Apple and Maple Cookies

This recipe originates from one in the Great British Bake off cookbook (sticky maple and apple tray bake). It is absolutely divine! Recently I was looking at that recipe thinking,
"hmmmm should I make this again?" but then I saw a recipe for cookies in the latest Good Food magazine and that made me think again. I really wanted cookies... So I use the maple and apple flavours with the cookie recipe.

The cookies themselves just have apples in them and it is the icing which is used to stick them together that gives them the maple flavour, much like the tray bake where the icing is the only maple flavoured component.

Before I made them I was a little worried about whether or not apples would actually work in cookies and I can confirm that they do! But first you must cube your peeled and cored apples then sauté them in butter and brown sugar. This gives them a lovely butterscotch-y coating and cookies them through a little, taking away the bite that raw apples have. This means that when your cookies are finished the apples are delicious and soft just adding little sprinkles of extra flavour and texture throughout the cookie.

My only complaint would be that the icing needs to go in the fridge if you are keeping them, but generally I would say try and eat them all on the same day as baking. What am I saying!? "Try and eat them on the same day" I'm sure you'll have no issues!

Hope your all having a nice week? On the plus side its half way to the weekend! *Woop woop*

Much Love
Alex-Rose xxx

Maple and Pecan Scones

Well, I had a bit of a baking disaster... I'll explain. I was reading the Olive magazine when I saw their recipe for macaroons and though "Ooooooh, don't they look lovely, I'll bake them" So I started baking but then realised we didn't have all the ingredients and had to dash to the shops.  I just wasn't concentrating because it was only when I was piping little pink circles onto the tray that I thought "This doesn't have much almond in it, how odd?" I put the first tray into the oven regardless and then when I was cleaning up I found the bowl of ground almond and icing sugar... I hadn't sieved it all in... in fact I had barely sieved a quarter of it! The macaroons were not actually macaroons and didn't work so they were scrapped...

But, I didn't want to give up entirely so I decided the best thing to do would be to just bake something else, something simple, some scones! I've made these maple and pecan scones before and they are absolutely delicious, so yummy warm with a little butter in the middle.

Scones are delicious but I definitely prefer sweet to savoury when it comes to them. I can just a bout manage a warm cheese scone but cold, urg. no, no, no! Sweet scones like, fruit or chocolate on the other hand I love, so simple yet so scrumptious!

What do you prefer, sweet or savoury?

Much love Alex-Rose xxx