It’s school holidays and it’s a bit cold and bit rainy …looks like there are going to be lots of indoor days. This means endless rounds of Rummikub (if you don’t have this number game, get it soon – it’s great). Half way through our first round we definitely needed a mid morning sweet treat – fast. The cupboard was rather bare but we managed to pull together enough ingredients to bake these great little cookies using the very basic ingredients on hand.
You could follow this recipe of ours but I’d encourage you to use what ever is in your cupboard – just make sure you have, in addition to the flour, a total off 3 cups of dry ingredients. This should include some oats or muesli and then feel free to use sesame seeds, finely chopped nuts, coconut, cocoa, cereals like weet-bix or rice bubbles, choc chips. The handful of dried fruit could be anything you have in the cupboard – we used craisins. We didn’t have any honey so used maple syrup instead although golden syrup would also have been just fine.
This is a great recipe to just let the kids make whatever they want. Quick to make, quick to cook, quick to clean up and of course quick to eat!
Heading straight back to the game we ate them still warm but decided a yoghurt icing would be nice so up we whipped one up (just a spoon full of yoghurt mixed through icing sugar with zest of one lemon – if you have any – if not, plain old icing will just do…) You could even dip the bottoms in melted chocolate if you wanted to get fancy! We didn’t even wait for the biscuits to cool before icing… an important game was in progress!
Cupboard Cookies….
- 1 1/2 cups oats or other
- 1 1/2 cups muesli or other
- 1 tablespoon honey or other
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup self raising flour
- 1 small handful of dried fruit if you have any… (we used craisins)
- 3/4 cup melted butter
- 1/2 cup raw sugar
- 1/2 cup self raising flour
- 1 teaspoon of spice (eg cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice etc)
Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Line a few trays with baking paper.
In a large bowl mix together all of the dry ingredients. Melt the butter with the honey and add to to the dry ingredients with the eggs. Stir until combined.
Make small balls of the mix and flatten on the tray (though if you prefer chewy cookies don’t flatten them). Cook for around 10-15 mins. Store in an airtight container – they seem to last well – perfect for the next rainy day!
back to rummikub!
These are delicious…especially warm out of the oven! Yum!!
oh especially with a hot chocolate!!!
Wow, your blog is beautiful!
oh thanks!