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Recipe for Cheese Biscuits

Every end of term at my daughters'energy conservation...mine and the world's in
kindergarten, finds us baking cheese biscuitsequal  measure.
for their festival. These are delicious, easy
to make, light flaky mouthfuls of crunch,Here  is  the recipe for the cheese biscuits:
just like cheese straws only more fun, as you
can use any shaped cookie cutter you like. We100g/4oz  finely  grated  cheese
have pigs, bunnies, stars, moons, hearts,
fish. They are the perfect answer to the50g/2oz  self-raising  flour
dilemma of providing a treat snack for school
feasts and festivals, that doesn't break the25g/1oz  soft  butterpinch  of cayenne pepper
school guidelines of minimising sugar but is
still fun for the kids. They are also anFor the cheese you can use a mature cheddar
essential item at birthday parties for myor 80g mild cheddar with 20g parmesan cheese.
children. The last birthday had mePut everything into a bowl and rub in,
frantically rolling and cutting out thesesquidge and knead for about 5 minutes until
cheese biscuits, in between trying to get ait comes together into a soft dough. It will
roast lunch on the table before the afternoondo, just as you are about to give up hope of
party. The original plan had been for theit doing so unaided. Roll out the dough on a
kids to do all the work, to keep themlightly floured surface to about 2.5mm/ 1/8"
entertained and gainfully employed in thethick and cut into whatever fancy shapes you
lull before the party, but the birthday girlhave cutters for. Bake at 200C/400F for 10-12
was too busy playing with her new toys andminutes until golden. Cool on a rack. This
the others too busy bemoaning the fact it wasamount disappears very quickly, even before
so long before their birthdays, so that I gotyou've turned your back on them sometimes,
left  with  the  job  at  the  last  minute!they're very light and moreish, so I usually
make double or triple quantities for the
Today though I had the five year olds infestivals.
charge of the cheese biscuits, kneading then
rolling out and cutting out with animalThe cheese biscuits go down very well with
shaped cookie cutters. This still required aadults too. At the last birthday party one
fair amount of timely intervention, to getfather polished off a whole plateful, rather
the dough to hold together before frustrationthan sample the birthday cake. They would
set in and make sure my youngest got a chancemake a great accompaniment to drinks before
to cut out some shapes without destroying herdinner. You could cut them into long strips
older sister's carefully ordered scheme ofand give one twist to make them into cheese
things. I also had to get a batch of breadstraws, then sprinkle them with extra
done while they were cooking, as we hadparmesan or find a more sophisticated shape
finished up the last slice at lunch, but thatas a cookie cutter - the star shapes would
used up the rest of my energy reserves so Istill be good. Mind you most laid-back adults
settled on baked potatoes as a minimal effortwould be just as happy as the kids to be
supper. The oven was on anyway for theeating pigs and bunnies!
biscuits and bread so it was all in aid of



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