Healthy Cooking for your Kids: Cheese Star Biscuits

      Hi. So, biscuits again huh. Biscuits and cookies... Many of you may think there's no difference . But there is. Cookies: a small cake made from stiff, sweet dough. Biscuits: a kind of bread in small, soft cakes.* There's obviously a lot we don't know about them.

Cheese Star Biscuits

Ingredients:

150g butter, softened

175g Parmesan Cheese, finely grated

50g mature Cheddar cheese, finely grated

100g plain flour, extra for dusting

75g wholemeal plain flour

pinch of sea salt

1 egg yolk

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 tablespoon full-fat milk

25g sesame seeds or linseeds

How to Bake

Beat the butter with cheeses in a bowl until well combined. Add the flours and salt and stir to combine. Mix in the egg yolk and oil to form a soft dough. Wrap the dough in a clingfilm and chill for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Remove dough from refridgerator, unwrap it and roll out on a floured work surface. Using a star shaped cookie cutter, cut out 35 stars, rerolling the trimmings where possible. Place them on a non-stick baking sheet, brush the milk and scatter over the seeds. Bake in the oven for 12-15 minutes until golden. Remove from the oven and leave to cool on a wire rack.



When I get tired, I start eating things that

I wouldn't normally crave, like biscuits, because

they'll give me a bit of energy to keep going.

~ Carol Vorderman 

 

       So, there you go, your Cheese Star Biscuits. Nothing much for me to say. Its back to school for me, so I gotta hit the books. Till the next recipe. ; )