Braeden's Blog: February 2008

Would you like to learn to make these yummy biscuits?

I'll show you how!

First, wash your hands very well, because you don't want to put any germs onto the food.

It is kind to make sure that you always give people food which has been made in a clean way

If you have an apron, you should put it on, because these biscuits can get a bit messy

These are the things you need to make the biscuits (I will list the amounts again at the end)

125ml peanut butter (I like to use the one with no added sugar or salt or anything)

Then, 125 grams butter (I always like to use real butter rather than margarine)

Add 100 grams of white sugar

Then 100 grams of brown sugar

Mix it all together

When it looks nice and soft and creamy you can add 2ml vanilla essence
I love the smell of this
We like to buy the real vanilla extract. It is quite expensive, but you use less, I only had to put in 4 drops

Break one egg into a bowl
(I like to do it with one hand - it is like a trick!)

Then add into the mixture.

It is always better to break eggs into a seperate bowl first just in case they are bad. If you didn't know it was bad, and put it straight into the mixture, you would have to throw the whole mixture away because of the stink

My brother says that you can test if an egg is rotten by putting it into a bowl of water. If it floats, DON'T USE IT!

He also says that 100's of years ago, witch-finders used that same method to decide if someone was a witch or not! They dropped her into a lake, and if she floated she was a witch, and was killed. If she sank, she was innocent .... and dead anyway!

Weird!

Okay, moving on - this egg was definitely fresh!

In another bowl, mix half a teaspoon of Baking Powder (soda) to 150 grams of flour

And 3ml of Bicarbonate of Soda (just a tiny bit more than half a teaspoon)

Pour the whole lot into the peanut butter mixture (through a sieve)

Now stir it all together

It gets quite hard, but don't give up

When it is all mixed, you can peel a ripe banana, and add it in
I just broke it into pieces and stirred it in, but it might be easier to mash it in another little bowl first then add it, and you won't have such hard stirring to do again

Whew

Then when it is all nicely mixed, you can reward yourself and lick the spoon! Yum!
But don't put the spoon back in the mixture! It must be washed after you licked it.

Then you must get some plastic wrap and wrap the mixture all up

Into a parcel like this

Then put it in the fridge for 30 minutes

Now you can clean up your mess, and then have a little break

After the 30 minutes, wash your hands again before you do the next step. This is very important, because you will need to use your hands to do this part.

Unwrap the cooled mixture

And start taking walnut-sized pieces and rolling them into balls and then put onto a greased biscuit tin

This is the fun part!

Make sure they have spaces in between because the biscuits will spread out

Your hands get very sticky, so I had a wet cloth to keep wiping them if I needed to
Don't lick your fingers, you will have to go all the way back to wash them again!