Cookie Recipes

Easy-Peasy Nuggles Cookies

Nuggles Cookies, what are those? If you don’t know Nuggles, you’re in for a treat. Nuggles are the Food Lover’s chocolate-coated nuts, shortbread, and raisins as well as sugar-free chocolate-coated peanuts and raisins. Nuggles are made at our very own ‘chocolate factory’ at Cape Roasters. We’ve added Nuggles to these classic butter cookies to make an irresistible cookie for Santa this year (or for any time of the year).

Ingredients

• 500g unsalted butter, softened
• 500 ml (2 cups) castor sugar
• 6 cups all-purpose flour
• 10ml (2 tsp) baking powder
• 5ml (1 tsp) salt
• 2 eggs
• 10ml (2 tsp) vanilla extract
• 500ml (2 cups) Nuggles of your choice (*we used Peanuts)

Method

• Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a large baking tray with baking paper and spray with non-stick food spray.
• Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Sift together all the dry ingredients and add to the butter mixture, along with the eggs and vanilla extract. Mix until the dough comes together. Chop up half of the Nuggles and add the whole and chopped Nuggles to the dough and gently work it through
• Using an ice cream scoop, portion the dough into golf ball sized balls. Space them evenly on the baking tray and press them slightly flat.
• Bake for about 10-12 minutes – it may seem that the cookie is not cooked, but once cooled down you will have a gooey inside.

Spicy Ginger Biscuits

Spicy ginger biscuits are the perfect festive treat – perfect to have on hand in your house for unexpected visitors or to give as edible gifts! They are also fun to make with kids as a holiday activity and make pretty, homemade Christmas tree decorations. Get creative!

Ingredients

• 175 g Dark brown sugar
• 85 g Golden syrup
• 100 g Butter
• 3 tsp Ground ginger
• 1 tsp Ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp Ground cloves
• 350 g Plain flour (cake flour)
• 1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
• 1 Egg, lightly beaten

For Decoration

• 1/2 cup Sifted icing sugar
• 2 tbsp. Lemon juice
• Silver edible balls

Method

• Heat the sugar, golden syrup and butter until melted.
• Mix the spices and flour in a large bowl.
• Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in 1 tsp cold water.
• Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients, add the melted sugar mix, egg and bicarbonate of soda. Mix well.
• At this stage the mix will be soft but will firm up on cooling.
• Cover the surface of the biscuit mix with cling film and leave to cool, then put in the fridge for at least 1 hr to become firm enough to roll out.
• Heat oven to 190 degrees Celsius.
• Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead briefly.
• (At this stage the dough can be put into a food bag and kept in the fridge for up to a week.)
• Cut the dough in half.
• Thinly roll out one half on a lightly floured surface.
• Cut into shapes with cutters, such as gifts, trees and hearts, then transfer to baking sheets, leaving a little room for them to spread.
• If you plan to hang the biscuits up, make a small hole in the top of each one using a skewer. Repeat with remaining dough.
• Bake for 12-15 mins until they darken slightly.
• If the holes you have made have closed up, remake them while the biscuits are warm and soft using a skewer.
• Cool for a few mins on the baking sheets, then transfer to a wire rack to cool and harden up completely.

For the Decoration

• Mix icing sugar and lemon juice in a bowl, then spread over the biscuits with a palette knife or the back of a spoon.
• Or pipe in festive shapes and decorations and decorate with the silver balls.
• Leave to set for 1 hour.
• If hung up on the tree, the biscuits will be edible for about a week, but will last a lot longer as decorations.

Ginger Biscuit Kit DIY

Unleash your inner holiday spirit!

The perfect way to add a sprinkle of joy and a dash of festive fun to your holiday season! This enchanting kit comes complete with everything you need to create your own charming army of gingerbread men, turning your kitchen into a winter wonderland of delicious creativity.

Inside the box, you’ll find premeasured, high-quality ingredients for the perfect gingerbread dough – just add a few pantry staples, mix, and let the sweet aroma of ginger, cinnamon, and molasses fill your home. The easy-to-follow recipe guarantees a batch of biscuits with the ideal blend of warmth and spice, ensuring each gingerbread man is a tasty work of art.

But the fun doesn’t stop there! Unleash your inner artist with an assortment of colourful icing tubes and festive sprinkles. Decorate your gingerbread men with smiling faces, snappy outfits, and sweet accessories. Whether you’re aiming for classic holiday charm or a quirky, personalised touch, the possibilities are as endless as your imagination.

Can Santa be expecting these ginger biscuits and milk this Christmas Eve?

Ingredients

• 1 Food Lover’s Ginger Biscuit Kit
• 1 egg
• 100g butter or margarine, softened
• Extra flour for dusting
• Food colouring (optional)

Method

• Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a flat baking sheet with baking paper and spray with non-stick spray.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine the egg and butter or margarine and beat with an electric beater or a wooden spoon until light and creamy.
• Add all the spiced flour mixture (the bigger bag of flour in the kit) and mix until you have a dough. Shape the dough in a disc. Sprinkle some flour on the work surface and roll the dough out with a rolling pin to about 6mm thick.
• Using the cookie cutter found in the box, press out the gingerbread men. Bring the remaining dough together, roll out and repeat until all dough has been used.
• Place the gingerbread men on the prepared baking tray and bake for about 15 minutes. Remove from the hot tray and place the biscuits on a cooling rack to cool down for about 30 minutes or until completely cooled down before icing.
• Meanwhile, for the royal icing, follow the instructions on the box, and if you want to have a little fun with different festive colours, combine a few drops of food colouring with the icing before placing the icing in the piping bag, also found in the box.

Malva Pudding Muffins

A classic, favourite South African pudding, made into muffins. We all love bite-size or mini forms of foods right?! Plus, these muffins should never be dry, only bites gooey, moist delicious Malva. These malva pudding muffins are just the right size portion for an individual delicious treat.

The question is, will you enjoy these for breakfast, tea time, or dessert?

Ingredients

For the Malva Muffins

• 270g brown sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1 ½ Tbsp. apricot jam
• 30ml (2 Tbsp.) butter
• 1 ½ tsp vinegar
• 125ml (½ cup) milk
• 225g flour
• 1 ½ tsp baking sod
• ½ tsp salt

For the Sauce

• 250ml (1 cup) cream
• 150g butter
• 100g brown sugar
• 62ml (1/4 cup) hot water
• 5ml (1 tsp) vanilla paste

Method

• For the Malva Muffins
• Preheat the oven to 180°C and grease the muffin tray well.
• In a large bowl, beat the sugar and eggs together until light and fluffy, then add the apricot jam.
• Melt the butter and beat into the mixture along with the vinegar and milk.
• Sieve the dry ingredients and fold into the wet mixture until well incorporated.
• Divide the mixture into th muffin holes, leaving a bit of space for the sauce. Bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown.

For the Sauce

• In a medium saucepan, heat all the ingredients until the butter is melted and the sugar has dissolved.
• Pour the sauce over the hot puddings and enjoy with vanilla custard and ice cream.