I have done the morning tea baking on a Saturday this week. I found the recipe with a few changes at Chocolate Covered Katie's blog. (This is not a low Fodmap recipe.) I added raisins because I love them and I also doubled the recipe because the quantities of the ingredients looked a bit small. In fact, I should have quadrupled it because I ended up with only 12 cookies and that won't last us the week. Katie made them smaller and sandwiched them together with a slice of banana in between. If you have counted the cookies in the photo, yes, there are only eleven. Guess where the twelfth is. They taste good, by the way, but don't overcook them. I also baked a carrot cake this afternoon and it tasted superb, as do most carrot cakes. Unfortunately I can't show you it because it is a recipe I produced for a french company I supply recipes and photographs to. Fortunately I made two smaller cakes because I messed up on my first attempt to ice it. It was a layer cake so I sliced it in half … [Read more...] about Chocolate Chip, Raisin Cookies – Morning Tea Baking
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Ginger, Coconut, Raisin & Oatmeal Cookies – Gluten Free
I have finally made the best gluten-free cookies in the world. I can't believe they didn't burn in our notorious oven and I can't believe how moist they are inside and so super tasty with the extra heat of the ginger. These are the accumulation of all the knowledge I have built up over the last months making different granola bars each week. I have taken the ingredients which have performed the best and put them all together and hey presto, super cookies. While I am here I just want to pass something by you all. On Pinterest there are millions of pins of uplifting sayings to make you feel good. You know the ones about following your dreams, live life to the fullest etc. But here's the thing. Sometimes we read those sayings and they make us feel vaguely uncomfortable. Have you ever analyzed that? Well here's what I think and I said this recently in a comment on a blog somewhere. I think we put way too much pressure on ourselves to live life to the fullest - it makes us always feel … [Read more...] about Ginger, Coconut, Raisin & Oatmeal Cookies – Gluten Free