
Romany Creams
Absolutely delicious homemade Romany Creams
Ingredients
- 300 g butter soft
- 250 ml caster sugar
- 620 ml coconut
- 500 ml flour
- 50 ml cocoa
- 5 ml baking powder
- pinch salt
- 100 g chocolate
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar
- Add dry ingredients and mix well
- Roll into small balls and flatten with a fork or spoon
- Bake at 180°C for about 15 minutes
- Cool on the tray
- Melt the chocolate and sandwich the biscuits with melted chocolate

Amy's Chocolate Chip Cookies
The most popular of all the cookies we serve!
Ingredients
- ¾ cup sugar
- ¾ cup treacle sugar
- 1 cup butter soft
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 1 egg
- 2 ¼ cup flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 cup chopped nuts optional
- 2 cups chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C
- Beat the sugars, butter, vanilla and egg
- Add dry ingredients and mix well
- Add nuts and choc chips
- Spoon onto a baking tray (lined) leaving lots of space between to allow spreading
- Bake for about 10 minutes, the cookies won't be crisp when then are removed from the oven
- Leave to cool on tray

123 Biscuits
Delicious butter cookies, perfect for decorating with royal icing
Ingredients
- 250 g castor sugar or granulated sugar
- 500 g butter room temperature
- 5 ml vanilla essence or other flavouring
- 750 g flour
- 3 ml salt optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 160°. Cream the butter, sugar and vanilla together.
- Add the flour and salt and work the mixture to form a soft dough.
- Chill the mixture until firm.
- Roll our dough between two plastic sheets and cut out shapes.
- Place on a greased or lined baking sheet and bake at 160°C until firm to the touch.
Notes
Variations:
Divide your mixture into two and add 15ml cocoa powder to one half to make two tone biscuits.
Flavour the mixture with grated lemon rind, vanilla essence or almond essence for different flavours.
Decorate the tops of your biscuits with nuts, cherries or candied peel.
Flavour the mixture with grated lemon rind, vanilla essence or almond essence for different flavours.
Decorate the tops of your biscuits with nuts, cherries or candied peel.

Date balls
Delicious lower sugar snack
Ingredients
- 250 g dates seeded
- 125 g butter or margarine
- 1 egg lightly beaten
- 1/2 pkt marie biscuits crushed
- 100 ml coconut optional
Instructions
- Roughly chop the dates (to check that there are no pips), and place in a saucepan with the butter
- Bring to the boil and using a wooden spoon mash up the dates until they are well mixed
- Remove the pan from the heat and add the egg, mixing well
- Add the crushed marie biscuits and set aside to cool for a few minutes
- Roll into balls (as big or small as you want them) and roll in the coconut
- Store in the fridge in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks

Buttermilk Rusks
Perfect butter milk rusks
Ingredients
- 2500 ml self raising flour
- 500 ml sugar
- 5 ml salt
- 500 g butter or marg melted
- 3 eggs
- 1 litre buttermilk
Instructions
- Grease a large metal oven tray well or you can use two loaf tins. Preheat oven to 180°C
- In a large bowl, sift together the dry ingredients. Mix the melted butter, eggs and buttermilk. Mix everything together.
- Pour into greased tray and bake for about 1 hour until cooked through. Test that it is cooked by inserting a knife or skewer into the middle, when it comes out clean remove the tray from the oven and set aside to cool.
- Once cool cut into rusks and lay out on oven trays or cooling racks. Keep your sizes even, so that they dry evenly and leave space between the rusks so that the air can circulate. Dry in a cool oven (100°C) for about 4 hours. Check that the rusks are dried through before turning off the heat. Leave to cool and pack in airtight containers.

