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Chocolate Scrabble Biscuits

5th October 2018 By Urvashi Roe

cookie, biscuit, scrabble, urvashi roe

Do you play Scrabble? My husband and I have been playing for over 20 years. Sometimes cards and sometimes Scrabble. The score sheets are so old that we don’t bother anymore. In fact now the challenge is less about points but rather about the best word. Last Christmas I got some lovely Scrabble biscuit cutters. […]

Filed Under: Recipes, Sweet Tagged With: baking, biscuit, chocolate, cookie, cooking, food, GBBO, recipes, scrabble

Pomegranate and Rose Shortbread (Cookies) 

7th April 2018 By Urvashi Roe

I do love a good biscuit don’t you? Having a cup of tea in the afternoon without a biscuit feels rather sad. Usually I send one of the girls across the road to the newsagent to get a packet of Rich Tea. Now that is a good biscuit. But today I wanted something rather different […]

Filed Under: Recipes, Sweet Tagged With: biscuit, cookie, pomegranate, rose

Biscuit : Miranda Gore-Browne

27th June 2012 By Urvashi Roe

About the author Miranda was on the first series of The Great British Bake Off and I think we all remember her for the ‘soggy bottom’ comment from Mary Berry! I also remember her as the ‘queen of iced biscuits’. Such attention to detail – a girl after my own heart! What I also liked […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: biscuit, miranda gore-browne

Canapés – the saving grace of my 'minglephobia'

22nd October 2011 By Urvashi Roe

I’ve been to a few Gala Dinners and Drinks Receptions for work recently. It’s that time of year.  I know I should be enjoying the dressing up part and the celebration itself.  Don’t get me wrong, I love wearing an evening gown and heels and jewellery and being all girly.  But ‘networking’ is soooo scary isn’t it? […]

Filed Under: Light Bites Tagged With: autumn, baking, biscuit, blackberry, canape, cooking, curd, food, fruit, macaroon, macron, recipes

Lavender shortbread

5th July 2011 By Urvashi Roe

I first had a taste of lavender when I lived in Aix en Provence.  My weekly treat was a whole morning at the Saturday market.  I would go from stall to stall practising my French with the traders and sampling their wonderful wares – yeah OK – I was a student so it was a […]

Filed Under: Sweet Tagged With: baking, biscuit, edible flowers, GBBO, lavender, shortbread

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