Showing posts with label cutters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cutters. Show all posts

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Random Cutter - Part Two!

In my previous post I had you all guessing what the cutter was. I'm still not really sure what it is, but I decided that for today I will make it a hermit crab. A hermit crab looks a little bit like this:

So here is my random cookie cutter version of a hermit crab:


Friday, May 13, 2011

Random Cutter - Help!

I was having a look through my cookie cutters yesterday and I came across this:

I am curious about it because I can't for the life of me figure out what it is supposed to be! Any suggestions would be gratefully received (because the closest I can come up with is that it's Alf's profile - but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be an 80's alien cutter!)

Ok I have flipped it around the other way. Does this help?
I'm starting to think... hermit crab?

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Stained Glass Window Biscuits

Stained Glass Window Biscuits
I saw this recipe a few years back and thought that I may have to try it one day. Yesterday I came across a version of the recipe here and it reminded me that I need to try it. I read the comments under the recipe and thought that I could probably make it better, so I edited the recipe and came up with this:

110g sugar
20g golden syrup
125g butter
Vanilla
1 egg
250g plain flour
Hard boiled lollies

Cream butter, sugar, and golden syrup. Add the egg and beat. Toss in the flour and mix with a wooden spoon. Roll out to about 5mm thick. Cut out desired shape, and then using a cutter slightly bigger than the lolly cut out a hole in the middle. Bake in the oven for about 5 mins at 180 degrees. Take out and place a lolly in each hole. Bake for about another 5 mins until golden brown and lolly has melted.

The lollies I used weren't the greatest as they all had a white stripe on them which looked a bit weird once they had melted. These are the kinds of biscuits that kids love...well it is a biscuit with a lolly in the center after all. Adults are probably more wary of their dentistry.