Muesli Rusks
These are the rusks of my dreams! Easy to adapt to use the ingredients you have
Ingredients
- 1 kg self-raising flour
- 10 ml salt
- 10 ml baking powder
- 500 ml brown sugar or a mix of white and brown sugar
- 250 ml rolled oats
- 250 ml coconut optional
- 750 ml bran flakes
- 250 ml sunflower seeds or any other seeds
- 250 ml raisins optional
- 125 ml nuts optional
- Zest of one orange optional
- 500 g butter or marg melted
- 2 eggs
- 500 ml buttermilk
- 250 ml milk
Instructions
- Grease a large black oven tray well (or use two large loaf tins) and preheat the oven to 180°C
- Place all the dry ingredients in a large bowl. Feel free to play with the additions. Leave out or use up what you have at hand.
- Mix the zest (if using) butter, buttermilk and eggs and add to the dry ingredientsAdd in milk as needed to make it easier to mix (it can be VERY stiff depending on what you add).
- Place the mixture into your prepared tin and bake at 180°C for about an hour. A skewer or knife inserted into the middle should come away clean. Once it is cooked through, remove the tray from the oven and leave to cool
- Once cool cut into rusks and lay on an oven tray or cooling rack and place in a cool oven (100°C) for about 4 hours to dry. Check that they are dry before removing from the oven. The larger your slices are the longer it takes to dry. Try to keep your slices even so that they all dry at the same rate.
- Store in an airtight container.

Florentines
Perfectly nutty, fruity and chocolaty
Ingredients
- 60 g butter
- 50 g caster sugar
- 30 ml cream
- 25 g glace cherries
- 25 g raisins
- 25 g candied peel
- 50 g flaked almonds
- 30 ml flour
For dipping
- 150 g dark chocolate
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C, and prepare a baking tray by lining with baking paper or silicone mat.
- In a small pot, melt the butter, add the sugar and heat until bubbling.
- Remove from the heat and add the rest of the ingredients. Place teaspoonfuls on the baking tray leaving lots of space for spreading (maximum of 6 per tray).
- Bake for 8 minutes, until the mix has spread. Remove the tray from the oven and immediately use a round cookie cutter to pull the edges in and create a perfect circle. I use an 8cm one but could be larger or smaller depending on your preference
- Leave to cool completely on the baking paper (or silicone mat).
- Meanwhile melt the chocolate. Dip each biscuit into the chocolate and set back on the non-stick mat to set. Store in an airtight container.

Cereal treats
Easy treat for the family and useful for structural elements on cakes
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp butter
- 300 g marshmallows
- 6 cups Rice Krispies
Instructions
Microwave method
- Melt the butter and marshmallows in a large microwave safe bowl for 3 minutes on full power, stirring after 2 minutes. Once the marshmallows have completely melted, add the Rice Krispies and stir well.
Stove top method
- In a large saucepan, melt the butter over a low heat and add the marshmallows, stirring constantly until they are completely melted. Remove the mixture from the heat and add the Rice Krispies and stir well.
- Press the mixture into a greased 30cm square tin and set aside to cool. This mixture can also be shaped and modeled while it is still warm. Coat hands with butter to make it easier to work with.

Meringues
The perfect meringue recipe for nests, decorations and even pavlova
Ingredients
- 2 egg whites 60g
- Pinch of cream of tartar
- 120 g sugar
- 5 ml vanilla essence
- Pinch salt
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 130°C. Prepare your baking tray, by covering it with rice paper or baking paper.
- In a clean, dry, glass bowl beat (with a whisk or electric mixer) the egg white until it is foamy. Add the cream of tartar (the acidity of which will help to create a stable foam in the meringue). Continue beating until the egg whites have reached the stiff peak consistency.
- They should be firm enough that the bowl can be tipped upside down without them moving.
- Adding a little at a time, beat in the sugar, a little at a time. The mixture should become even thicker and should start to have a gloss to it.
- Spoon or pipe the mixture onto the prepared tray in the desired shape.
- Place the baking tray in the preheated oven for about 15 minutes, then reduce the heat of the oven to 100°C, and bake for a further 2 hours. If they come away easily from the tray they are cooked. If very large or the weather is humid, leave for longer.
Notes
For a variety of different meringues, you can vary the type of sugar used in the meringue, for instance brown sugar can be used. You can add chopped nuts or crushed berries to the mixture before spooning out to create a few other variations.