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bev00 - 2017-10-23 00:21:00

rainrain1 wrote:

I love baking biscuits, it's almost all I bake, pretty good at them too, even if I do say so myself

Did I say that? What a skite!

rainrain1 - 2017-10-23 08:08:00

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bev00 - 2018-10-22 00:08:00

jascas wrote:

This is s great biscuit recipe - no creaming required and they don't spread too much:
Chocolate Cornflake Biscuits
150g butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup chocolate chips or chocolate drops
2 cups cornflakes ( I crush them a little bit)

Melt butter in a large saucepan on the stove or large bowl in microwave.
Stir in sugar. Cool. Stir in egg and vanilla essence. Sift flour and baking and stir into butter mixture with chocolate chips and cornflakes. Combine well. Break off tablespoons of dough and placed on greased oven trays. Press top of biscuits lightly with a fork.
Bake at 180 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes
Makes 24

.....could you use rice bubbles instead of cornflakes.?

korbo - 2018-10-23 15:56:00

patcath1 wrote:

If they sit in a lump, too much flour. Spread out and join up, too much butter. Biscuits are also better using standard oven, not fan bake.

This. Baking, whether pastry, cakes or biscuits, is the most difficult part of cookery - pastry chefs have extra, special, training. And, more than any other part of cookery, it is a chemical reaction that requires careful measuring and technique.
Which is a long-winded way of saying "weigh your ingredients carefully, practice .... a lot, check your oven temperature, baking position in the oven and timing".
Hardly anything will be totally inedible. You might not want to serve it to critical adults, but kids will rapidly make the evidence disappear!

punkinthefirst - 2018-10-24 10:48:00

My Grandma, who would be 118 if she was alive today, always put one biscuit in the oven before putting the rest on trays. Not a bad idea. She used an old,baking powder tin lid . An old neighbour who was a fabulous cook always said when you’re done creaming the butter and sugar - beat it for another 5 minutes

carter19 - 2018-10-30 21:02:00

jascas wrote:

This is s great biscuit recipe - no creaming required and they don't spread too much:
Chocolate Cornflake Biscuits
150g butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup chocolate chips or chocolate drops
2 cups cornflakes ( I crush them a little bit)

Melt butter in a large saucepan on the stove or large bowl in microwave.
Stir in sugar. Cool. Stir in egg and vanilla essence. Sift flour and baking and stir into butter mixture with chocolate chips and cornflakes. Combine well. Break off tablespoons of dough and placed on greased oven trays. Press top of biscuits lightly with a fork.
Bake at 180 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes
Makes 24

Thanks for this using Gluten free flour and Cornflakes I made a batch of great biscuits

pommyjohn1 - 2018-11-02 07:06:00

bump to save some great biscuit recipes

bev00 - 2019-11-03 00:04:00

Great Gingernut biscuits
125g butter
1 cup sugar
2 tbs golden syrup
1 egg
2 cups self raising flour
3 tsp ginger
melt butter, remove from heat and add sugar, syrup and then egg, mix well.
add sifter flour and ginger and mix well. let it cool, roll into balls and flatten on the tray, cook 12 minutes 160*

articferrit - 2019-11-03 10:34:00