Bernie's Basic Bun Mixture

This bun mixture is my granny, Bernie’s, recipe. These buns are extremely easy to make and they are very delicious too.

Bernie’s Basic Bun Mixture

Ingredients

225g (8oz) Flora Light/butter

225g (8oz) caster sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

3 free range eggs

280g (10oz) self-raising flour (sieved)

30mls milk

Method

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180°C/390°F/gas mark 6.

2. Place the flora, sugar and vanilla extract into a bowl and cream together until it is a pale yellow colour.

3. Add the eggs, one at a time with a little flour to prevent the mixture from curdling. Mix well.

4. Add the flour little by little then mix well. Stir in the milk. If it drops off easily in a dollop then it is ready.

5. Take a spoonful of mixture, with a dessert spoon and scrape into the bun case using a teaspoon. Don’t fill the case to the top.

6. Bake in the oven for 20 mins or until golden brown in colour. Cool on a wire tray.

Enjoy!

Ready for the oven

Cooling on the wire tray

Banana Shake

At last, its Summer and the weather is getting a lot warmer. This milkshake is a perfect drink for a hot day like this and it's so easy to make. Just get some help with the hand blender from an adult.

Banana Shake


Ingredients
650ml milk
3 ripe bananas
½ tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp glenisk organic yougurt
1 tbsp honey


Method

1.           Blend all the ingredients together in a large jug with a hand blender until smooth.

2.           Pour and enjoy.

Polka Dot Cookies

This cookies are from Rachel Allen's Food for Living. They are remarkably straightforward to make. They are crunchy on the outside and chewy in the middle . Cookies would absolutely be one of my favourite treats.

Rachel Allen's Polka Dot Cookies

Ingredients
225g (8 oz) Butter
375g (15 oz) Soft Brown Sugar (or light muscovado sugar)
2 tsp Vanilla Extract
2 Eggs, beaten
350g (14 oz) Plain flour
½ tsp Salt
1 Level tsp Baking Powder
1 Level tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
150g (5 oz) Smarties / Chocolate Chips

Method
1. Pre-heat the oven to 180 ̊C / 350 ̊F / Gas Mark 4 /
2. Cream butter and sugar together. Add in the vanilla extract and eggs.
3. Mix the flour and salt into a bowl. Sift in the Bicarbonate of soda and Baking Powder and mix well.
4. Add the dry ingredients into the wet.
5. Add the smarties last.
6. Roll into little balls (walnut size if you want small ones or golf ball size if you want larger ones. I pressed in a smarty on the smaller ones so that there would definitely be a smarty on the top of each cookie.
7. Bake for 12 – 16 mins. If you want chewy cookies, bake until the edges are turning brown but the middle is still pale. If you want crunchy all the way through then bake until golden all over.
8. Cool on a wire rack.