Snickerdoodles

This easy peasy recipe is just delicious. They are simple to make, keep very well ( not in our household....). Try them and let me know how you went. You can decorate them with dipping them into chocolate if you feel like it.

Ingredients 

1/2 cup butter, softened, 1/2 cup shortening (biskin), 1 1/2 cups white sugar, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoons vanilla extract, 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, 2 teaspoons cream of tartar, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons white sugar, 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

Instructions 

Preheat oven to 200 degrees C. Cream together butter, shortening, 1 1/2 cups sugar, the eggs and the vanilla. Blend in the flour, cream of tartar, soda and salt. Shape dough by rounded spoonfuls into balls. Mix the 2 tablespoons sugar and the cinnamon. Roll balls of dough in mixture. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake 8 to 10 minutes, or until set but not too hard. Remove immediately from baking sheets.

Hedgehog slice

This yummy, yummy chocolate slice I first eat in Colenso Cafe . I didn't put the Colenso Cafe recipe in, as I know how upsetting it is, if somebody spills the beans about your baking secrets :). But this is a quite similar and just as yummy recipe.You can vary it as much as you want, put nuts in, coconut, raisins..... I will give you the basics.

Ingredients:

1 packet of butter (wine) biscuits, crushed

2 tablespoons of sugar
2 tablespoons of good cocoa
2 tablespoons of dessicated coconut
120g butter
1 large egg, beaten
150g good dark chocolate
60g butter

(I use dark toblerone as my chocolate)
Instructions:
- Melt butter with sugar, cocoa and coconut, stirring.
- When mixture is melted and smooth, remove from heat and cool a bit 

(otherwise you will end up with chocolate scrambled eggs!)
- add egg, stir in
- Add crushed biscuits, mix thoroughly (I find I don't use quite all the biscuits)
- Press firmly into a greased sandwich tin (or 20 x 20cm square tin)
- Melt chocolate with butter, and spread evenly on top
- Put in the fridge, and after about 10 minutes sprinkle a little extra coconut on top.
- Leave for a couple of hours, then cut into pieces.

Becky's Ginger Choc Cookies

If you love crystalized ginger, these cookies are an absolute must to try. These biscuits where the absolute seller in Tarte Cafe in the time when Becky worked there. All the surfers used to rock in and hang out on the bar to chat to this gorgeous, wonderful girl and munch her biscuits. Thanks Becky for a great recipe and good times! ;)

 

 Ingredients:

125g butter, 1 3/4 cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/2 cup suger, 1/2 cup brown suger, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence or 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar, 1 egg, 1/2 cup chocolate chips, 1/2 cup chopped crystalised ginger

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 180°C, Mix all ingredients to a soft dough, make golf-ball sized dough-balls, flatten slightly with a fork, bake for 15 minutes. Cool on rack