Remember how I told you the boys wanted rainbow cookies and a rainbow cake? After our successful outing with our Rainbow Cake, they were quite excited to get on with the cookies.
I was very busy the next day and got home rather late but they were not relenting. This time, the boys came with a friend .
I had saved a recipe I wanted to try out with and we did. The kids were quite enthusiastic about it and they eagerly got to work

I forgot to buy M&M s but I found Skittles instead and used them.
This is what we were going for

But instead, this is what we got because the skittles melted in the oven (I should have known that) and the kids scooped the cookie batter too close to each other.

It might look like an epic fail, but taste wise, it was bloody good.

Well I wanted to make it up to the boys because of the look and used another recipe.

Recipe

•  2 1/2 cups Self Raising Flour  (alternative 2 1/2 cups plain flour + 4 tsp Baking powder)

•  1 Cup Sugar

•  100g Butter

•  1 Egg

Procedure

–   Using the rubbing in method, rub the flour, sugar and butter together to form breadcrumbs, handle the flour lightly.

–   Add the egg so the dough can bind.

–    If you want to add colours , divide into equal parts, using gel colours, lightly add the colours into each part. What I did was, I let the dough remind in bread crumbs form and i used a skewer to work the colours.

–    Wrap individually in cling film and leave it to rest in a fridge for a few hours or over night.

–  Divide all into equal parts. Roll out on a flour dusted board, using a rolling pin, flatten out and cut out shapes with a cookies cutter.

You can make whatever shapes you want. Your just bake them in round shapes. For the cookies with M&M s on top I rolled the dough lightly in my palm and pressed the M&M s on top. Be gentle with your dough, overworking it would turn out hard cookies .

–   Lay them in baking tray covered in parchment paper  and bake for 30 mins in the middle layer of the oven heated to 350°C.

Well our cookies snap like biscuits and taste like cookies. And we loved them. Try it too.

Mango is in season and I think I’m a little obsessed with mangoes. Mango is my favourite fruit and I play with my mango a lot. I make jam with it, juice, smoothies, ice cream, salads, popsicle, cake, frozen mango cubes….

Well this is my Mango Cake. Please note, I lay no claims to being a baker, but in my experimenting with food, baking comes in too.

Recipe

•  3 Cups flour

•  150g Melted Butter

•  1 1/8 Cup Caster Sugar

•  5 Eggs

•  1 1/2 Cups Mango

•  1/4 tsp Salt

•  1 tsp Baking powder

•  1 tsp Baking soda

•  1 tsp Cinnamon

•  1 tsp Nutmeg

•  1/2 tsp Green Cardamom

•   1 tsp Vanilla essence 

•  1/4 tsp Vinegar

•  1/2 Cup Evaporated Milk

Procedure

*I didn’t follow any rules or recipe.  This is just what I did.

–  Pre heat oven to 350°C

–  Break eggs, and separate egg whites from egg yolks,

–  In a bowl combine Mango Juice, nutmeg, cinnamon,  cardamon, vanilla essence.

–  In another bowl, combine, flour, baking powder and baking soda.

– In a cup,  add vinegar to the milk, this is my substitute for buttermilk.

–  In a stand mixer, using your whisk attachment, whisk egg white till medium peaks, then add 1/8 cup Caster Sugar, whisk till stiff peaks. Set aside in clean bowl.

–  In you mixer bowl, add egg yolks, 1 cup of Sugar and mix till it is pale yellow. Mix at medium speed and add melted butter and mix till it is well incorporated. Now gradually add your juice mixture, use a spatula to ensure that it is well incorporated.

–  Reduce the speed and add the flour in 3 parts. Stop mixing after you have added the the third part. Use a spatula to gently mix in what ever hasn’t mixed.

– Now add egg white in 3 parts, folding it in gently till well incorporated.

– Pour in a greased pan and bake in oven till a tooth pick comes out clean.

– When Cake is ready, turn it out of the pan and place in a wire rack to cool.

Enjoy.