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Egg-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Egg-free Chocolate Chip Cookies- soft, chewy, chocolate chip cookies with no eggs required. Very easy to make- a great solution for those who can't eat eggs or when you just don't have any eggs to hand. Jump to Recipe I'm obviously a bit obsessed by eggs and baking at the moment. I recently published a round up of recipes that only need one egg and now here I am with an egg-free cookie recipe! This recipe was born out of a situation where I wanted to take cookies to a friend who had just had a baby, but I realised at the last moment that I didn't have any eggs left. This happens to me all the time, but I normally have time to nip to the shops. Not this time... I thought about egg substitutes I could use, and decided, that as eggs in a cookie mainly provide the moisture and bind the dough together, milk would work. The resulting cookies, have a very slightly different texture, are just a little bit more fragile and only go slightly golden. They hold together well, espec...

13 Baking Recipes that Only Need One Egg

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10 Baking Recipes that only need one egg- whenever you get that baking urge, or you need something sweet, and one egg is all you have, these recipes are just what you need! I can't tell you how often I get the urge to bake something, go to find the ingredients and discover that I only have one egg. I then usually do a bit of searching online, get frustrated that I can't find anything and end up not baking at all. But now that I have this amazing list of one egg recipes, I can bake away to my heart's content with my one egg! Why do we need eggs in baking? Eggs are so important in baking- essentially they give the bake good structure and add moisture. Eve more importantly, the yolk of the egg helps bind ingredients together stop them from separating or splitting. Can you replace eggs in baking? Yes you can, many people with egg allergies or who are following a vegan diet, do this all the time. If you're doing it because you've just run out of eggs, be aware that the...

Valentine's Treats

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Valentine's Day Treat and Dessert Recipes- a round up of 10 valentine's Day recipes I have rounded up 10 delicious, Valentine's Day treat recipes from fellow food bloggers, that are perfect for finishing off your meal, sending into school or making with the kids. If you need a Valentine's Day treat or dessert idea, you're sure to find one on this list. Read on!

Valentine's Choc-Chip Shortbread Biscuits

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Valentine's Day Chocolate Chip Shortbread Biscuits- heart-shaped shortbread biscuits, filled with chocolate chips and covered in melted chocolate. Valentine's Day is just around the corner, so get ready to see hearts and flowers everywhere (if you haven't already!) This year, I am doing a Valentine's Day collaborative post with Danielle from Welcome 2 My Jungle with a focus on Valentine's baking for kids. One of the easiest baking ideas to do with children is shortbread. It's very simple, only has 3 main ingedients, lends itself to small hands joining in and always turns out well. More importantly, shortbread is buttery and delicious! All the best biscuits come from the UK, in my totally unbiased opinion, and shortbread is number one. For this Valentine's version of shortbread biscuits, I added chocolate chips and then dipped the tops of the biscuits in dark chocolate. I finished them off with pink and white sprinkles because, for kids, sprinkles are essent...

Orange and Almond Cookies

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I have been trying to expand my biscuit repertoire for some time, instead of always making Chocolate Chip Cookies ! I had some flaked almonds left over from making a bakewell tart but I wasn't sure what flavour to put them with in a biscuit. After a bit of pondering, I decided orange would be a good match, as long as it wasn't too sharp. I used orange curd to get a more mellow flavour and it was a lovely combination, just enough orange flavour without drowning out the almonds. Plus, orange is just a little bit Christmassy, so Orange and Almond Cookies are lovely for this time of year. These are the soft, chewy cookie type of biscuit but you do get a bit of crunch from the almond flakes. If you wanted even more crunch, you could use whole almonds chopped up instead.

How to make Viennese Whirls

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If you watched the Great British Bake Off last week, you'll have seen the group of bakers tackling Viennese Whirls with mixed results. I watched them myself, thinking that it looked pretty difficult. Actually, they are fairly easy if you tackle them with confidence! In today's post, I am going to show you how I got on with making Viennese Whirls using a slightly adapted recipe from The Hairy Bikers and give you some top tips for trying it yourself. So, if you are wondering how to make Viennese Whirls and want to have a go, keep reading! Viennese Whirls are an entirely British creation that get their name from being inspired by Austrian pastries. They are biscuits, very similar to shortbread but with a much lighter texture. What makes them distinctive is the fact that they are piped biscuits in a swirl pattern, which are then filled with buttercream and jam. Usually the jam is strawberry, but you can use whatever your favourite is. I made half with strawberry and half with blac...

Coconut Oat Cookies

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Coconut Oat Cookies- soft chewy cookies filled with coconut and oats. Quick and easy recipe to make. Jump to Recipe I have been going through a bit of a coconut phase the last few months. Having not eaten it for a very long time, I am back into it and absolutely loving it now. The Coconut Oat Cookies should be that perfect combo of crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle. The key to that is in how long you bake them; too little and they will be a bit floppy and cakey, too long and they will be hard. If you can, it helps to spoon out fairly uniform sizes of cookie dough onto the baking sheet. It's a fairly firm dough, due to the inclusion of the additional dry ingredients of oats and coconut, so it doesn't spread an enormous amount unlike most American style cookies. That means that it's better not to leave the dough as golf-ball shaped lumps on the cookie sheet when you put them in the oven. Instead, try to flatten the dough down with the back of the spoon so you get...

Chocolate-Covered Heart Biscuits

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Chocolate Covered Heart Sugar Biscuits- Valentine's sugar biscuits that hold their shape, dipped in chocolate. Perfect for Valentine's gifts. If you're looking for a last-minute Valentine's gift or something nice to make with your children for the day, try these chocolate-covered heart biscuits. they are easy and they look effective when you're done. I used my Christmas biscuit recipe (find it Christmas Sugar Cookie Recipe ), as it's important for the biscuits to hold their shape. I got the biscuit cutters from M&S and away I went!

Oat and Raisin Biscuits

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I tend not to buy biscuits very often for home, but at work, I always want one with my cup of tea. Unfortunately, our staff room is always full of them! Oaty biscuits like hobnobs are my favourites, so I thought I would make something along those lines today.