Vanilla choc chip cookies

Very simple, but very tasty, here are some vanilla choc chip cookies...

I roughly chopped a bar of dark chocolate rather than using choc chips,
as then you get nice big chunks of gooey chocolate.

I also added some chopped brazil nuts, almonds and hazelnuts
for added crunch and flavour.

Double choc cookies for Catrin

Here are some double chocolate cookies I made for
Atb creative director Catrin's birthday...


The recipe is from the Hummingbird Bakery cookbook and
contains a mere 450g of dark chocolate for 12 cookies.

Yep, they're pretty hardcore... the perfect accompaniment
to a poster advocating excessive alcohol consumption.

Ever happy to pose for a photo, here's Cookieface.

Almond cookies with green tea cream

My mum got me an amazing book for my birthday called

1001 Cupcakes, Cookies & Other Tempting Treats,
and these almond cookies with green tea cream were requested by Scott.

You make a basic sweet cookie dough and chill it in the fridge.

One half is rolled and cut out normally, while the other is rolled
with a layer of flaked almonds so they get embedded in the dough.

Meanwhile you make a thick cream by infusing hot milk with green tea,
before adding sugar, custard powder and cream cheese.

Then you sandwich them all together with the almond side on top.

My green tea cream is more apricot-coloured than green,
but it still tastes good.

Catrin joins the shoe club

Now Catrin loooves shoes... we all know that... so what

better birthday treat than double chocolate dancing shoe cookies?

You make some chocolate-rich cookie dough, chill it in the

fridge, then roll it out and use a shoe-shaped cookie cutter.

Then you bake them, let them cool, and slather them with
melted chocolate. 85% cocoa if possible...

Then the fun part... who knew you could dye caster sugar

with food colouring? Thanks "Cupcakes Cheesecakes Cookies

By The Australian Women's Weekly". And thanks to Jez &

Tanya who bought me the book for Christmas!

You add some strategically-placed silver and gold balls,

then the coloured sugar... and then... because I'm obsessed

with edible glitter and sparkling vampires and they weren't

quite ridiculous-looking enough... I scattered a whole load of

holographic glitter all over them.

Catrin was very pleased to finally be a part of the shoe club...
And check out those Louboutins!

Thanks to David Reffell for the marvellously surreal pics.
Check out his other work here.