The Cookie Barrel!

I literally went kitchen crazy this long weekend! I was in this total baking and cooking mode and wanted to bake anything and everything! :) I think I wanted to take advantage of the full long weekend and totally inspired with all my recipe books that constantly stare at me :) I even read them in the car on the way to work!

Okay, the samples for the Cookie Barrel were Custard Hearts and Melting Moments with Passionfruit cream :) I have never made these before and only ever eaten Melting Moments store bought!

Cookies are pretty to look at and nice to nimble on, but they are time consuming! But satisfying once completed! I baked the cookies on Sat night and used my heart cutters to get the heart shape, and a cake tester to make the little dots on the hearts :) They do indeed look better with the dots :) Almost like cross stitch!



On Sunday, I made the 2 different creams and sandwiched them together. Okay, Im not much into the use of icing sugar and think it's just sweet and well just sweet! But I have changed my mind. The passionfruit cream, although sweet (made of icing sugar, butter and passionfruit pulp) was really quite pleasant, there was definitely a twist with the passionfruit.

The custard cream was a DREAM! I honestly cannot explain how I feel about the texture of the cream... I know, I sound bizarre, who ever gets passionate over cookie cream? This isn't your usual whipped cream, but really like the cream between your Arnold's biscuits. It was beautifully smooth, a very golden yellow custard colour and OH! just really nice :) Tasted okay too!

I have actually yet to try the custard heart cookies, but I did try the Melting moments which used Self raising flour - and when they say Self raising flour, they also mean self expanding flour. This was not just a moment, but a GIANT moment :) Came out larger than I expected, but yes it really does melt in your mouth and definitely deserves a "Fragile" sticker :)