London Almond cookies with a crunch

THE INGREDIENTS 

• 200gm plain flour
• 250gm Butter
• 100gm Castor Sugar
• 50gm Crushed Corn Flakes
• 100gm Corn Flour
• 50gm grounded almonds
• crushed almonds for decoration
• whole almonds, blanched and roasted
• Vanilla essence
• Cooking chocolate to melt
• Casing

THE METHOD 

1• Mix Butter and sugar with the vanilla essence until light

2• Add in Corn Flakes and mix, 

3• Add in Corn flour a little at a time and mix well 

4• Add in the grounded almonds

5• Add in the flour a little at a time to a nice texture so you can roll it into a ball

6• Flaten to roll in an almond in the middle

7• Oven in 170deg for 20-25 minutes

8• Melt Choc on a double boiler or if you use a microwave, make sure you only use it for 30 secs on high and repeat 2-3 times to avoid burning the melting chocolate

7• Once cookies are baked, leave to cool then coat the cookies with the melted chocolate and put into cases, decorate with crushed almonds, leave them for another 15 minutes for the chocolate to harden.

Check out my YouTube video for demonstration : 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxdNPHU0dlI

Peanut Butter Cookies

THE INGREDIENTS 

• 300gm Plain Flour - (you can replace this with gluten/wheat free flour if you prefer)
• 1 cup Castor sugar
• 1 cup peanut butter (smooth or crunchy -optional)
• 1 cup corn oil (Mazola)
• 1 egg yolk
THE METHOD 

1• Add sugar to flour and mix 

2• Add in Peanut Butter and mix

3• Add in Corn oil a little at a time and mix well 

4• Mix to a dough

5• Once mixed well, form small balls and form a well in the middle.

6• Brush the egg yolk over the cookies

7• Oven in 180deg for 8-12 minutes

Check out my YouTube video for demonstration : 

http://youtu.be/w79HGewurGw