Butter biscuits

Tonight I wanted plain, easy cookies that I could decorate and ice. I must mention, decorating cookies is not my strong point- give me cupcakes any day! But these are a "gift" for a friend tomorrow to brighten her day, even if they aren't super fancy.

Cookies:
150g room temp butter
75c castor sugar
225g plain flour

Cube butter and rub into sugar and flour. Roll into glad wrap, refrigerate for 15 minutes, roll out onto a tray and slice.
Bake at 170deg C for 15-25 minutes or until golden brown.
Let sit before icing

There are a few place I could have gone wrong here.... I "roughly" halved the ingredients, and wasn't too picky about it. I used regular flour instead of castor. I gave up with the refrigerating after 10 minutes, and I have the oven too high. Oh, and I may have overcooked. But even though, these are 100x better than the "sugar cookies" I attempted to bake just before Christmas, these are crispy and tasty and I just ate two of them! (Not the pictures ones, they are the gift).

So honestly, try it. Grab your child, niece, or a friend's kid, and just make some cookies! And have fun with it!

Boysenberry & white choc muffins

Today's recipe - made purely because I had berries left over from last weeks fantastic brownie!

2 1/2c self raising flour
100g chopped butter
1c sugar (original recipe calls for castor, but normal is fine)
1c milk
1 egg, lightly beaten
1c frozen berries
1/2c white choc buttons or similar

-Preheat oven to 190 deg C
- Rub butter into flour until well combines
- Add sugar, milk, egg, berries and white chocolate. Mix until just moistened.
- Spoon into muffin cups
- Bake for 20 minutes (maybe up to 30 minutes in my case). Let stand for 5 minutes.

This makes larger muffins than most recipes, so if you want small muffins maybe make 15-18 :)
These muffins are tasty but a bit too moist at the bottom - I didn't use muffin cups, so that might be a good idea. Maybe I used too many boysenberries, I didn't measure them out. But they are nice and crispy on top to make up for it!