My name is AlistairSim and I'm rubbish

[AlistairSim]

In a bid to have a cheaper Christmas, I've had the genius idea of making biscuits and boxing them in a festive way as presents.

Great, huh?

The problem is that I can't bake/cook.

Does anyone have a foolproof recipe for Christmassy-type biscuits I could try?

Please?

i know its not biscuits, but truffles (of the chocolate variety) are dead easy to make, and look fancy in a nice little box.

Ingredients :
200g dark chocolate
100ml cream
5 tablespoon cocoa powder

Recipe :
Break the chocolate into small pieces in a bowl, then melt over a pan of boiling water.
Pour cream into bowl and mix.

Chill for about 1/2 hour.
Make mixture into balls.
Roll in cocoa powder before serving.

Wow!
That sounds easy, even for me.

Only problem will be how to resist the temptation to eat them myself

Thanks.

i have never had to make a second bowl because i ate all the first lot myself.... promise

ooh, this is a fantastic idea

do you mind if I copy it, Alistair?

I did truffles last year and they went down well.

I did mixture of some rolled in cocoa, some in icing sugar, and some in chopped nuts.

I put them in foil tray things (like chinese takeaway containers) as had lid and stuck bow on top. SIlver looked christmassy, but mostly worked cos stopped them getting battered and was food grade.

HAve a very quick and easy (dare I say foolproof) christmas sugar cookie recipe if you want it.

You can make dough in advance (when you have time) freeze it and then cook when you need it.

Squonk - As long as we're not giving them to the same people!

ArmadilloDaMan - Yes please!

Christmas sugar cookies (reader recipe Good Food Dec 2006)

makes 2 batches of 50.

300g/10oz caster sugar.
140g/5oz butter
2 eggs
1 tbsp vanilla
2 tbsp milk
550g/1lb 4oz plain flour
2tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
200g/8oz glace cherries, chopped.

1. Put sugar & butter in large bowl and beat tog until pale and creamy. Gradually beat in eggs, vanilla and milk.

2. In new bowl mix flour, baking powder and salt and add few spoonfuls at time to butter/sugar mix. Fold in cherries and then shape into 2 logs.

3. wrap each log in cling film - either freeze or chill for 2 hours.

4. Heat oven to 180c/fan 160c/gas 4 and grease 3 baking trays. Unwrap log and use large knife to slice into rounds about the thickness of a £1 coin.

5. Bake for 5 mins and cool on wire rack.

Will keep in airtight tin for 3 days.

If you do it in food processor, don't add cherries. DO them by hand at the end. Otherwise you get pink cookies (my mistake last year )