• Leopard print cookies on a chopping board, at the side of 2 paint brushes and 2 pots of edible paint
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    Leopard Print Cookies

    Why just wear leopard print when you can decorate treats with it! As well as looking great, these cookies are tasty and crumbly. The recipe makes between 8 and 12 (depending on the size of your cookie cutter) and can be used for party table additions or in packed lunches. Why not give them a try? Ingredients – Cookies 100g butter 75g demerara sugar 1 small egg 1 tsp vanilla bean extract 200g plain flour Ingredients – Icing and Decoration 3 egg whites 400g icing sugar 1 tsp liquid glucose 2 tsp lemon juice Gold and black edible paint / gel colouring Step 1 Pre-heat the oven to 170 degrees…

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    Chocolate Sprinkle Biscuits

    This is a great activity to complete with kids or actually, even without. The result is 12 white chocolate dipped biscuits (cookies is you’re not in the UK), coated in colourful sprinkles. The beauty of this is that it’s a really simple idea that creates a treat for people of any age to have at any occasion (or no occasion, we made ours on a Sunday afternoon). Feel free to switch up the digestives for another biscuit, you could choose your favourite. I was thinking of dipping Oreos till I remembered that I’d actually finished them off the week before (oops). Why not try swapping white chocolate for milk? Or…

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    Oat and Raisin Cookies

    This recipe is perfect to make at the weekend and use for lunch boxes and tea time treats for the week ahead. I personally love the chewiness of oat and raisin cookies, so delicious. And for those of you that ‘dunk’ in a ‘brew’, these are pretty stables ‘dunkers’! I gave them a slight twist on the traditional method by adding ginger, which really gives the flavour a different dimension. You’ll notice that I’ve put options for the quantity of this and that is purely based on the fact that I like really gingery biscuits whilst others members of my family go for the subtle option. It’s an easy recipe…