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Harriet's Cookies Harriet is eight years old and has been making these cookies or ones like them for more than a year. These days she hardly needs any adult help, but it's probably a good idea to start off with someone to help with the hot bits (getting your cookies in and out of the oven) and the fiddly bits, like weighing the ingredients and timing the period in the oven. If you don't have the exact ingredients in the cupboard but still want to make something nice try using different flavourings. Tell us which you like best. |
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Ingredients To make about 16 medium sized cookies -( or more smaller ones.) 200g butter, 200g caster sugar, 2 eggs, half teaspoonful vanilla essence*, 400g plain flour, 1 teaspoonful baking powder, 25g raisins*, 6-8 glace cherries*, 1 tablespoonful of desiccated coconut*. * indicates that you can change these ingredients for something else eg chocolate chips, or leave them out altogether. Method Before you start any cooking wash your hands, and cover your clothes with an apron or overall. Rolling up sleeves and making sure your hair is not going to get into the mixture is also a good idea! Heat the oven to Gas Mark 4/350degF/180degC - (get an adult to do this.) Grease a baking tray/sheet on which to bake your cookies. Weigh out the butter and sugar into a bowl. Using a wooden spoon mix them together until smooth and creamy. Break the eggs and beat together in a small bowl with a fork, adding them to the mixture a bit at a time, mixing in well. Stir in the vanilla essence if required. Put the flour and baking powder into a sieve. Sift into the mixture and mix in well. Cut up the cherries into small pieces (taking care not to cut yourself.) Stir into the mixture with desiccated coconut and any alternative ingredients you have chosen. Knead the mixture until it is smooth, using your hands made into fists. Make the dough into a fat sausage shape about 5 cm across. Wrap in clingfilm and leave in the fridge for about half an hour. Slice into rounds about 5mm thick and place on the baking tray which you greased earlier. If you find it difficult to slice the mixture you can make other shapes by breaking off pieces by hand from the roll and making the cookie shapes either by hand or using a shaped cutter - like a star, person etc. Bake for about 10 mins in the oven and cool on a wire rack. Ask someone to help you get the tray into and out of the oven, and also getting the cookies out of the tray to cool. If all the cookies do not get eaten immediately put the left-overs in an air-tight tin or jar. They will taste just as good the next day. Depending on the flavouring chosen for the cookies you can add a little white or coloured icing to make them even nicer. Comment These cookies taste good - especially when you have made them yourself! If you want to use the kitchen again to make more delicious things to eat it's a good idea to clear up after you have finished. Wash up the bowls, spoons, knives etc that you have used, and clean up any spilled flour eggs etc. Don't forget to let your "helper" have a sample cookie - that way they'll be happy to help again! Hope you enjoy making Harriet's Cookies - don't forget to let us know how you get on! Page Updated: 22nd December 2000 |