Spiced With Cinnamon
We have continued to have great weather so I have nothing to complain about. Do you realise human beings always have something to talk about. If the weather is good we talk about it, if it’s bad we complain about it. If we order a good dessert we complain about the calories.
Did you ever read the book, The Secret by Rhonda Byrne? If you did, then you must know about the gratitude stone (rock), (A small stone, you carry around in your pocket or purse, and each time you reach into your pocket or purse and touch it, it triggers a thought of gratitude, and reminds you to be grateful for something in your life: your job, family, health, friends, good weather etc). I used to walk around with a gratitude stone, but somewhere along the way, I lost it and forgot about it. I think it’s time for me to get another gratitude stone.
Today I want to share a simple recipe for Honey Biscuits. If you’re from North America, substitute the word biscuit with cookie then we’ll all be on the same page (a friend of mine called them Bis-cookies). I enjoyed eating these Honey Bis-cookies. They are slightly chewy with a tinge of honey. We carried them to the beach, on Lake Erie and the bees hovered around our tent for hours!
- Ingredients
- 125g (½ cup + 1 tablespoon, 4½oz) butter or margarine
- 125g (4½oz) soft brown sugar
- 1 small egg (please make sure it’s small)
- ½ teaspoon vanilla essence (extract)
- 30ml (2 tablespoons) clear honey
- 225g (9oz, 1¾ cup) all-purpose (plain) flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½-1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Please always remember to assemble all ingredients before you start
Sift the flour, baking powder and cinnamon.
Beat butter, sugar and vanilla
until light and fluffy.
Beat in egg until combined
then beat in honey.
Fold in sifted flour until just combined
This is what the final mixture looks like. (if the mixture is a bit sticky, pop in the fridge for 30 minutes)
Place heaped teaspoons of the mixture onto prepared baking sheets (trays), about 4cm apart.
Press the top with a fork to make a light indentation.
Bake 15-20 minutes or until golden. Cool for 2 minutes, then transfer onto a cooling rack. (I baked the biscuits (cookies) at 350°F (180°C) for 19 minutes.)
Serve with tea of coffee
I served mine with some coffee
They tasted very nice. I hope you enjoy them.
Golden Honey Biscuits
Original recipe from The Complete Step-by-Step Cakes & Desserts, Gina Steer (ed.)
Preparation time: 30 minutes; Baking time: 15-20 minutes Makes: 30-35, depending on size
Ingredients
- 225g (9oz, 1¾ cup) all-purpose (plain) flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½-1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 125g (½ cup + 1 tablespoon, 4½oz) butter or margarine
- 125g (4½oz) soft brown sugar
- 1 small egg (please make sure it’s small) (42-48g)
- ½ teaspoon vanilla essence (extract)
- 30ml (2 tablespoons) clear honey
Ingredients
- Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C) ten minutes before using. Grease or line two baking sheets (trays) with parchment paper. Sift the flour, baking powder and cinnamon. Set aside.
- Beat the butter, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy. Beat in egg until combined then beat in honey.
- Fold in the sifted flour until just combined. Place heaped teaspoons of the mixture onto prepared baking sheets (trays), about 4cm apart. Press the top with a fork to make a light indentation. (if the mixture is a bit sticky, pop in the fridge for 30 minutes)
- Bake 15-20 minutes or until golden. Cool for 2 minutes, then transfer onto a cooling rack.
- For cup measures: spoon the flour into the cup, heaping it up over the top, then slide a knife across the top to level off the extra. Be careful not to shake or tap the cup to settle down the flour or you will have more than you need. I use a 240ml, American cup.
Points to note:
- Please note that oven temperatures are given as a guideline only. You may need to add or reduce the suggested temperature depending on your oven. I baked the biscuits at 350°F (180°C) for 19 minutes.
- Last Updated: September 3, 2018.
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Thank you Liz for the recipe.I’ll definitely gonna try this 😊
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Hi Liz…..The Cookies are looking soooo sooo tempting….i just cant wait to try them in ma kitchen…really lovely post:))
They tasted very nice. I loved eating them. Gobbled them all in one day. Thanks so much for your compliments and have a fantastic weekend!
What yummy looking cookies! I love cinnamon and I’m sure I’d love these cookies!
