Making biscuits is an easy and fun way to fill an hour with your children, and you can be certain what goes into them.

Not unusually, I can’t remember where we got this recipe from but I’d suspect it’s pretty generic.

Ingredients:

225g Self-Raising Flour; 225g Sugar; 225g Porridge Oats; 225g Butter; 1 tbsp Golden Syrup; 1 tbsp of hot water; 1/2 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda

Method:

We carefully melt the butter, syrup and water in a pan on a low heat. You want to melt the butter not burn it so keep an eye on it.  Whilst, melting the butter, syrup and water, mix the flour, oats and sugar in a large bowl. You can add extra ingredients if you wish at this point and sometimes we’ll add raisins.

Once the butter etc has melted add the bicarbonate of soda to it, then add the this to the dry mix and mix well with a wooden spoon ensuring it is all mixed well.

We then make balls around the size of a golf ball, maybe slightly smaller and place on a tray (we use greaseproof paper) and we get between 24 and 30 ‘golf balls’ (see pic).

Bake in a preheated oven at 180C for 10-15 mins, they should be golden brown.. as you can see from (picture below) we’ve done some at 10 mins and some left in a little longer.

Leave to cool on a wire tray for a few minutes then eat at least two and tray and save the rest to share with family or friends… perfect with a cup of tea. Enjoy!