Hello. You may remember a few weeks back was National Cupcake Week, in honour of which I created some peanut butter & jam cupcakes. Well I posted a piccie of said cupcakes on the Baking Mad Facebook page & ended up winning a pack of orange flavour buttons which I probably got a bit too excited about. If you're not a fan already I'd recommend joining, they often run giveaways & competitions. The Baking Mad website is also worth a look for all things related to baking & cupcake making!
So they are the inspiration for this weeks recipe, which I created to celebrate both Chocolate Week (last week) & Baking Week (this week) It never ceases to amaze me the number of 'weeks' we actually have, although I feel there's a critical one missing. I think we absolutely have to have a 'National Eat Crisps Week' where every meal has to be accompanied by a potato based snack! Who's with me??
The orange buttons are made from cocoa butter & made a great cookie topping, I also added some natural orange essence to the cookie dough mixture to create the perfect chocolate orange cookie.
100g unsalted butter
140g caster sugar
1 egg
140g SR flour
25g cocoa powder
2tsps natural orange essence
Pack of Silver Spoon orange flavour buttons
1. Cream the butter & sugar until light & fluffy, then beat in the egg gradually until you have a lovely smooth batter.
2. Sift in the flour & cocoa powder & fold together, finally add the orange essence.
3. Place small dollops of cookie dough onto a baking sheet, add some buttons to the top. Don't worry it they look a bit squished, they'll spread out when the cook.
4. Bake in the oven at 180c/GM4 for around 10-12 minutes. Leave to cool completely & crisp up.
Looking at the finished article they would probably be quite good for a Halloween party if you were that way inclined? As my friend pointed out, there were a few of them that ended up looking like something out of the Mighty Boosh, google it, you'll see! Enjoy, Rebecca x
Cake & other assorted food ramblings...
Cake & other assorted food ramblings...
20 October 2011
Chocolate week, baking week, is there any week that isn't a week, cookies!
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20 October 2011
Chocolate week, baking week, is there any week that isn't a week, cookies!
Hello. You may remember a few weeks back was National Cupcake Week, in honour of which I created some peanut butter & jam cupcakes. Well I posted a piccie of said cupcakes on the Baking Mad Facebook page & ended up winning a pack of orange flavour buttons which I probably got a bit too excited about. If you're not a fan already I'd recommend joining, they often run giveaways & competitions. The Baking Mad website is also worth a look for all things related to baking & cupcake making!
So they are the inspiration for this weeks recipe, which I created to celebrate both Chocolate Week (last week) & Baking Week (this week) It never ceases to amaze me the number of 'weeks' we actually have, although I feel there's a critical one missing. I think we absolutely have to have a 'National Eat Crisps Week' where every meal has to be accompanied by a potato based snack! Who's with me??
The orange buttons are made from cocoa butter & made a great cookie topping, I also added some natural orange essence to the cookie dough mixture to create the perfect chocolate orange cookie.
100g unsalted butter
140g caster sugar
1 egg
140g SR flour
25g cocoa powder
2tsps natural orange essence
Pack of Silver Spoon orange flavour buttons
1. Cream the butter & sugar until light & fluffy, then beat in the egg gradually until you have a lovely smooth batter.
2. Sift in the flour & cocoa powder & fold together, finally add the orange essence.
3. Place small dollops of cookie dough onto a baking sheet, add some buttons to the top. Don't worry it they look a bit squished, they'll spread out when the cook.
4. Bake in the oven at 180c/GM4 for around 10-12 minutes. Leave to cool completely & crisp up.
Looking at the finished article they would probably be quite good for a Halloween party if you were that way inclined? As my friend pointed out, there were a few of them that ended up looking like something out of the Mighty Boosh, google it, you'll see! Enjoy, Rebecca x
So they are the inspiration for this weeks recipe, which I created to celebrate both Chocolate Week (last week) & Baking Week (this week) It never ceases to amaze me the number of 'weeks' we actually have, although I feel there's a critical one missing. I think we absolutely have to have a 'National Eat Crisps Week' where every meal has to be accompanied by a potato based snack! Who's with me??
The orange buttons are made from cocoa butter & made a great cookie topping, I also added some natural orange essence to the cookie dough mixture to create the perfect chocolate orange cookie.
100g unsalted butter
140g caster sugar
1 egg
140g SR flour
25g cocoa powder
2tsps natural orange essence
Pack of Silver Spoon orange flavour buttons
1. Cream the butter & sugar until light & fluffy, then beat in the egg gradually until you have a lovely smooth batter.
2. Sift in the flour & cocoa powder & fold together, finally add the orange essence.
3. Place small dollops of cookie dough onto a baking sheet, add some buttons to the top. Don't worry it they look a bit squished, they'll spread out when the cook.
4. Bake in the oven at 180c/GM4 for around 10-12 minutes. Leave to cool completely & crisp up.
Looking at the finished article they would probably be quite good for a Halloween party if you were that way inclined? As my friend pointed out, there were a few of them that ended up looking like something out of the Mighty Boosh, google it, you'll see! Enjoy, Rebecca x
Labels:
baking mad,
chocolate,
cookies,
orange
2 comments:
- Caroline said...
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They look really cute! I think I'd have been excited by winning something too - doesn't really matter what the prize is, it's the winning that counts :-)
Good link to the Baking Mad website, must check that one out! - 6 November 2011 at 13:02
- Meraki said...
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B-E-A-U-tiful!!!
tse.
(canvirries.blogspot.com) - 31 August 2012 at 13:14
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They look really cute! I think I'd have been excited by winning something too - doesn't really matter what the prize is, it's the winning that counts :-)
ReplyDeleteGood link to the Baking Mad website, must check that one out!
B-E-A-U-tiful!!!
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