cookie / biscuit recipe needed

[mummydreamer]

for three year old's birthday party. ....

I want to find a recipe where I can cut out numbers from the dough. Anyone have any tried and tested ideas?

Thanks

bump....

Bog standard shortbread is good.

is there a recipe for that?

someone printed a recipe for cookies yesterday...will try to find it.

By LadyTophamHatt on Monday, 24 October, 2005 11:46:24 AM

here you go...

2oz of butter
4oz of light brown or caster suger
1 egg
4oz plain flour
40z choc chips (I use 2oz of milk and 2oz of white)
1tsp of vanilla extract
teeny weeny pinch of salt.

Mix the butter and sugar together, then mix everything else in, choc chips going in last.

Told you it was easy.

cook at 180*c/gas mark 4 for about 8 minutes or until golden and just set.

Once out of the oven leave them on the baking tray to cool for about 10-15 minutes. If you takes them off so soon all the choc chips fall out of the bottom!!!

This makes about 24-26 biscuits.

LOL, I missed the "makes 24-26" biscuits the first time I made them and only made 12, they spread so much that I basically had a baking tray covered in one giant biscuit...no gaps at all
The Ds's loved that!!!

that looks lovely but think mummydreamer is after a dough type biscuit you can roll out..?

o right..lol just the only one ive seen with cookies in title..lol

from Nigella bites, rainy day biscuits:
175g soft unsalted butter
200g soft brown sugar
2 eggs
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
350g plain flour
50g ground almonds
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt

preheat oven to 180 degrees C/gas mark 4

1.cream together butter and sugar.
2.beat in eggs and almond extract
3. combine flour, baking powder salt and ground almonds. add to butter and egg mixture, mnixing gently but thoroughly
4. if misture too sticky to roll out, add more flour (sparingly)
5. halve the dough, cut into fat discs and put in fridge to rest for 1/2 hr
6.roll out the fat discs to a thickness of 1/2 cm
7. cut using biscuit cutters, put on greased tray
8. bake for 8-12 mins until lightly golden 'round the edges but still quite pale
9. cool on a rack

thank you all - will be attempting nigella's cookies this afternoon!!!