Check out the recipe for Play Dough at the bottom of the page!

for our Stained Glass Window Biscuit Recipe!

Ginger Bread Men           

Ingredients

1 Beaten Egg                                                              You will need:-

12oz Plain Flour                                                         Bowl, Rolling pin, metal spoons       

1 Teaspoon of Bicarbonate of Soda                       Cutters, baking tray, greaseproof

2 Level Teaspoons Ground Ginger                            Paper and fish slice/spatula

4oz Margarine

6oz Demerara Sugar

4 Level Teaspoons Golden Syrup

Method:

Mix Flour, Bicarbonate of Soda and Ginger into a bowl.

Rub in the Margarine with fingers when they are like bread crumbs stir in the sugar.

Mix in the beaten egg and Syrup. 

Knead into dough.  

Roll out ¼” thick and use your cutter men, ladies, stars or any other shape you would like.

Put on greaseproof paper and bake.

Gas 5, Electric 190C for 10 to 14 minutes or golden brown. 

Using a fish slice put on to a cooling tray to harden off.  

Enjoy!

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Chocolate Crunchy Biscuit

Ingredients

½lb rich tea biscuits

2 desert spoons golden syrup/black treacle

1 desert spoon sugar

3 desert spoons chocolate powder/coca

4oz butter

2oz sultanas

2oz glace cherries (chopped)

2oz walnuts (chopped)

6oz chocolate (plain for coating)

 Method

·         Crush the biscuits into tiny pieces

·         In a saucepan, put butter, coca, sugar, syrup and melt together

·         Take off heat, add sultanas, cherries, walnuts & biscuits and mix together

·         Flatten mixture into a flat tin

·         Put in fridge while melting chocolate

·         Pour chocolate over mixture and mark into sections – put in fridge to set

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Guinness Cake- One for the Adults!

Cake Ingredients

200ml/ 7floz Guinness Beer

170g 6oz Plain Flour

2 medium eggs, Beaten

290g/10oz Dark, soft brown sugar

60g/2oz Cocoa Powder

115g/4oz Margarine

¼ tsp baking powder

1 level tsp bicarbonate of soda

Dark Icing Ingredients

 2tsp Guinness Beer

115g/4oz Icing Sugar, sifted

115g/4oz Dark cooking chocolate

60g/ 2oz Butter

1 Pack ready-made white icing.

Making the Cake

1.     Preheat the oven to gas mark 4 (180°C or 350°F).

2.    Grease two non stick 8 inch baking tins.

3.    Mix butter and sugar together in a bowl then gradually beat in the eggs.

4.    Into a second bowl, sift flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda.

5.    Put the cocoa into a third bowl and stir in the Guinness.

6.    Fold a dollop of cocoa mixture into butter/sugar followed by an equal amount of flour mixture. Repeat until completely mixed.

7.    Spread the mixture into the two tins and bake for 30-35minutes.

       Leave to cool on a wire rack.

Making the Dark Icing

1.     Melt chocolate then mix in Guinness.

2.    Beat in the butter, leave to cool for 5 minutes, then beat in the icing sugar.

3.    Before icing has cooled use it to sandwich the two cake layers using the rest for the top and sides.

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Play Dough from Stay and Play sessions!

Ingredients!

7oz Plain Flour

12 fl oz Water

1 tablespoon oil

3 ½ oz Salt, 2 teaspoons cream of tartar

A few drops of food colouring.                  

1.   Put Flour, Salt, Tartar, oil into bowl

2.   Put the food colouring into the water

3.  Mix everything together. Use a whisk to get rid of the lumps

4.  Put in Micro wave on full power 1 minute at a time and keep mixing each time until it get very stiff and no wet pockets appear.  

OR

5.   Using a saucepan put on top of the hob and stir all the time. 

It will go like scrambles egg, just keep scraping the bottom and side off. 

(On the Electric hob I usually burn the pan – it soaks away easily, with a bit of scrubbing!)