Hive Top Chef! | Cookies! - A Fourways Symphony

Cookies are mostly called Biscuits here in my country, confusing or what?
A Cookie or Biscuit is a dry crunchy sweet teatime treat and the main ingredients are wheat flour, butter, eggs and sugar.
Cookies can be stored for quite a long while in an airtight container.

In America a Biscuit is what we would call a Scone - kind of like a bun usually served with jam & cream in my nick of the woods. Scones have to be eaten on the same day.

A jam & cream Scone, perfect for morning tea.

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I've really been looking forward to this week's @qurator's Hive Top Chef! | Cookies! as this is my absolute favourite thing to bake!

Variation on a theme - Cookies Fourways

This is a simple cookie dough made with the addition of custard powder to make it extra crispy and really short, divided into four, with different ingredients added to each piece of cookie dough to make:

Coconut Cookies
Fennel Seed Cookies
Chocolate Cookies
Fruity Raisin Cookies

Basic Fourways Cookie Dough Recipe

Ingredients

A closer look

500 gram Butter - at room temperature
500 ml Sugar
4 X-large Eggs
10 ml Vanilla Essence
800 gram or 6 x 250 ml Cake Wheat Flour
250 ml Custard Powder
15 ml Baking Powder
5 ml Salt
Cream Butter, Sugar, Eggs & Vanilla together
Mix dry ingredients in a separate bowl with a whisk
Gradually add to creamed mixture to form a softish cookie dough, divide into four pieces

Fourways Cookie Variations

Mix the following into the pieces of dough:

Coconut Cookies: 250 ml Coconut
Fennel Seed Cookies: 10 ml Fennel Seeds
Chocolate Cookies: 80 ml Cocoa Powder
Fruity Raisin Cookies: 250 ml Raisins

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Roll dough out on a floured board (or coconut strewn for coconut cookies) and press out shapes with cookie cutters, or use a cookie gun to make pretty shapes with the chocolate cookie dough.

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Bake at 180°C fan oven for approximately 10-15 min or till a straw colour.
Cool on wire racks before packing into airtight containers.

Anyone for a cup of tea and some deliciously crispy cookies?

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