Chocolate Chip Banana Cookies

With Compliment from The Divine Cookbook everyday cooking, I love to be more adventous sometime but with limited ingredients, I have learn to keep using the same ingredient but different receipes!

These cookies are very easy and fast to make. It make an excellent clean mess and fuss free to let the little baker try.
Not only they are tasty, the banana smell can fill the jar with the bbbbb smell!

Ingredients
1 Cup of butter (225 g) Softened
1 cup of sugar (Brown)
1 cup of banana - at least abt 2 large bananas - mashed
2 cups of all purpose flour (**)
1/2 tsp of salt (**)
1 tsp baking soda (**)
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Instructions
Preheat the oven at 180'c
Lightly grease  cookies sheets 
Cream the butter and sugar till fluffy and light - about 4-5 mins
Add mashed banana and beat for another 2-3 mins
sift the flour (**) and salt, baking soda into the mixture and mix and stir.
Stir in chocolate chips

Drop by a tablespoon each of the mixture on the cookies sheet
Bake for 12-15 mins or until lightly browned and set but still soft

Chocolate-Chip melts with Butter Cake

So moist that I love to enjoy my buttery cake with a cup of coffee on a raining day, of course.
Definately bright up your life and mood!

This is a very simple cake recipe with compliment from my little baker to assist in placing and decorating.

What a nice quote that I love to read every moment to think
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. 
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity."

Xmas Gingerbread man

I have been so tempted to grab a new oven after waving good bye to my old over-used 8 years old oven.
Gone finally and after waiting for my little baker to be more sensible to understand simple instructions, at last we got her involvement into baking with me

We did a pre-xmas gingerbread man. The old fairy tales and songs about Gingerbread man. 
This recipe is easy mix except with a lot of assistance from helper to help the little baker to co-ordinate the cutting edge of the gingerbread man.

These gingerbread men are both fun and easy to make, and, what's more, the kids will love them!



Preparation Time
15       minutes

Cooking Time
10 minutes

Makes
20

Ingredients
Melted butter, to grease
125g butter, at room temperature
100g (1/2 cup, firmly packed) brown sugar
125ml (1/2 cup) golden syrup
1 egg, separated
375g (2 1/2 cups) plain flour
1 tbs ground ginger
1 tsp mixed spice
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Plain flour, to dust
150g (1 cup) pure icing sugar, sifted
8-10 drops red liquid food colouring
8-10 drops green liquid food colouring
Smarties, to decorate

Method
Preheat oven to 180°C. Brush 2 baking trays with melted butter to lightly grease.
Use an electric beater to beat the butter and sugar in a bowl until pale and creamy. 
Add the golden syrup and egg yolk and beat until combined. 
Stir in the flour, ginger, mixed spice and bicarbonate of soda. Turn onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth. Press dough into a disc. Cover with plastic wrap and place in the fridge for 30 minutes to rest.
Meanwhile, place egg white in a clean, dry bowl. Use an electric beater to beat until soft peaks form. 
Gradually add icing sugar and beat until stiff peaks form. 
Divide icing among 3 bowls. Cover 1 bowl with plastic wrap and place in the fridge. 
Add red colouring to 1 bowl and stir until combined. 
Add green colouring to remaining bowl and stir until combined. 
Cover with plastic wrap and place in the fridge.
Place the dough between 2 sheets of baking paper and roll out until about 4mm thick. 
Use a 9cm gingerbread man cutter to cut out shapes. Place on trays about 3cm apart. 
Repeat with any excess dough.
Bake in oven for 10 minutes or until brown.
 Remove from oven. Transfer to a rack to cool.
Place prepared icings in small plastic bags. Cut a small hole in a corner of each bag. Pipe icing over gingerbread men to decorate. Finish with Smarties.
Notes
Allow 30 minutes resting time.