Blogging frenzy! With biscuits!

I'm on FIAH.

Sunday evening and thoughts turn to the week ahead and my weird need to feel like a Good Mummy and bake delicious lunch box treats for the Monkeys.

The September edition of the mag "Recipes +" has a basic biscuit recipe that you can then flavour up any which way. The deal is that you make a giant wodge of dough, divide it into five smaller wodges, flavour these wodges, roll them into sausages, chill them, cut them into slices, and bake.

Basic biscuit recipe
385g butter
2 eggs
4 cups plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder.

Once again my fantabby KitchenAid mixer made me very happy, and made this job super easy and fun.

Cream butter. Add eggs. Sift flour and baking powder together. Add flour to butter/egg. Mix it up baby.

Clockwise from top left - custard, vanilla, chocolate, cheesy and choc chip.

Custard - add 1/4 cup of icing sugar and a couple if big spoons of custard powder, and a teaspoon of milk.

Vanilla - add 1/4 cup of icing sugar, slosh of vanilla essence, spoon of plain flour.

Chocolate - add goodly bit of cocoa, and some brown sugar.

Cheesy - add lashings of grated cheddar and Parmesan, and a wee sprinkling of cayenne pepper.

Choc chip - icing sugar, choc chips. Easy.

Roll out each flavour into a large sausage, roll it up safely in baking or wax paper, put it in the fridge. The mag says to make each sausage about 25cm long, but if you want dainty little petit four size bikkies, then a skinnier sausage is what you want.

Chill sausages in the fridge for 30 mins +. Or freeze so that you have a convenient supply ready in case friends drop by and you need to whip up a batch instantly. Yeah right.

Slice into 1cm ish thick slices. I put slivers of fresh strawberries on top of the vanilla slices. Bake them at 160 ish deg for 10-12 mins ish.

Omnomnom. Oh yes indeedy. The Love Of My Life proclaimed them "delicious". My work here is done.

If the cheesy ones turn out to be even half as good as the cheesy biscuits that they sell at the shop at the local markets, I am DOOMED. I have no control over myself when they are in the house. Watch this space.