During the school holidays, Sarah bought 500 Chocolate Delights with her pocket money and has been delighting us ever since with some delicious chocolate recipes. This week she made her version of the Coconut and Chocolate Chip cookies.
Coconut and Chocolate Chip Cookies
115 g plain flour, sifted
40 g self raising flour, sifted
2 tsp baking powder
60 g brown sugar
60 g caster sugar
1 egg
2 drops vanilla extract
3 tbspn vegetable oil
90 g plain chocolate, roughly chopped
35 g coconut
55 g icing sugar
2 tbspn water
Preheat oven to 160 deg C. Put first 7 ingredients in food processor. Gradually add oil and process until mixture becomes a soft, crumbly dough. Stir in chocolate and coconut and knead well. Roll into 12 balls and arrange on tray. Bake for 10-12 minutes.
Remove from oven and cool. Stir water into the icing sugar to make a smooth paste. Drizzle icing across each cookie. Allow icing to set.
Sarah’s Girl Guide group made Mothers Day cupcakes this week. They were all decorated with piped icing and sugar flowers, and presented in a beautiful cupcake box with a hand made card. I was a parent helper for the activity and it was wonderful to see the girls all enjoying the baking and decorating – they were very proud of their efforts.
The Guide Leader had sourced these really sweet Fox Run Cupcake Boxes and Cupcake Baking Papers from All About Bread. I loved them so much, I have popped down and bought some for a giveaway. (Long time readers of our blog would know that Sarah and I have thing for baking cases/patty pans!) So if you would like to win a pack of cupcake baking papers and a matching cupcake box, just leave a comment on this post. We will draw the winner on May 12.
Talking of giveaways, Sarah at QFD Creative is giving away a $50 voucher to her store – more details here. Thanks to Elizabeth from To be Charmed for linking to my Breakfast in Bed Tutorial. Elizabeth has a great tutorial on a stylish DIY Sandwich Wrap that I can’t wait to make.
Oh dear me! Those Mother’s Day cupcakes are so tempting!!!! I have to get a cupcake fix as in right now!
I totally adore cute baking cases too! Thank you for the giveaway treat!
At first i thought that Sarah had bought 500 chocolate bars and was eating them all then i realised it’s a cook book. LOL.
More yummy delights, i dont know how you aren’t as big as a house.
very cute cases and boxes.
Sarah’s biscuits look wonderful, thanks for posting the recipe. Lucky mums to recieve yummy homemade cupcakes, what a treat! Love the cupcake papers and boxes, a perfect way to package your home baking for gifts.
Oh I’m finally getting my kitchenaid mixer this week and planning on making lots of yummy cupcakes.
I’ll have to go back through your posts to try your recipes
Those Mother’s Day cupcakes look soooo yummy! Plenty of icing! that’s what I like to see!
The baking cases and matching boxes are lovely! I’ve never seen the boxes before! What a great idea!
Jill
Mmmm yummy biscuits, and those cupcakes look divine!! Are you able to share the cupcake icing recipe with us? I have tried piped icing but it was a bit of a disaster LOL!
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Great giveaway. The cakes look fabulous.
Yummy recipe. Great giveway. But I’m not certain what Caster Sugar is. Can you clarify?
SewCalGal
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Hi Lisa,
Its so great that young girls are still being encouraged to bake. Sarah is always making yummy goodies and those cupcakes, yummy.
hugs Deb
What a lovely giveaway… count me in!
Do you ever watch the very old Martha Stewart repeats that are on Chanel 7-two on weekdays at 4:30? (at least, that’s when it’s on in Melbourne) Because she’s currently in the middle of ‘cupcake week’! Have seen some lovely cupcakes on her show, but these look delicious!
The cupcakes look so delicious! And the cookies, oh my! Buying a recipe book with her own pocket money shows how she loves to bake, what a sweet girl you have!
I, too, am a cupcake packaging freak. Thanks for sourcing the products for us.
Yummo,love cupcakes and would love the chance to win the cupcake cases,thanks 🙂 barb.
Wow these patty cases and boxes are divine. You know when I was a guide, nothing like this activity was put in front of my patrol!
oh such a wonderful giveaway girls…making cupcakes bright and pretty is so much fun
You were the perfect choice for Parent helper at this activity 🙂 The baking looks delicious.
These baking papers look devine. I’m sure the cakes taste even better.
