Milk & Cookies, Yummy in my Tummy

The school holidays have come round again, and there are only so many outdoor activities you can do with a 3 year old. It was time to bake some cookies and I picked Nigella's recipe for Butter Cut-Out Biscuits (i.e. cookie biscuits, not American biscuits).

These biscuits were dead-easy to make. But make sure you have some time on your hands as you will need to chill the dough in the refrigerator for at least an hour. First, you cream together the butter and sugar, then beat in the eggs before mixing with the dry ingredients. (As usual, I used a bit less sugar than in the recipe.) You form two fat discs with the dough, and clingfilm them for chilling in the refrigerator.

After an hour, we retrieved one disc, rolled it out and started stamping. My boy had great fun with this part. We used number-shaped cookie cutters (just as Nigella had done) and also some other small shapes. We were able to cut out so many cookies (running out of space on the baking sheet), that we decided not to use the other disc of dough, but to freeze it for use some other time.

They took hardly any time to cook and tasted really buttery and had a nice meltingly smooth texture to them. Beautiful with milk! It felt so old-fashioned and comforting.

We iced some of the cookies for effect (since the recipe calls for it and it looked so pretty in the picture). But I left a good number plain as I did not want Junior to get a sugar-high and start with the tantrums (which he did anyway coz he stole a few iced biscuits).

I will definitely be doing this again, seeing that I have the other disc of dough in the freezer, but this time, no icing necessary...