I wanna make some cookies!

apples1

These are the best cookies I have ever made.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/chocolatechipcookies_72335.shtml

Great website for good recipes, just type in what you want to make and a decent one usually comes up.

organic_wanabe

Thanks Ruby, Pink, Shell and Apples. I'll give one of the recipes a go and let you know how I get on. (Why is it that sometimes the "Thanks" button is there and somtimes it isn't?)

jessicamb

Yum Yum

Just made the dough for the refrigerator biscuits in one of the above links with some chocolate bits.

Between that and the 'practice' bonfire toffee I've just made thats the diet gone for this weekend. :rotfl:

organic_wanabe

Just made the ones you suggested Shell, mainly because they looked so easy and I had all the ingredients, and they were fab. Used up half of the original mixture and then to the other half added a few sunflower seeds and a small part of a tub Sainsbury's Taste the Difference mixture (half price 49p) which included raisins, almonds and cranberrys. The tub should last for another three batches. Every bit as good as the ones from M&S and at a fraction of the cost. My mixture made 10 large, thin cookies. The cookies were very soft when I took them out of the oven but have firmed up beautifully. Wish I had made double the quantity. When I wean myself of this recipe then I'll get around to trying some of the others. Thanks again everyone.

Now that I am a fully-fledged (almost) moneysaving OS cook, I suppose I'll have to get around to the housework using OS ways. I had a knee replacement 10 weeks ago so I am still using that to get out of most of the housework, but I have bought the OH some microfibre cloths and Stardrops!

shell2001

Glad you enjoyed them. The basic recipe is great but like you did you can add whatever you like - I think I may try coconut next.

The only problem I find is that I cook a batch everyother day (depending if I can hide them from DH). Must try to freeze a few and see how they defrost.

littlesnuggy

Hi all,

This is my first time posting on the OS board, (my usual haunts are Freebies and the Boots thread in Grabbit!) and I was wondering if you could help me out.

For Valentine's Day, my OH is going to cook a main course, and I'm taking charge of pudding. I've got my hands on 2 of the Flora heart-shaped plates (had to tell him that the reason we have 2kgs of Flora in the fridge is that they were on BOGOF!) and am hoping to make a selection of cookies (got various sized heart-shaped cutters) and serve these with strawberries & cream etc.

I want to make probably 3 different varieties, and only about 6 of each, so I need recipes that can be easily halved / quartered etc. This probably means ones which don't require eggs.

I'm thinking of doing
*Choc-chip
*Gingerbread
*something else...??!

They also need to be fairly straightforward recipes as I will only have limited time to make all 3 batches :rotfl:

I have searched the forums, but a lot of the recipes need an egg, so I can't then easily do a quarter-of-an-egg!

Any help you can give me will be much appreciated, thanks!

helen_caslass

could you not make a basic recipe up and then split and flavour individually

you may need to add a splash of milk to each to make them wet enough to do that with thou...

squeaky

All sorts of simple and straightforward recipes can be found here:-

http://www.be-ro.co.uk/f_insp.htm

Penelope_Penguin

Try Queenie's everyday cookies. I make a *sausage* of dough, then cut off slices, but you could roll it and cut out hearts.

I've had success with ginger (50g finely chopped stem ginger and 1-2tsp powered ginger per batch), choc chip, chocolate, dried cranberry and flaked almond.

The recipe's very easy. Hang on while I get the link...........Here it is. Post 125 in the recipe collection.

Penny. x

littlesnuggy

Thanks for your replies! I think I'm going to go with the 'everyday cookies' using Queenie's recipe.

I'll make up the basic recipe with the butter, sugar & flour, then split it into 3 and add cocoa to one, ginger to the other and nuts & dried fruit to the other.

Do you think it would work ok substituting butter with Flora original, only I've got quite a lot to use?!