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Aussie damper and dinosaur biscuits

My brothers and I used to love making damper on the camp fire or bbq. We would all search for the perfect stick to wrap it around before holding it in the coals to cook. Once it was slightly burnt (well that’s how we rolled) we would pull it out and smother it in jam or honey – yumo!

One of the great things about having children is sharing the things you loved as a kid with them 🙂 So today we got the brazier burning and made some damper.

We used:

  • 2 cups self raising flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons sugar
  • 2 teaspoons butter
  • 1 cup milk

Mix the butter and dry ingredients together before adding milk to make a good dough. Then wrap around your stick and place it in the coals. Or for a more civilised version wrap the dough in foil and place on top of the brazier (my husband convinced me to go this way last night). Once it is burnt (hee hee) or cooked for around 20 minutes pull it out and add jam or honey 🙂

We also made some super yummy chocolate dinosaur biscuits this week:

  • 1 cup flour
  • 3/4 cup self raising flour
  • 125 g butter
  • 125 g caster sugar
  • 1 egg
  • few drops of vanilla
  • 3 tablespoons cocoa

Cream butter and sugar before adding the egg and vanilla. Next add the flour and cocoa – mix until it is dough like.We then made small slightly flat biscuit balls before pressing plastic dinosaurs into them. Cook at 160° for around 20 minutes (this mix is also yummy raw)!

 Thanks for reading, Kelly

November 4, 2011 by

Dinosaur egg hunt!

What a beautiful day to be in the garden – sunny blue skies and dinosaur eggs to be found!

While Master D was having lunch I snuck outside and carefully hid the dinosaur eggs around the garden. When Miss M arrived to play the kids excitedly ran into the garden searching for the eggs. First they found one near the dino mama ‘but that’s a rock’ one of them said before it was ‘cracked’ open and a dinosaur discovered!

The next eggs were found near mushrooms, gnomes and hiding behind a wooden stump seat. The eggs were easily cracked open (thankfully, since I’d forgotten about them for a while as they baked, oops). And then the kids happily played dinos, stopping in between for some afternoon tea dino biscuits. Ahhh, to be a kid again – bliss 🙂

And making the eggs was also fun and easy – I followed this tutorial from Sew Can Do :-). I must have looked quite bizarre stirring up my coffee grinds, sand and flour!

Thanks for reading, Kelly

November 4, 2011 by