TaNkGiRly 的網路日誌

 Found this somewhere on the web when I had half of a bag of self raising flour and wanted to bake something without buying more ingredients. The website said this recipe is design for the children to bake. You can pretty much sit back, relax and watch them do something that is not destructive for a change. I am lazy to the core person, absolutely hate anything that trigger another singular cell in my brain or involve another string of muscle. This looked ideal to me (using only cup as a measurement and no scale whatsoever is involved). First try during the Christmas holiday proven to be very popular. So now this recipe, along with the chocolate croissant, become the permanent figure in our household.

 The reason I used the M&M is because the ordinary mini chocolate melt as soon as I stir them into the mixture. While the whirling effect look indeed very pretty, Horatio prefer to actually see some chocolate ‘bits’. Plus the effect of melting sugar coating on M&M is also very interesting. Once you get the hang of it, you can replace the chocolate with other things such as sliced almond, chopped peanut, etc.

Ingredients:

 Butter/Margarine                                                                                  2/3 Cup (6 Oz)

 Caster Sugar                                                                                       ½ Cup (4 Oz)

 Self-Raising Flour                                                                            1 Cup (8 Oz)

 M&M Mini Chocolate/ Other Mini Chocolate                                 ½ Cup (4 Oz)

 Put butter and sugar together and wrist until fluffy. (An electric mixture will make your job a lot easier as it is prefer to wrist the mixture when butter is cold/in room temperature. I don’t have the lovely timesaver, had to zap them in the microwave to soften the butter and wrist until my arms nearly fall off) (In case you were wondering, melted butter won’t achieve the ‘fluffy’ result)

 Swift in the flour. Use the spatula stirring until the mixture has the strong resemblance of the playdough (Horatio pointed this one out when I was preparing the baking : “Looks like playdough, isn’t it, mammy?”).

 Stir in the chocolate.

 Preheat the oven to 180 Celsius. Use a teaspoon (this is very important, as the dough will expand after it’s baking. Unless you don’t mind having a bekkie the size of your bowl) to spoon out the dough and carefully placed them on a pre-greased (or lined with baking paper) baking tray. Use the spoon to slightly flatten them a bit then put them all into the oven for 15 minutes.

 Place them on the rack to cool it off. It taste yummier when it’s warm. Store the leftover in the jar.