In a saucepan of boiling water (water is bubbling) add the pasta. Give it a stir to stop it sticking to the bottom.
Grate a hand full of cheese.
In a small saucepan put one big ladle of water from the boiling pasta.
Add a heaped tablespoon of white sauce granules.
Light the hob to a warm heat and keep stirring until the sauce is smooth.
Mix the cheese in until it has disappeared.
When the pasta is cooked (test by tasting) drain and mix into the sauce.
Ingredients:
Makes a cake 7cm high, 19cm wide (7› in), 18 good portions or 24 small portions.
8oz flour
8oz caster sugar
8oz margarine
4 eggs
Baking Powder
Method:
Ingredients:
Makes enough for the middle filling and topping.
100g (2oz) soft butter
215g (7› oz) icing sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
Method:
Whisk the soft butter, icing sugar and cocoa powder together to make the butter icing.
Ingredients:
Makes 24 cookies.
75g (3oz) butter, softened
75g (3oz) caster sugar
75g (3oz) soft light brown sugar
1 medium egg
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
175g (6oz) plain flour
› teaspoon baking powder
100g (4oz) milk or plain chocolate drops
Method:
1. Heat the oven to 180┬║C, 350┬║F, gas mark 4. Use a paper towel to wipe a little oil over two baking trays. Put the butter and both types of sugar into a large mixing bowl.
2. Stir the butter and sugar together with a wooden spoon until the mixture is smooth and creamy. Break the egg into a small bowl and beat it well with a fork.
3. Add the vanilla essence to the egg and mix it in. Then, add the eggy mixture to the large bowl, a little at a time, stirring it well between each addition.
4. Sift the flour and baking powder through a sieve into the bowl. Stir the mixture until it is smooth.
5. Add 50g (2oz) of the chocolate drops to the mixture and stir them in well. Then, put a heaped teaspoon* of the mixture onto one of the baking trays.
6. Us the rest of the mixture to make more cookies. Flatten each cookie with the back of a fork and sprinkle them with the remaining chocolate drops.
7. Bake the cookies in the oven for 10 minutes. Use spatula to lift them onto a wire rack to cool.
*Use tablespoon instead. I thought they looked too small so made them bigger. They come out really big and chewy in the middle ÔÇô yum! Makes about 13-14 cookies this way.
