DELICIOUS PEANUT COOKIES (uses peanut paste)

60g  butter
1 c each of sugar & raw chopped peanuts
1 tsp BP
1 Tab cocoa
1/2 c peanut paste
2 eggs
2 c pl flour
1/4 tsp bicarb
1 tsp cinnamon
extra peanut halves for garnish

Cream b&s & pp. Beat in eggs singly. Add peanuts.
Sift together drys, add gradually to egg mixture.
Roll dough into small balls, place on baking trays, flattening with fork & decorate with raw peanut halves.

Bake in mod oven 155 degrees C until crisp.  Makes 4-5 dozen.

CHOCOLATE MACAROONS

125g ground almonds
30g grated chocolate
3 whites of eggs
15g ground rice
250g castor sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
15g shredded almonds

Put gr almonds and half the egg whites into a basin and cream well together for 10 mins.
Then add castor sugar & gr rice, v, gr choc and rest of whites. Beat all tog for 10 mins.
Put mixture into a bag with 1/2″ plain pipe, and pipe the mixt out onto paper in rounds the size of a 20c piece. Put shr almonds on top, and bake in mod oven for about 20 mins.