3 festive season cookies everyone will love

Over the years, the tradition of making Christmas cookies together has been shared by many families.

This year,  we are encouraging parents and their kids to carry on with this tradition but to opt-out of store-bought biscuits and opt-in for homemade festive delights.

Baking up a storm also doubles up as a crafty project for families to enjoy this holiday season.

OATS AND HONEY COOKIES

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups Jungle Oats
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 3 tbs butter (room temp)
• 1/2 cup wheat flour
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tbs water
• Optional choc-chips / raisins and nuts

Method:

• Preheat oven to 180°C.
• Spray a baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray.
• Beat together the butter, brown sugar, honey, egg and water thoroughly.
• Sift together the dry ingredients then stir in the oats.
• Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix.
• Add any additional ingredients you’ve chosen.
• Drop heaped teaspoons of cookie batter onto the cookie sheet.
• Bake 12 to 15 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.

PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Ingredients:

• 250g butter
• 500ml sugar
• 2 eggs, whisked
• 125ml peanut butter
• 10ml bicarbonate of soda
• 25ml milk
• 5ml vanilla essence
• 500ml flour, sifted
• 500ml Jungle Oats
• 500ml coconut
• 500ml cornflakes
• 30ml berry jam

Method:

• Preheat oven to 180°C.
• Cream butter and sugar.
• Add whisked eggs.
• Add peanut butter and mix well.
• Dissolve bicarbonate of soda in milk and stir in the vanilla essence. Add to butter mixture and blend well.
• Add the remaining dry ingredients to the butter mixture and mix well.
• Form walnut-sized balls. Place on a greased baking tray and flatten slightly with a fork.
• Spoon 1/4 tsp of jam onto each cookie.
• Bake for 10-15 minutes until golden brown and done.
• Turn out onto a cooling rack. Allow to cool and store in an airtight container.

HOLIDAY COOKIES

Ingredients

• 1 cup Jungle Plus Original
• 1 cup self-raising flour
• 15ml ground cinnamon
• 1 small egg yolk, beaten
• 1 tbs grated ginger 
• 1 tbs bicarbonate soda 
• 75g light brown sugar
• 30ml milk
• 100g of syrup
• 80g salted butter

Method:

• Preheat oven to 180°C. 
• In a saucepan, melt butter, sugar, ginger, syrup and leave to cool.
• Mix Jungle Plus, flour and bicarbonate of soda together with cooled sugar mix.
• Add egg yolk to final mix and knead to make dough.
• Roll dough out on a floured surface, to about 3mm thick.
• Cut into shape of choice.
• Place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
• Bake for 7-10 mins or until golden brown.