On this week’s Menu Plan Monday Post I linked to a terrific biscuit recipe from Kate at Picklebums that I planned to cook this week.

The recipe stated that it made approx 120 biscuits, so the first week of school holidays was the perfect opportunity to test run the recipe. With the children home and friends dropping by, it would assure a sweet treat was always available.

Cold and windy on Monday afternoon, I took the opportunity to bake the biscuits with the children as an activity. They loved it. I helped them with some of the initial steps, but once we were at the dough stage, they cut it up into four and each child could then add what extra ingredients they wanted to their base dough.

Each child chose different extras to add to their dough as follows:
Thinker - cocoa and choc chips
Little Rascal - cocoa and 100s and 1000s
Possum - 100s and 1000s
Babaganouski - white choc chips.

They then all rolled and forked their dough into biscuit shapes and took turns baking them in the oven. The children were very excited when we counted them all up (they insisted upon doing this) and we had indeed made exactly 120 biscuits. I think we could have made more than that, given that Babaganouski kept eating large junks of his raw dough! The process took about an hour and we then had a delightful afternoon tea with warm biscuits.

Next time we make this recipe I will freeze some dough, a tip that I learnt from Marita who commented on my post 10 Quick Ways to Feed Unexpected Lovely Visitors. This will be really helpful to have stored in the freezer for those times when we run low on items for lunch boxes or friends drop in.

Thanks again Kate for sharing this recipe.

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