It’s a while since I’ve posted a recipe here, so as I was doing a bit of experimental baking this morning to create some biscuits to take to Otakuu’s Christmas do, I documented the process:
Ingredients
115g butter
115g brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla essence
150g flour
slightly less than 2 tsp baking powder*
75g berry-flavoured Light ‘n’ Tasty cereal**
115g dark chocolate
115g white chocolate
* I replaced self-raising flour in the original recipe with plain flour + baking powder, because I always think self-raising flour leaves a funny taste. By my calculation the exact substitution should be 1 7/8 tsp baking powder, so if you really want, you can measure out 7 x 1/8 teaspoons, or just do it the easy way and make your second teaspoonful slightly short.
** The original recipe called for porridge oats, but not having any on hand, I substituted some of MrPloppy’s cereal stash (don’t tell him ;-)), which had the bonus of having lots of chewy fruity bits. You could substitute pretty much any muesli-type cereal depending on the taste you wanted.
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Those look and sound very good to me for ANY kind of biscuits!!!
Those look and sound very good to me for ANY kind of biscuits!!!