My husband would adore those coconut and chocolate chip cookies! I would love those cupcakes. What a fun baking post. Nice to have the calories in pictures rather than on me!
Wow what great cupcake boxes. I wish i could get them here.
What fun – count me in!!
Wow Sarah — you’re a fabulous little baker. Your creations are just beautiful!
I just love cupcake liners! Yay!
thanks for the chance to win!
This is the second time I have seen a recipe for those cookies (in a week). I think that’s an official sign that I have to make them this weekend! I bet they are devine!
OH no i want this so bad! I will be opening a bakery online soon in ,y country where cupcakes are not SUPER popular yet and these will look amaizng in my pictures!!! lol
Im corssing my fingers
And I have been making FUN CUPCAKES for Birthdays the past few weeks….It’s been fun and now there’s beautiful liners and boxes for them!!! AWESOME!
Half the delight in desserts these days is the pretty wrapping they come in!!!! It sure does spiffy up a plain jane dessert!
Oh, those are so so cute! It would be awesome to win 🙂
Girls did a lovely job on the cupcakes. The boxes and papers are gorgeous! I would love to enter your giveaway!
Lucky you to have a girl who loves to bake: from what I’ve seen she turns out some delicious looking goodies.
They look really sweet, pardon the pun! Somehow pretty cases can make all the difference. Um, just a small question – is it okay to publish online a recipe from a published book? It just popped into my head, so I’m just putting it ‘out there’.
Wow I have never seen the cupcake boxes before – they are adorable – what a great way to present a yummy cupcake…thanks for the chance at a wonderful giveaway….yummo!
Those cookies and cupcakes look yummy! I would love to give the cupcake liners and box to my sister for her upcoming birthday! Fingers crossed!
Great giveaway! Please count me in!
Wow, I bet the guides were in heaven to get you as a parent helper!!! Yummy looking cakes and great cases. Love them!
yum!! i wish the cupcakes came with the giveaway! i’m sure they are long gone 🙂
The cupcake boxes and papers look lovely. Wouldn’t that make a fabulous gift – a box of gift wrapped cupcakes!
Delicious cookies & cakes…mmm… And LOVE the cupcake cases & presentation boxes! What a fun giveaway… I love to bake! ;o) Thank you, Lisa… ((HUGS))
Mmmm! Cupcakes! Thanks for the giveaway!
🙂
Shannon
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so cute!!
can i join in from the UK????
gill
Your blog tells me I need to get busy and bake for my family. It all looks wonderful, your extra touches make it special.
these are beautiful!
thanks for the giveaway 🙂
So many mums will be having yummy cupcakes on Sunday – they are gorgeous! And well done Sarah on your recipe. It also looks quite tempting! Might send Blossom to have a look and see if my hints produce a flurry of activity in the kitchen for her. 😉
The cookies and the cupcakes look great. DD will be dipping pretzel sticks in chocolate with her friends today for Mother’s Day gifts.
Stop It! My mouth is watering! Those cookies sound “out of this world delicious.” And, those sugary cup cakes…so Yummy. I have an awful “sweet tooth.” My dentist stay rich because of me. He he.
Have a fabulous weekend. Dogwood
I was thinking of popping to All About Bread and Greenwood Craft for some wool – I’ll have to check out the cupcake papers while I am there. Have you seen the selection of wrappers and patty pans at the Weigh n’ Pay shop in Woodvale (corner of Whitfords Ave and Trappers Dr)? They have some very nice decorating bits and bobs for cakes.
Jude
Ive just discovered this blog and LOVE IT! Looking forward to reading the earlier posts and continue with the new-
Those cupcakes would be the perfect Mother’s Day gift!
(Don’t worry about entering me in the drawing – the wraps are lovely, but the shipping/handling would probably be daunting!)
Oh YUM! Those cookies look AMAZING.
You two have a wonderful weekend and a sweet Mother’s Day!
xoxoox
Denalee
what a fab way to present muffins and cupcakes and a great gift for mums day too.
You KNOW I’m going to have to go and find those cake boxes, don’t you? Too cute!
Wow, those cupcakes sure look yummy! And you’re not the only ones with a thing for cute cupcake papers – anything to make those baked treats even more special is a plus in my book.
I love the cupcake boxes and papaers. They would be perfect for a wedding shower:) I am having. Please enter my in to the drawing!