Recipe for these delicious crumbly oat biscuits are on my blog post @
Hope you make them and enjoy them as much as we do!
Love D x
Category Archives: Cookies
Chunky Monkey Choc Cookies
These chunky chocolate chip cookies have just been made, photographed, blogged and eaten. The sweet (low fat) buttery aroma has filled every room in our home.
The main reason for making these today is my adorable 4 year old nephew. I just had to treat him!
Hope you all enjoy them…Have a wonderful day! Much love, D x
INGREDIENTS
300g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
120g soft brown sugar
150g low fat butter spread
2 eggs
1 packet chocolate chips
METHOD
Preheat the oven to 180°c. Line two baking trays with greaseproof paper
Take all ingredients apart from the chocolate chips and combine well in a food processor or large mixing bowl
Fold in the chocolate chips. Roll one large heaped tablespoon of cookie dough into a ball and gently flatten after placing on the baking tray
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until golden brown in colour
The Christmas Bake Off…Final 5!
The Christmas bake off competition for winning the Tefal Optigrill is closed! It is now up to YOU to help choose the WINNER!!!
The final five entries have been chosen. You will be able to vote over @ Sharing Food With Shivaay Delights
Come on over and like the picture of the bake you wish to win!
I’m so excited…Results will be announced in 24 hours! Good luck to all our entrants!
And thank you to all that participated!
Let’s vote friends x
See you there!…love D x
The Christmas Baking Competition @ ShivaayDelights
The Christmas Competition on Shivaay Delights starts Today..Inconjuction with Tefal UK who are kindly awarding the winner a new sleek black Tefal Optigrill!
http://www.tefal.co.uk/Cooking-appliances/Grills/OPTIGRILL-Black/p/7211001633
The COMPETITION is to BAKE CHRISTMAS DELIGHTS. You choose whether you’ll be baking cakes or cookies but it has to be Christmas based. The competition is open to UK residents only…sorry friends abroad!
How to enter…
Please send your own entry pictures to ShivaayDelights@gmail.com. The competition will be running from Monday 1st December to Monday 8th December 2014
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We will be choosing the top 5 entries, that will then, go to an open vote for all Shivaay Delights friends @ The Facebook Group “Sharing Food With Shivaay Delights” who will choose the final winner and this lucky person will be announced on 11th December 2014
Rules & Regulations
The competition is open to residents of the UK aged 18 years or over, excluding employees and their immediate families (defined as parents, siblings, children & spouse regardless of where they live) of Tefal, its affiliated companies, their agents or anyone professionally connected with this promotion.
There will be no cash or other alternative to stated prize. The prize is non-transferable and non-refundable. Only one prize per winner per household.
I can’t wait to see what all of you bake. Please feel free to send me pictures even if you’re not in the UK as I will showcase all on the blog here!
Let’s start Baking!!! Happy festivities all!!!
Chewy Ginger Stem Cookies
My nearly 4 year old has a really bad cold so I thought the best remedy would be to give him some ginger! So ginger went into his lentil dal and ginger went into the delicious yummy sweet ginger stem cookies.
I adapted the recipe from Ina, The Barefoot Contessa and decided to warm things up with some mixed spice. The gentle heat of the spice along with the sweetness of the maple syrup makes for a delightful combination. Crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside. An awesome treat any day of the week but even more so when you’re unwell!
I hope you enjoy these, have a gorgeous day! Much love, D x
INGREDIENTS
2½ cups plain flour
1 tsp baking soda
3 tsp mixed spice
¼ tsp salt
½ tsp ground ginger
1 cup dark brown sugar
¼ cup sunflower/vegetable oil
¼ cup maple syrup/honey
1 large egg
1 cup crystallized ginger
Sugar for rolling cookies
Oil to roll
METHOD
Preheat oven to 180°c and line 2 baking trays with some grease proof paper
Sift all the dry ingredients together and set aside
In a mixer on a medium speed, whizz the brown sugar, oil and maple syrup for 5 minutes
Add the egg and reduce the speed to low, mix for 1 minute
Slowly add the dry flour mixture into the mixer. This in turn should form a sticky soft pliable cookie dough. You may need to throw in a bit more flour, also stir in thr crystallized ginger
Grease the palm of your hands with a little oil, take a tbsp of cookie dough. Roll into a ball and then pat down to flatten into a 4-5 cm disk
Place in the oven for 13 minutes and remove to cool on a wiring rack
Repeat for the rest of the dough. The cookies will get crunchier as they cool down but will remain chewy inside
Chocolate, Hazelnut & Coffee Crackle Cookies
These are awesome by my very talented friend Suchit Save! Can you please send me over a batch? Thank you!….
To cookie or not to cookie… 😀
For a while now I’ve been having some serious cravings for cookies ever since my dear friend Saloni posted her oh-so decadent creation on Facebook a few days ago. Ah, ’em beauties! I had to bake a batch and pronto… I always have this urge to cook/bake when I see something that divine looking. Well, it sure did the trick I guess. Cause there I was, back at the drawing board trying to design the perfect cookie that would not only be visually appealing but also have a nice flavor combination. The latter was a no-brainer really. There had to be chocolate. Why would someone bake cookies without chocolate?
