LEMON CREAM COOKIES

Baking cookies equals happiness. Eating cookies equals more happiness. So let's bake a batch of lemon creams together and make this slightly blue Monday a whole lot better. 

Ingredients: 

2 cups flour 

3/4 cup icing sugar 

2 tablespoon cornflour (maizena) 

1/4 teaspoon salt 

250g butter

Filling: 

60 grams butter (at room temperature) 

1/2 cup icing sugar 

3 teaspoons lemon juice 

Yellow colouring 

Method: 

1. Sift the flour, icing sugar, cornflour and salt into a bowl. 

2. Rub in the butter. Knead well. 

3. Roll out to about 3mm thick and cut out using cookie cutters. 

4. Bake at 160 ℃ for 30-40 minutes until pale brown. 

Filling: 

1. Beat the butter until smooth. 

2. Gradually add the icing sugar. Beat the mixture until it's light and creamy. 

3. Beat in the lemon juice and add a few drops of food colouring. 

4. When the biscuits are cool, join together with the lemon cream.

 

OM-NOM-NESS

A guiltless Indulgence- 2-in-1 Chocolate Body Wash+ Body Moisturiser

Smells good enough to eat up! Seriously! Once applied, stay away from chocolate lovers.

This easy to make 2-in-1 product is oh so simple to make and smells oh so delicious.

Use as a bath milk/cream and thereafter as a body cream.
Chocolate right through!

Ingredients:
500ml Aqueous Cream
400ml Cocoa butter Cream
100g Baby powder

Steps:
1. Mix all three together thoroughly
2. Empty into clean containers.

I emptied half of the cream into the aqueous cream tub and the other half it into a cleaned out Nutella jar. Chocolate and nutella. Fitting, no?

I'm saving the nutella one for the bath and the other tub for my dresser.

RECIPE-Cream Cookies

These little wonders make a perfect combo with tea.
They might not look all that tempting, but dip one in your tea and I promise you, you'll want another.

Ingredients:
225g butter
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1x 290g Nestlé dessert cream
5 heaped tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla essence
3-5 cups flour

1 egg beaten

Method:
1. Beat the butter and sugar until smooth and creamy.
2. Add the eggs and beat.
3. Add the nestle cream, baking powder and vanilla and beat.
4. Add enough flour to form a soft dough.
5. Roll out to about 1cm thick. Cut out shapes using cookie cutters.
6. Brush with the beaten egg.
7. Bake in a pre-heated oven of 180 for 15-25 mins or until golden.

Make yourself a cup of tea and dunk the cookies!!!

Enjoy.