Over the years, the tradition of making Christmas cookies together has been shared by many families.
This year, Jungle is encouraging parents and their children to carry on with this tradition but to opt-out of store-bought biscuits and opt-in for home-made festive delights.
Baking up a storm also doubles up as a crafty project for families to enjoy this holiday season.
Oats and honey cookies
Ingredients:
1½ cups Jungle Oats
¼ cup honey
½ cup brown sugar
1 egg
3 tbs butter (room temp)
½ cup wheat flour
½ tsp salt
½ tsp baking soda
1 tbs water
Optional choc chips/raisins and nuts
Method:
- Preheat oven to 180°C and spray a baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray.
- Beat together the butter, brown sugar, honey, egg and water thoroughly.
- Sift together the dry ingredients then stir in the oats. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix.
- Add any additional ingredients you’ve chosen.
- Drop heaped teaspoons of cookie batter onto the cookie sheet.
- Bake 12 to 15 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
Peanut butter cookies
Ingredients:
250g butter
500ml sugar
2 eggs, whisked
125ml peanut butter
10ml bicarbonate of soda
25ml milk
5ml vanilla essence
500ml flour, sifted
500ml Jungle Oats
500ml coconut
500ml cornflakes
30ml berry jam
Method:
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Cream butter and sugar; then add whisked eggs.
- Add peanut butter and mix well.
- Dissolve bicarbonate of soda in milk and stir in the vanilla essence. Add to butter mixture and blend well.
- Add the remaining dry ingredients to the butter mixture and mix well.
- Form walnut-sized balls. Place on a greased baking tray and flatten slightly with a fork.
- Spoon ¼ tsp of jam onto each cookie. Bake for 10-15 minutes until golden brown and done.
- Turn out onto a cooling rack. Allow them to cool and store in an airtight container.
Holiday cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup Jungle Plus Original
1 cup self-raising flour
15ml ground cinnamon
1 small egg yolk, beaten
1 tbs grated ginger
1 tbs bicarbonate soda
75g light brown sugar
30ml milk
100g of syrup
80g salted butter
Method:
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- In a saucepan, melt butter, sugar, ginger, syrup and leave to cool.
- Mix Jungle Plus, flour and bicarbonate of soda together with cooled sugar mix.
- Add egg yolk to final mix and knead to make dough.
- Roll dough out on a floured surface to about 3mm thick. Cut into shape of choice.
- Place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Bake for 7-10 minutes or until golden brown.
