Woofie Christmas cookies - peanut butter dog treats recipe

I was thinking what would make my dog, #Mallowcheng, happier this Christmas. Then this great idea came to my mind. I am going to make her some Christmas cookies. I found this recipe in Pinterest and it is great. I didn't try it myself but Mallow loves it. My son, Sebastian, loves to feed Mallow so I was thinking this recipe is good and I don't mind him eating it too.

Ingredients:

1 cup peanut butter
1 cup rolled oats (optional, when you want to add extra texture to your biscuit)
1 cup milk
2 cups flour
2 tablespoon baking powder


Instructions

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit while preparing the ingredients. Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl and then add the milk. Mix the peanut butter last. Mix these ingredients until you get the consistency of bread dough which you could later on flatten and create different shapes out of it.Once ready, put your dough cuts in a baking pan and let it cook in the oven for about 18 minutes or until it is golden brown.

Decorative scented ornament with coffee salt dough



I just love making these ornaments. I use it as an air freshener by adding a few drop of essential oils to the flower. It makes my home smells so good. I even put one of this ornament in my toilet. I mix lavender oil and mint oil to it. I smells so refreshing! I guess the coffee ground in the salt dough plays an important role to neutralise the bad odour in the toilet as well.


Coffee Salt dough recipe:

1 cup of used coffee grounds

1cup of salt

1cup of flour

1 cup of water (You don’t need the full cup)

 

Salt dough recipe:

1cup of salt

2 cups of flour

1 cup of water

A few drops of food colouring
(I used red and blue colouring and I mixed the blue and red to make the purple)

 

Instructions

Mix both recipes separately using different bowls. Then, slowly add the water to the dry mixture and knead the mixture into dough. If it is too sticky add more flour.

Once you are happy with your project, bake it for 1 to 2 hours at about 100’c.

Once the ornament cools down to room temperature, add about 20 drops of the lavender essential oil to the ornament. I top it with some coffee beans just for decoration.

To make the leaves, I used these cutters. 

To make the butterfly, I used these cutters. 

 

To make the flower, I used these cutters. 

 

  

Gingerbread cookies for Christmas

Christmas is always a good excuse for me to stuff a few more cookies into my mouth. I just love the smell of cinnamon, ginger and cloves that fills my home when I bake these cookies. They are so delicious and even my little Sebastian loves it!

This Gingerbread cookie recipe is adapted from my favourite chef's recipe, Donna Hay.

• 125g unsalted butter, softened
• ½ cup (90g) brown sugar
• ⅔ cup (230g) golden syrup (I use molasses)
• 2½ cups (375g) plain (all-purpose) flour, sifted
• 2 teaspoons ground ginger (I switched it with 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon of ginger and 1 teaspoon of cloves)
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of (baking) soda

      

Preheat oven to 160°C (325°F). Place the butter and sugar in an electric mixer and beat for 8–10 minutes, scraping down the sides of the bowl, until pale and creamy. Add the golden syrup, flour, ginger and bicarbonate of soda and beat until the mixture just comes together to form a smooth dough. Roll the dough out between 2 sheets of non-stick baking paper to 4mm thick and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Using a small gingerbread man cookie cutter, cut out 32 shapes, re-rolling the dough as necessary. Place on 2 large baking trays lined with non-stick baking paper. Using the tip of a 6mm-round nozzle, cut two holes from each gingerbread man and bake for 6–8 minutes or until golden. Turn off the oven and allow to cool completely.






https://www.donnahay.com.au/recipes/gingerbread-men-garland

 

Decorative Jewellery holder from Salt dough

I really enjoy working with salt dough and moulding it into something beautiful. This time I made a decorative jewellery holder and I love it!  

  

Coffee Salt dough recipe:

1 cup of used coffee grounds

1cup of salt

1cup of flour

1 cup of water (You don’t need the full cup)

 

Salt dough recipe:

1cup of salt

2 cups of flour

1 cup of water

A few drops of food colouring

 

Instructions

Mix both recipes separately using different bowls. Then, slowly add the water to the dry mixture and knead the mixture into dough. If it is too sticky add more flour.

Once you are happy with your project, bake it for 1 to 2 hours at about 100’c.

Once the ornament cools down to room temperature, add about 20 drops of the lavender essential oil to the ornament. I top it with some coffee beans just for decoration.

To make the leaves, I used these cutters. 

To make the butterfly, I used these cutters. 

 

To make the flower, I used these cutters. 

 

Decorative air freshener from salt dough

I really enjoy working with salt dough and moulding it into something beautiful. I bought some new cutters from eBay recently and I thought of trying something different. I wanted to make a decorative ornaments that I can place it anywhere in my house and it can permeates the fragrant smell of the essential oil that resides in it.

 

 

Coffee Salt dough recipe:

1 cup of used coffee grounds

1cup of salt

1cup of flour

1 cup of water (You don’t need the full cup)

 

Salt dough recipe:

1cup of salt

2 cups of flour

1 cup of water

A few drops of food colouring

 

Instructions

Mix both recipes separately using different bowls. Then, slowly add the water to the dry mixture and knead the mixture into dough. If it is too sticky add more flour.

Once you are happy with your project, bake it for 1 to 2 hours at about 100’c.

Once the ornament cools down to room temperature, add about 20 drops of the lavender essential oil to the ornament. I top it with some coffee beans just for decoration.

To make the leaves, I used these cutter.



 

To make the butterfly, I used these cutters

 

To make the flower, I used these cutters 

Coffee Salt dough mini potplant

Salt dough is amazing and it only requires staple ingredients which are easily found in any household pantry. I started using it to make alphabet blocks for my son to learn alphabets. Then I started to be more creative and I made a fridge magnet for Father’s day. I just fell in love with it and it is addictive! I recently found this coffee salt dough recipe which uses used coffee grounds as part of the ingredient.  I love the idea of using recycled stuff and turn it into something useful.  

Coffee Salt dough recipe:

1 cup of used coffee grounds

1cup of salt

1cup of flour

1 cup of water (You don’t need the full cup)

 Instructions

Mix the coffee grounds, salt, flour into a mixing bowl. Then, slowly add the water to the dry mixture and knead the mixture into dough. If it is too sticky add more flour.

Once you are happy with your project, bake it for 1 to 2 hours at about 100’c.

 

To make the flowers, I used these cutters



To make the house, I used this cutter

For the house impression, I used this cutter  

Let's get cooking - 2 ingredients pizza dough in less than 15 minutes

  

Sometimes being a working mum is not easy especially when you prepared all the food in to morning before you go to work for dinner and your precious little one just refused to eat his dinner. =(

This is quite frustrating! But he still needs to have his dinner.

I am so glad that I found this 2 ingredients pizza dough recipe which is just great and I can get a quick dinner in half and hour. Just 15 minutes to prepare and 15 minutes in the oven.

What do I need?

1 cup of Greek yogurt

1 cup of self raising flour

(Tips: If you don’t have self raising flour, then you can make your own version by adding 1 teaspoon of baking powder to 1 cup of plain flour. You could also substitute natural yogurt instead of Greek yogurt if you prefer.)

What do I need to do?

 

1. Put all the ingredients into the food processor

2. Press the start button

3.Remove the dough from the food processor

4.Spread some flour on the kitchen counter and knead it

5. Knead it and add more flour if necessary  until it looks like the picture. The more love you put into your dough, the tastier it will be.

6.Flatten the dough and start adding your favourite pizza mix.

7.Put it in the oven and baked it at 160'c for 15 minutes depending on the size of the pizza.

Optional- I made some bacon,cheese and vegemite scrolls too. They are yummy!