C is for Choc Chip Christmas Cookies!

When I was growing up my favourite part of Christmas was our family baking day. On this day we made about seven different types of cookies and enough cookies to feed a small army (which is probably what my family is). One of my favourite cookies to make was the classic chocolate chip cookie. This year I decided that my small family army could feed themselves and so I only made make one batch of cookies- the Choc Chip Christmas Cookie!



The magical ingredients that make the end results possible



Cookie Dough- can you say DELICIOUS?

Choc Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

1 1/3 cup margarine

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup white sugar

2 eggs

2 t. vanilla essence

3 1/2 cups flour

200g chocolate chips (bar of chocolate cut up)

1 t. bicarb

Method:

1. Mix margarine, sugar, eggs and vanilla essence together.

2. Add the flour, chocolate chips and bicarb.

3. Beat well.

4. Spoon small balls onto a lightly greased tray.

5. Bake at 180 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

6. Allow to cool.

sugar HIGH

With exams over I decided to celebrate by making the brightest and sweetest cupcakes ever known to mankind. I was so delighted when faced with the prospect of picking out s many colourful, crazy sweets as possible in the shops. I also got to feel like a kid again when I was piling the cupcakes sky high with the sweets.



The best part of making these cupcakes is when you get to eat all of the left over sweets.



You can decide on your favourite colours, I loved the way pink and yellow look together

Sugar overload: check

Decorating with reckless abandon: check

Yip, these cupcakes are bound to make you feel warm and fuzzy inside.

 

I used a buttercream icing that I piped onto each cupcake.

Vanilla Cupcake Recipe
I used the same recipe that I used for my Spring day cake
The recipe makes 24 cupcakes