{"id":247,"date":"2016-03-15T13:18:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T13:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=247"},"modified":"2020-04-21T07:03:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T07:03:57","slug":"cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2016\/03\/15\/cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Sibo-with-a-cookie-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-248\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Sibo-with-a-cookie-2-965x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Sibo with a cookie 2\" width=\"474\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Sibo-with-a-cookie-2-965x1024.jpg 965w, http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Sibo-with-a-cookie-2-283x300.jpg 283w, http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Sibo-with-a-cookie-2.jpg 1833w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 85vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In honour of International Woman\u2019s Day (8<sup>th<\/sup> March) \u2013 not to be confused with our South African National Women\u2019s Day on the 9<sup>th<\/sup> August \u2013 I decided to write a blog about cookies.<\/p>\n<p>Yum!<\/p>\n<p>My mum has this incredibly easy recipe that I thought I\u2019d share with you. Just make sure that you get your parental agent to help you out when using the oven please.<\/p>\n<p>This is what you need for the basic sugar dough recipe:<\/p>\n<p>125gm margarine (that\u2019s a quarter of a block)<br \/>\n1 cup sugar (white or brown)<br \/>\n1 egg<br \/>\n2 cups of flour<br \/>\nPinch of salt<br \/>\nTeaspoon of vanilla essence.<\/p>\n<p>Heat the oven to 180<sup>o<\/sup>C.<\/p>\n<p>Melt the margarine in the micro (or leave it out of the fridge for a while until it gets nice and soft). Add the sugar, salt and vanilla essence and mix it all up.<\/p>\n<p>Crack in the egg and stir it well. Lastly, you add the flour and mix it all up together.<\/p>\n<p>Using a teaspoon (or you can roll the dough into little balls in your hands if you don\u2019t mind getting a bit sticky) drop small amounts onto a well-greased cookie tray.<\/p>\n<p>Gently flatten the top of the cookies with a fork. (Sometimes it works better if you put the fork into a cup of hot water first.)\u00a0 You should get at least 24 cookies out of this mixture.<\/p>\n<p>Pop the tray into the oven (this is the bit where you might need an adult to help you &#8211; don&#8217;t burn yourself &#8211; remember the oven is hot!)<\/p>\n<p>When they are cooked and you take them out of the oven \u2013 let the cookies stand on the tray for a little while before you transfer them onto a wire rack to cool down properly.\u00a0 If you move them too soon they may break or crumble.<\/p>\n<p>You can also do variations of this recipe &#8211; add a cup of coconut, crushed peanuts (just put a handful or two into a small bag and bash them with a rolling pin), two spoonfuls\u2019 of peanut butter or if you want chocolate biscuits \u2013 add two tablespoons of cocoa powder to the basic recipe. If your mixture gets a bit dry you can always use 2 eggs instead of 1. If it\u2019s too wet \u2013 add a bit more flour.<\/p>\n<p>Once you get good at baking tasty cookies you could always sell them at school markets, or make extra-special ones for birthday presents to give to the people that you love.<\/p>\n<p>Happy baking,<\/p>\n<p>Sibo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honour of International Woman\u2019s Day (8th March) \u2013 not to be confused with our South African National Women\u2019s Day on the 9th August \u2013 I decided to write a blog about cookies. Yum! My mum has this incredibly easy recipe that I thought I\u2019d share with you. Just make sure that you get your &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2016\/03\/15\/cookies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cookies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,10],"tags":[51,38,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}