Cake Decor Cairns

My kind of afternoon tea. I have a weakness for these chocolate chip cookies, so much so that I don't often make them. They are so easy to make and even easier to eat! There's nothing I enjoy more that a nice afternoon cuppa with a cookie or two, ok maybe three! You can substitute the chocolate chips, add any thing you like to the basic recipe and turn them into any flavour you like. One of my favourites is white chocolate and macadamia nut pieces. I just use a hand held mixer  in a large bowl to cream the butter and sugars, I find there's no need to pull out my big freestanding one for these cookies. The brown sugar gives these cookies a slight hint of caramel to the base. If you don't have brown sugar on hand you can use all white sugar, but the taste is not going to be the same. Don't be tempted to walk too far away from the kitchen when baking, the 10-15 minutes goes very quick and they are very easy to burn. Only cook until lightly golden for a soft c

You have found a delicious looking recipe from an American web page, only problem is that it's in Fahrenheit and your oven is in Celsius or you need Fluid Ounces (fl oz) but your measuring cup says mm (millilitres). How do you convert these recipes to make it work in  your oven? I have created a couple of handy charts to help you convert temperatures from Fahrenheit to Celsius and fluid ounces to millilitres / litres, but before you get too bogged down on all the conversions, I will let you in on a little secret - I don't convert many of my chosen recipes at all! Well okay, I definitely always convert the temperature because my oven is in Celsius - so there's no way avoiding that one. But as for the American to Australian quantities I don't convert recipes that are already listed as cup, tablespoon, teaspoon (which is often the case). Even though different regions have a different measure for their cups and spoons, the general ratio will still create the same rec