, [...]