Of course you’d do. Hope I told you how much I love your blog? Thanks for visiting me. Wish you a pleasant evening!
I was thinking about this book from the day you posted this, Liz. I think I have to read it to share it to my friends and family. 🙂
You should read it. I still have my copy and CD. When it first came out everybody wanted to read it, so I had to buy a copy. I have read mine several times and I still read it especially when I feel I need to change certain habits in my life. Thanks for visiting me. I wish you a pleasant day.
I will, Liz! Thanks also for sharing thoughts regarding this book. Have a nice day! 🙂
Same to you!
Those Bis-cookies look great! And I also love that gratitude stone reminder. Have a nice day. 🙂
Thank you. Have a lovely week!
Hi Liz, I’m thinking of adapting this recipe to gluten-free and low calorie, they look delicious! What is the second ingredient? I see soft brown?
Thanks for noticing that omission-It’s soft brown sugar. How have you been? long time. Wish you a wonderful week!
Hi Liz, it has been a long time! All is well here and I hope you’ve had a great long weekend. I’ve spent this evening pinning you like mad lol. I only have time to read blogs when I get into bed at night, however, the ipad WP app was a mess for a while there and I got way behind. Just catching up. Great to see you!
Thank you for pinning me like mad. I really appreciate. I joined Pinterest a little while ago but haven’t really pinned anything yet. I need to take one day off and organize my wall. We had a great weekend. I better go to bed. I see it’s now 2.37 am. Goodnight and have a lovely week!
These cookies do sound good. A bit of cinnamon in a chewy cookie would make a perfect treat, in my book. Love the idea of a gratitude stone. We sometimes get so caught up in our lives that we fail to take a moment to realize just how good we have it. Thanks for passing along both, the recipe and idea. 🙂
Hi John,
I am so happy to see you.The cookies were eaten in a matter of hours. I agree with you on gratitude. It’s always good to be grateful for what we already have and the good things that transpire in our lives. Bear hugs to Max…
Orange blossom honey, lavender honey… hazelnut honey… I kid you not… in Germany, my brother took me to ‘honey tasting’ farm. I say tens of varieties of honey… bought more than 6 different kinds of honey for breakfast table. Your cookies are beautiful to the eyes and to the palate. 😀
My curiosity about honey has been raised to a high level because of all these nice sounding varieties of honey people keep on talking about. I am going to go on a honey tasting spree and I shall give all of you a feedback when I am done. Thanks for enlightening me and for the many likes you’ve have been giving me on Facebook.
They look really simple, and the baking time is quite short…which is great with the temperature outside !! I would taste them with orange blossom honey (my favorite one !) Thank you for sharing, Liz !
Wow orange blossom honey (might check it out too). Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful week!
I really enjoyed this post! You reminded me; on days I make desserts my siblings like they sigh in that resigned way and tell me I’m evil. It’s an interesting complaint!
Hi Sugarme,
You see instead of giving you big hugs and commending for the great work done, they are just thinking of “evil”. If I were there, I would just eat and call you an Angel. Thanks for sharing!
I agree with you on gratitude– I love the idea of a reminder. And these cookies are so tidy and pretty. I would love to give them a try. thanks.
Hi Rhonda,
You share a name with the author of the secret, I just realized that (how lovely). Sometimes we forget to be grateful, especially when good things are happening in our lives. Wish you a very pleasant day!
These delectable looking cookies would be tasty when you use lavender honey, it adds a lot of flavour, is subtle & tasty! MMMMMMM, Liz!
What is lavender honey? is it from lavender flowers or what? Please educate me!
http://www.lavenderfarm.com/products/honey.htm
Thank you. I know I can always rely on you. Have a pleasant day!
“True lavender honey is produced from bees that have collected exclusively from lavender flowers” (I got this from the site incase anybody else wonders like me).
yes & it is very fragrnat & I use it on everything! On freshly toasted sourdough toast,…yummm!
I must get a bottle for myself. Then I can have the same experience you’re having. Thanks, Sophie!
It is a bit more expensive then normal honey though, but so worth it, Liz! 🙂 xxx
I understand. Good things never come cheap, but they are usually worth the price you pay. Thanks for warning me!
You are welcome, over & out! 🙂 x
holy yum these look like everything i love. thanks for sharing!!
