Assorted Cookies

The Evaluation

4.5/5 stars: Taste. The smartie cookies were probably my least favourite and the oatmeal and raisin my best but different people liked different ones and everyone agreed that they were all great so yay!
5/5 stars: Ease of recipe.
5/5 stars: Presentation.
5/5 stars: Time.
5/5 stars: Really quick and easy to make and very tasty.

Original Recipe: A basic cookie recipe from one of my books and then I tinkered for each type of cookie. For the cherry and white chocolate ones, I just chopped up some of each and threw it in. For the oatmeal and raisin, I replaced some of the flour with oatmeal and added a handful of raisins. For the triple chocolate chip I used cocoa powder instead of some of the flour and added three types of chopped chocolate. Then I also did a couple of normal chocolate chip as well.
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This was at the beginning of August and I made them for my work crew as it was the last week working at the factory. If you want the basic cookie recipe I used, just ask and I'll type it up but it's also easy enough to find around the web. Yes, I know I'm being a bit lazy but shhh. I'll start typing out the recipes again next week :)

Week 2.1: Cherry Scones

The Evaluation

5/5 stars: Taste. They're amazing.
5/5 stars: Ease of recipe. Very easy!
4.5/5 stars: Presentation. They look pretty appetising :)
4/5 stars: Doesn't take all that long to be honest.
5/5 stars: Overall success.

Original Recipe: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1162675/cherry-scones


Tweaked Recipe:  

Ing.

450g self raising flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
100g butter
2 tbsp caster sugar
284ml butter milk (or get whole milk and add a tablespoon of fresh lemon juice, then wait five mins for it to thicken a little. It's a perfect substitute and what I used ^^)
2 tbsp milk
2 tsp vanilla essence
100g glace cherries, chopped
1/2 tsp salt
Jam and cream to serve or butter is good too
 
Method

1. Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees.
2. Put flour, salt, butter and bicarbonate soda in a bowl. Rub between your fingertips until it resembles breadcrumbs.
3. Mix in sugar.
4. Mix in the milk, vanilla and cherries. Add the buttermilk more gradually until it forms a soft dough. Don't use it all if it looks to be too much.
5. Press dough onto floured surface. Now there's several ways of making these. If you don't have cutters, just roll them into little balls. They will rise but not an awful lot so make them slightly smaller than the size you want. If you have cutters, take a 4/5cm cutter and you have two choices. Either roll your dough to 1cm thickness and make an even number because half will be tops and half bottoms. Or roll to 3cm then you'll be cutting your scones in half.
6. Transfer to lightly floured baking sheet on baking tray. Brush the top of the scones with milk and bake for about 12 mins.

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These were basically perfect. There aren't many left to be honest so I might make another batch at the end of the week. They're quick, easy to make and pretty fun. You can also substitute the cherries for raisings or blueberrys etc. Try them! :)