Recipe: Mint Matchmaker Cookies

As Mint Matchmakers are on offer in Sainsbury's at the moment.....£1 (usually £1.99) I have been stocking up to make Matchmaker cookies! I made a batch today with my daughter and her best friend who had come to play. There are many little jobs in this recipe with children can help with.....it involves a lot of mixing!!

This is the recipe....it is for regular gooey Choc Cookies but I substitute the chunks of chocolate for Matchmakers.

Ingredients

50g unsalted butter

450g of dark chocolate (or 225g of dark choc and a packet of mint matchmakers)

2 eggs

17og soft light brown sugar

1/4 tsp Vanilla extract

85g Plain flour

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking powder

Method

-Preheat oven at 170 degrees C (don't know equivalents because I only wrote down for my oven!!)

-Put butter and dark chocolate (or half chocolate if making plain cookies) in a pan and melt and then put to one side

-Put eggs, sugar and vanilla extract in a bowl and beat until well mixed

-Pour in the chocolate mixture and beat on a low setting/stir until well combined

-Sift flour, salt and baking powder into a separate bowl then stir in the chocolate mixture in 3 additions

-Stir in broken pieces of a whole box of matchmakers (or roughly chopped chocolate)

- The recipe says to divide it into 6-8 cookies but I found these were a bit large. Today I made 16 and they took the same cooking time!

- Bake for 10-15 mins checking regularly after 10 mins.

*TIP* Use a non-stick baking liner/greased baking parchment as these go very gooey and stick very easily, even to a greased baking tray!

These are the big version!

Happy cooking!

Fi

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Autumn Walk and Rainbow Art

Last week, the kidlets and myself were having a bad afternoon- we were all fed up. It was a lovely sunny autumn day however so I decided to take them for a nature walk in some meadows near to our house.

I was quite pleased with myself as I am definitely a mum who can easily sit and stick, paint, read stories etc but lack in the 'get out and run around' side of parenting! We just hung a carrier bag for collecting Autumn 'bits' on the push chair and donned the wellies!

We were out about an hour and a half just exploring the trees, a stream, fields etc The kidlets really enjoyed the freedom of running around as we have quite a small garden at home!

When we got home and mini-T had gone to bed, A and I looked at all the things we'd collected. We divided them into colour groups and laid out a rainbow on a large piece of paper. We didn't stick it, we just took pictures to keep a memory of it. If we'd thought about it and had more time, I supposed we could've pressed all the items and then stuck them down for a more permanent piece of art!

But we were quite pleased with the result!

Happy collecting!

Introduction!

Hello!

My name is Fiona and am a mummy to 2 lovely children- a daughter of 4 and a son of 20 months.

I have recently been inspired by many mums who are writing really cool blogs to inspire and inform. I thought I'd join in to help keep my brain in gear and to hopefully inspire people myself!

I have always been a little creative but am also a bit of a perfectionist! More recently I have been more free, letting my children explore their own creativity and I intend to document a lot of this in my blog.

Things my blog will contain (hopefully!)

-Tried and tested art and craft projects for children (some my own ideas- some tested from other sources)

-Posts about the prayer room I help run at my church

-Other crafty projects and maybe the odd recipe!

Welcome and enjoy!

Fi

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