I love them too. Thanks!
You say “clear” honey… is that clover? or ??? We have a variety of local types. What kind did you use?
I didn’t have the clear honey (I had just run out), so I just used what I could lay my hands on.
Normally, I use Billy Bee Honey, the white one. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate! Thanks.
Yummy in my tummy :)).
Have to try these
Give it a go!
These look like a yummy cookie! I love cinnamon and this would be a great treat. I might even let the kids “help” bake them! Enjoy your long weekend…..we suffer a regular Monday as my husband already left for work at 6 this morning….. At least I have the gym in a couple hours, yoga, a long hot shower…most importantly 2 hours of no kids!
Enjoy your two hours. It’s always so great to take a break from kids and just relax. Mine are big, If I want to relax I just tell them to go outside and play with their friends or occasionally, they hang out with their friend too. Have a fantastic week!
I like the look of these! Simple and elegant, with cinnamon! I added the recipe to Pinterest so I can remember it!
Thank you for pinning it. They are truly simple and elegant. I completely agree!
They look perfect with coffee! 🙂 xx
Thanks!
these look and sounds absolutely delish! i love my cookies on the chewy side! thanks for the recipe.
Thanks. I like mine chewy too. Have a wonderful week!
I read the book and had a stone as well, turns out it was a kidney stone, oh that’s not what you were talking about! LOL. But yes, it’s a philosophy we all should practice. I truly believe we attract what we want and what we believe in. Good or bad! Cookies look delicious. In the world of the law of attraction, I think I am attracting too many calories! Seriously though, the recipe sounds wonderful. Anything with cinnamon and honey must be good. We used to keep bees many years ago and I used honey in place of sugar whenever possible. I still like tea with honey. Happy Monday, time is slipping by so quickly it will soon be time for back to school and all the parents will be singing that song…..”It’s the most wonderful time of the year”!
You continue to amaze me. Now you are telling me you used to keep bees and even produced your own honey? I love tea with honey too, honey on pancakes, honey on scones and I also just occasionally eat honey, like Winnie the Pooh.
I love it when children go back to school. I can selfishly put my feet up and take a cup of coffee without interruption and without becoming Judge Judy. It’s definitely, “the most wonderful time of the year”!
We had a dozen hives. We had the bases attached to the top of a big old trailer and we would tow them up the mountains in late spring, once the snow had melted, and although there were a lot of wildflowers, the honey was mainly from the flowering plant called Fireweed. Areas that had been logged off and or burned always produced fireweed, a pretty flower and loaded with nectar and pollen which the bees would collect. Sadly, domesticated bees are on the wane with all the herbicides, pesticides and diseases prevalent in bee populations today – they have been decimated by some sort of “mite” as well. We had to erect a battery operated electric fence around the wagon to keep marauding bears and other sweet loving critters away. Obviously it worked, we never had any problems with the wildlife. I chuckled to myself visualizing you sitting in a chair with your feet up and a meat mallet in your hand taking on the persona of Judge Judy! 😀
Wow that was a lot of hives. I remember seeing a documentary on bees and their waning populations. It felt so sad because they are needed for pollination. Some plants like the squashes absolutely rely on bees for pollination. In future we might do more of hand pollination which can be expensive.
Were you selling the honey?-you seemed to have gone through a lot of trouble to keep the hives. Ha ha, your visualization of judge Judy is precise and correct. Thanks, Sandy, enjoy whatever is left of today!
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Those look delicious and love the idea of a gratitude stone. Lovely, Liz.
Thanks so much. Have a goodnight!
Gratitude stone….I’m very grateful that I can work in my cool office while it is so sticky hot outside. ^^
LOL you’ve cracked me up, absolutely, and made my evening. I had to laugh for about five minutes before I could reply to this message.
Gratitude Stone: I’m so grateful that I have a humorous friend called Jessie.
Thank you so much and wish you a wonderful week. Tomorrow is still a weekend in Canada.
If you are here in Seoul, you could understand how seriously grateful I am. haha.^_^ Another gratitude stone: I’m so grateful that my summer vacation begins this Wednesday. Your introduction of gratitude stone made me feel so good today. Thanks!
Thanks and good to know that your summer begins this Wednesday. I wish you all the best of summer!