Chocolate and Orange Cookies

So as its Christmas and I'm currently obsessed with baking again I'm going to share my recipe for chocolate and orange cookie.

All the ingredients are weighed in ounces as its a basic recipe I got from a cooking program a few years ago:

4oz caster sugar

8oz butter (I used Stork)

10oz plain flour

I then added

1 bag chocolate chips

Zest of one orange

Splash of the juice from one orange

1. Beat the butter and sugar together till pale and fluffy.

2. Add in the zest, chocolate chips and splash of the juice.

3. Add in the flower spoon by spoon, you made need to add a few extra spoons of flour depending on how much juice you add. 

4. Wrap dough in cling film and chill in fridge for at least an hour. (I actually left batch in fridge 24 hours and it was brilliant)

5. Flour work surface and roll half the dough into a long sausage

6. Cut chunks of dough about a centimetre wide, roll into a ball and slightly flatten.

7. Put in oven on gas mark 4 or 170/160 fan for 10-12 minutes 

 

What a lazy day.

So it's Sunday, a day of rest so yes after a mad few days we decided to take it easy today. 

James had a nap and while he was down I started making a batch of fairy cakes which turned out ok for once. But as I was getting them out the oven I managed to burn my arm just above my wrist. It's about half an inch long red and sore. Thank goodness for sudocream! 

Ouch!! 

So it's been a day of laziness, football, baking and now bits of chicken are roasting in an onion gravy to eat with roast potatoes! 

Back to working tomorrow so fingers crossed I can get a lot done this week. 

Bread making

So the last few weeks Andy has really got into making his own bread which is so much nicer than shop bought bread and it costs roughly 30p a loaf to make.

This morning he's decided to get me to make it under his supervision.

As I write this the dough is on it's first hour of proving. 

I love nothing better than being in the kitchen baking something but it's normally finding the time to get into the kitchen to bake I have the problem with!!!

Below was the first loaf Andy made a couple of weeks ago!

 

I hope my first attempt comes out as good as his!!!