Cookie Recipes.

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beckyzoole had an entry on her journal about a LJ Virtual Cookie Swap - her recipe is here .

In another corner of LJ ezagaaikwe and merrymaia were discussing a recipe swap, and then maddeinin was talking about cookie recipes, and so I have already put the cinnamon cookie recipe in a comment in her journal. I am therefore sharing this incredibly easy recipe with you for the Cookie Swap, and as an early contribution to the Recipe Swap. Both the cinnamon recipe and 'Katherine's Fridge Cake/Cookie' recipe are


My Mum's Cinnamon Biscuits. (My Mum speaks European English she calls them biscuits!)

2 level teaspoons ground cinnamon
4 oz (1/2 cup) sugar
6 oz (3/4 cup) butter
8 oz (2 cups) plain (all purpose) flour

Cream butter and sugar, add flour and cinnamon. Form the dough into a 'sausage' and chill it in the fridge for at least an hour.
Pour extra sugar onto a piece of paper, and cut the sausage into slices (about 0.75cm thick)so that each slice falls into the sugar. Place on a baking tray, sugar side up, bake at 200C (400F) for about 10 minutes.

(You can use granulated, caster or golden granulated sugar, or even demerara for the topping.)

Katherine's Fridge Cake Cookies.

12 oz plain biscuits/cookies (rich tea or digestive - although they give slightly different final products)
4 oz (1/2 cup) butter
2 oz (1/4 cup) sugar
3 Tablespoons golden syrup (Light corn syrup will do)
4 oz chocolate - (milk or plain depending on how chocolatey you want them!)
4 oz dried fruit - we usually use half glace cherries & half finely chopped dried pineapple or sultanas.)

Crumb the biscuits by putting them in a plastic bag, and bashing them with a rolling pin - great to relieve any aggression!

Melt the butter, sugar, syrup and chocolate together in a big pan, or a big microwave dish - it doesn't matter if not all the sugar melts completely.

Mix all the dry ingredients into the chocolate mixture.

Spoon into a lined baking tray, or a flat dish and smooth the top - we use an 8" square tin usually.

Leave in the fridge to set, then cut into small fingers or squares - we get 16 squares out of the 8" tin.

If you want to make it look fancier drizzle some melted white chocolate, or white icing, over the top.

This mixture makes really good 'mini puddings' for Christmas treats - add a small amount of brandy, or brandy flavouring, to make it really Christmas Pudding-like, then whilst it is still warm roll into small balls, put into petit-four sized paper-cases, and when cold put a small amount of icing on the top, and a minute snippet of glacé cherry, to look like brandy sauce and a cherry.

If you have trouble with ounces - http://www.recipes4us.co.uk/us_cups_to_weight.htm is my usual way of converting.



To join in the Cookie swap-
1) Swipe this entry for your LJ.
2) Enter your favorite cookie recipe under a cut.
3) Keep the previous recipes in the swap or link back to where you found this.

The Cinnamon ones are the simplest biscuits/cookies in the world to make, and the non-cook ones my daughter has been making since she was about 6 - which is why they have her name!