It’s Christmas cookie baking time! Whip out your aprons, put on the festive tunes and fire up the oven … here are 3 great recipes (courtesy of Jungle Oats) everyone will love!
HOLIDAY COOKIES
Ingredients
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- 1 cup Jungle Plus Original
- 1 cup self-raising flour
- 15ml ground cinnamon
- 1 small egg yolk, beaten
- 1 tbs grated ginger
- 1 tbs bicarbonate soda
- 75g light brown sugar
- 30ml milk
- 100g of syrup
- 80g salted butter
Method:
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- In a saucepan, melt butter, sugar, ginger, syrup and leave to cool.
- Mix Jungle Plus, flour and bicarbonate of soda together with cooled sugar mix.
- Add egg yolk to final mix and knead to make dough.
- Roll dough out on a floured surface, to about 3mm thick.
- Cut into shape of choice.
- Place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
- Bake for 7-10 mins or until golden brown.
OATS AND HONEY COOKIES
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups Jungle Oats
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 3 tbs butter (room temp)
- 1/2 cup wheat flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tbs water
- Optional choc-chips / raisins and nuts
Method:
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Spray a baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray.
- Beat together the butter, brown sugar, honey, egg and water thoroughly.
- Sift together the dry ingredients then stir in the oats.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix.
- Add any additional ingredients you’ve chosen.
- Drop heaped teaspoons of cookie batter onto the cookie sheet.
- Bake 12 to 15 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES
Ingredients:
- 250g butter
- 500ml sugar
- 2 eggs, whisked
- 125ml peanut butter
- 10ml bicarbonate of soda
- 25ml milk
- 5ml vanilla essence
- 500ml flour, sifted
- 500ml Jungle Oats
- 500ml coconut
- 500ml cornflakes
- 30ml berry jam
Method:
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Add whisked eggs.
- Add peanut butter and mix well.
- Dissolve bicarbonate of soda in milk and stir in the vanilla essence. Add to butter mixture and blend well.
- Add the remaining dry ingredients to the butter mixture and mix well.
- Form walnut-sized balls. Place on a greased baking tray and flatten slightly with a fork.
- Spoon 1/4 tsp of jam onto each cookie.
- Bake for 10-15 minutes until golden brown and done.
- Turn out onto a cooling rack. Allow to cool and store in an airtight container.
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