Yummy Chocolate Macaroons

These went down so quickly after a really lovely dinner. Surprisingly they were easy to make, and were not that time consuming to do. i got a basic recipe from Good food. Happy Baking :-D

Ingredients:

125g Icing Sugar
1tbsp coco
100g ground almonds
2 medium egg white

For the filling: 

50g of milk chocolate - chopped 
2 tbs milk

Method:

1.Pre-heat the oven to 180C line a large baking tray with grease proof paper.

2. Sift the icing sugar and coco into a bowl, mix in the ground almonds.

3. Whisk the eggs until they are at stiff peaks and then fold into the dry ingredients.

4. Fill a piping bag with a plain nozzle with the mixture and then pipe 24 small equal blobs around 3cm across. Leave some space between them. leave for 15 minutes and then bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes. leave to cool.

5. To make the filling melt the chocolate and warm the milk a little leave to cool and then put around 1tsp of filling onto 12 of the macaroon slices then put the other 12 slices onto each of those and sandwich together.

Enjoy !!!!! 

Character Shortbread Biscuits

These biscuits are really good to make with family and friends as these are really simple and fun to do. I got this recipe from the good food site. Happy Baking! :-D

Ingredients: 

125g butter
55g caster sugar-plus extra to sprinkle on top when you take them out of the oven.
180g plain flour

Method:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 190C

2. Beat the butter and sugar together until creamy

3. Mix in the flour to the mixture and when fully incorporated, mould firmly into a ball so it doesn't crumble straight away in you hands.

4. Roll out your dough so it's around 1 cm thick. Then cut into shapes using cookie cutters and place onto a baking tray with grease proof paper on it.

5. Place them in the fridge for 20 mins to chill.

6. Put into the oven for 15-20 mins or until light golden brown.

7. Sprinkle sugar on top of the warm biscuits and serve.