Thank you all for your happy anniversary wishes from yesterday. I am pleased to say we celebrated with a trip to the cinema as we were desperate to see the last Harry Potter film.
So here is what Flo and I got up to yesterday afternoon. I emailed the bottom picture to the husband at work. Everyone loves a biscuit greeting don't they?!
I adapted the recipe for gingerbread from my (please don't snigger!) beloved Dorling Kindersley 'Children's Step-by-Step Cook Book' by Angela Wilkes and made some coconut spiced biscuits for the main reason that I didn't have any ginger in the cupboard.
So if you, like me, are perhaps not the best baker on the planet but still enjoy the process here is a really easy recipe to follow:
Ingredients:
340g (12oz) plain flour
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
175g (6oz) soft brown sugar
115g (4oz) butter
1 beaten egg
4tbs golden syrup
2/3 tsps mixed allspice
2 drops vanilla essence
75g desiccated coconut
Set the oven to 180 degrees celsius/ gas mark 4. Melt the butter, sugar and golden syrup in a saucepan over a low heat and stir until melted. Sift the flour, spices and bicarbonate of soda into a mixing bowl. Add the syrup mixture, the beaten egg, vanilla and coconut. Mix everything together then knead into a ball. Chill the dough in a plastic bag in the fridge for 30 minutes. On a floured surface with a floured rolling pin roll out the dough to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut out the shapes and transfer to a greased baking sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes. As soon as you notice the biscuits start to go golden brown whip them out of the oven. Leave to cool on the sheet for a few minutes. When they can be lifted without cracking transfer to a cooling rack.
Flo is adorable. Love the apron. She looks as though she's wiping her face after a hard day's baking.
ReplyDeleteHope you enjoyed the film. I took a box of tissues - and used them. xx
Sweet! That pinny is beautiful - and looks utterly gorgeous on Flo! I'm currently trying to decide what me and the hubby will be doing next week for out 1st wedding anniversary - we've left it rather late!
ReplyDeleteoh and p.s meant to mention this place on the post you wrote about making the skirt - have you discovered the Fine Fabrics shop in Taunton yet?! (It's down a little alley opposite M&S) They used to have a remnants room at the back that was always good for a rummage in!
ReplyDeleteLook at Flo multi-tasking with her comforter in hand! My neice has a similiar one called Hetty which she is very attached to!.
ReplyDeleteLovely pictures by the way.
ooh and a new banner / header thing too (I am not a blogger - can you tell?)
ReplyDeleteLove it all! Genius biscuits and pictures. And what did you think of HP? Not as good as the book of course, but still rather brill!
ReplyDeleteHappy anniversary lovely. And fab header. Love the sandals xx
Your photos are just gorgeous and it looks like you had so much fun! Just stumbled across your blog and wanted to say how much I enjoyed reading through it...
ReplyDeleteI have such fond memories of baking with my mum, even though we mostly only did it around Christmas. It must be a brilliant way to keep her entertained for an afternoon!
ReplyDeletePS: happy anniversary!
Fay, you are and ACE wife and mum.
ReplyDeleteThe biscuits are v cool, I bet P was chuffed!
Flo looks adorable! (can't remember if I said, but happy anniversary! I knew you were married around the time I was!)
These are very cool! Love them very much.
ReplyDeleteLucky him!
what a sweet idea x
ReplyDeleteAww love the biscuits and little Flo, we've been doing a bit of baking this holiday, made victoria sponge the other day and my little one loved it. I want me some of those alphabet cutters now!
ReplyDeleteFlo is adorable, her innocence is so striking.
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary to you.
I woudl never snigger at your use of baking book, in fact I admire it. I too would use it as baking is not my forte. The biscuits are gorgeous.
I have that cook book and I still use it, without it and my dad's encouragement I would never have learned to cook
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