A crime, if there wasn’t any chocolate! 😛 A quintessential ingredient for all cookies awesome! 😀
For that crunch, I knew for a fact that none other than Hazelnuts would make the cut. And to bring…
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Chocolate Chip & Sweet Cookies
I had butter, sugar and chocolate chips….sooooo these soft, crumbly golden brown cookies came about. My 3 year old and husband were over the moon. The only thing was that they were so soft that they kept crumbling and my little one loves eating things that are whole! So it turned into a bit of a saga! Lol!
Nevertheless he still gobbled them up! I hope you all enjoy them as much as we did!
INGREDIENTS
350g plain flour
150g soft brown sugar
200g low fat butter
2 tsp baking powder
2 eggs
150g chocolate chips
100g M&M’s
METHOD
Preheat the oven to 180°c. Line a baking tray
Mix the flour, sugar, butter, baking powder, eggs til combined
Add in the chocolate chips and M&M’s
Using a spoon, place a heaped tablespoon of cookie dough on the baking tray, spacing them apart as they will spread when baked
Bake for 20 minutes until soft anf golden. Gently place on a cooling rack
Make a cup of tea…grab a cookie and sit back, enjoy!
Chocolate Muesli Cookies
I bought some “Luxurious Chocolate Muesli” from the supermarket for breakfast and there is so much of it! That I thought it would make a great base for a cookie. It already has rolled oats, toasted malt wheat flakes, milk chocolate curls, raisins, sultanas, nibbed hazelnuts and flaked almonds.
So it was just a matter of combining these yummy ingredients with some even yummier cookie ingredients and forming these cookies, that turned out really awesome! Even though I say so myself!! So crispy, crunchy yet a chewy cookie. I added less sugar than in a normal cookie recipe as the raisins and sultanas provide a natural sweetness.
The toasted malt wheat flakes and nuts really add to the texture of this cookie. Ideal anytime of the day but also can be eaten as a breakfast muesli cookie! I really you hope you all enjoy them as much as we do. One even made it’s way into Cookie Monster’s mouth courtesy of my little one! 🙂
Have a stunning day, much love D x
INGREDIENTS
220g self raising flour
200g chocolate muesli mix
130g granulated sugar
1 heaped tbsp cocoa powder
1 tbsp maple syrup
180g butter melted
2 tbsp sunflower oil
1 tbsp hot water
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
METHOD
• Preheat the oven to 180°c, grease and line 2 baking trays
• In a large mixing bowl or food processor combine all the dry ingredients apart from the bicarbonate of soda. Mix in the oil
• Heat up the butter and syrup on a low heat. Once melted add the water then the bicarbonate of soda. Stir, it will start to bubble and fizz a little
• Pour this hot butter mixture into the biscuit crumbs. All the ingredients will come together
• Take a little mixture and gently form into a ball, pat down with your palm making the ball into a disk of 3-4 cm
• Place a few on a tray. Keep them apart from each other as the cookies will spread when baked
• Bake for 12-15 minutes. Leave the cookies in the tray to cool down as they will be soft initially. Once they start to cool they will become crunchy. Transfer to a cooling rack
Sharing Food On Shivaay Delights
This week I will be selecting and sharing wonderful fellow food blogger friends’ recipes. There are so many talented cooks out there and I am inspired every time I go online. I hardly own a lot of recipe books especially as I have always relied on fantastic food blogging recipes, from when I started to explore my passion for cooking and baking.
Keep an eye out here all this week! You may be featured on Shivaay Delights! Enjoy your day! Much love, D x
Monday’s recipe comes from
I came across Ainsley’s food blog at the weekend. It was her whole wheat chocolate chip cookies that lured me in to have a look
Golden, chunky chocolate chip cookies, I can’t wait to bake these recipe here!
No Bake Cocoa Nut Cookies
Don’t you just love when you give something really healthy to your children. Makes up for all the naughty snacks and foods they some how seem to get their hands on!
With this recipe both parent and child will be soooo happy! I can guarantee this, as this is how I felt yesterday when I made these no bake cookies!
Mine have already disappeared from the fridge mysteriously!! So another batch is about to be made, especially as I promised to take some over to Angie’s Fiesta Friday Party!
Have a beautiful weekend friends! Much love D x
INGREDIENTS
2 large handfuls of macadamia nuts
3~4 handfuls of pitted dates
1 tbsp maple syrup
1 tbsp sunflower oil
1 heaped tbsp cocoa powder
White chocolate melted
METHOD
Add all the ingredients into a food processor and grind to a slightly grainy paste
Take a large pinch of the sweet mixture, form into a ball and then pat down into a small bite
size cookie
Take a little of the melted white chocolate and drizzle all over the prepared cookies
Chill in the fridge for 30 minutes or so then devour!
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