Showing posts with label biscuits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biscuits. Show all posts

August 30, 2013

Pup Biscuits

My little French Bulldog Toulouse LOVES food. All food. Even stuff that
isn't food...like rabbit poo.

The fact that he will eat anything is fantastic because he considers all
food a reward - even breakfast.

As a food-enthusiast this is awesome because I can try out all sorts of
food on him (as long as it is dog friendly of course!).

Recently, while spiralling through the black hole that is Pinterest, I
came across a recipe for dog biscuits. I thought to myself "oh my gosh,
Toulouse would love these!". In actual fact, Toulouse wouldn't care if I
made him a pile of rabbit poo brownies - he might like that even more!
So being the very loving/over feeding dog mother that I am I thought I
would make the delicious Pinterest dog biscuits, with a little bit of
something extra, for my precious pooch pumpkin.

Pup Bizkits (makes a lot)

3 cups flour or wholemeal flour
1 cup polenta (cornmeal)
1 tsp baking powder
2 eggs
1 cup of peanut butter 

or 

1/2 cup peanut butter and 1/2 cup of grated
carrot (dried with paper towel)
Honey to taste

Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
Line baking tray with baking paper
Put all ingredients into a mixer or mixing bowl. Combine until a dough
ball forms.
Roll out dough on a floured surface until 2 cm thick.
Cut out biscuits using whatever biscuit cutter you have. I used an
Easter bunny cutter.
Place cut out dough on the lined baking tray.
Bake for 15 minutes or until golden.
For extra crunchy biscuits bake for a little longer.

*Please note - this recipe makes A LOT of biscuits. The dough is
freezable if you don't want to make a truck load of biscuits at once.

I have noticed the biscuits go a little soft if not cooked all the way
through. This is probably fine as your dog will not care and love them
anyway :)

January 19, 2013

Audrey Shortbread Biscuits

Hi all!!!

It's been an AGE since I last posted something fabulous that I baked and I feel really bad. I've let my 10000000000 fans down and I hate dissapointing ma peeps yo!

Anyhoo, what's more important is what lead me back to the ol' butter and sugar....mmmm butter and sugar....

I have a new niece!!! Her name is Miss Audrey and she is just so fabulous I thought the parents that created her deserved some lovely treats for doing such a bang up job (pun intended).

So I trawled through taste.com and came up with this recipe which I inevitably altered and sparkled up! (By 'sparkled up' I mean forgetting to do the fork pattern on top before they went in the oven and consequently making the pattern once they had been cooked a bit). Brilliant!

Audrey Shortbread

Ingredients

250g butter, softened
1/2 cup pure icing sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla paste
1 3/4 cups plain flour
1/2 cup custard powder

Method

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Line 2 baking trays with baking paper. Place butter, sugar and vanilla into a food processor. Process for 2 minutes or until well combined.

Add flour and custard powder. Pulse until just combined (don't over-process or biscuits will not have a fine texture).

Roll heaped teaspoonfuls of mixture into small balls. Place onto prepared baking trays. Press with a floured fork to flatten slightly. Bake for 12 minutes or until light golden. Allow to stand on trays for 2 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool. Repeat with remaining biscuit mixture.