Red Nose Day Cookies with dark chocolate. Short buttery red cookies flavoured with vanilla and finished off with a glace cherry and dark chocolate. Great cookies for raising money for Comic Relief!
So it’s that time again, Red Nose Day is nearly upon us (15 March) and we are all supposed to do something funny for money as it is the turn of Comic Relief to raise money this year!
To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Red Nose Day, Sainsbury’s challenged their bloggers to come up with a Red Nose Day Cookie.
I have to say my first instinct was leave it to the experts, you know the ones who can rustle up an edible rose just by looking at a bag of icing sugar.
So then I talked myself round and decided that winning is not important, it’s the taking part and having some fun that are. My cookies weren’t going to be works of art, but something a child could easily make by themselves and sell at a fund raising event (well that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it)!
With that in mind I reached for my Home-Economics index box for inspiration and came across a recipe for Fork Biscuits and decided they were going to have a Comic Relief make-over.
This involved dying them red, plonking a glace cherry on top and painting their bases with dark chocolate.
I’m sure my old teacher Mrs Stevens wouldn’t mind, it’s in a good cause after all.
The result was absolutely delicious and the cookies didn’t stay in the tin very long.
These Red Nose Day Cookies are short and buttery and the cherry and chocolate combo works a treat.
For all the latest official information and fund raising ideas visit the Red Nose Day website.
To make these cookies I also took the opportunity to try out my new George Wilkinson, Great British Bakeware Insulated Baking Sheet which is part of the vintage styled range (duck pattern on the back!).
The range is coated with GlideX the ultimate performing non-stick coating which won’t flake or scratch – guaranteed for 15 years!
I never knew that you could get a baking sheet the size of your oven shelf so instead of the usual 2 baking sheets, I only needed to use 1. This not only saves on the washing up but also on energy costs, often I’ve made enough biscuits to cover say 3 to 4 medium baking trays and have had to keep the oven on for an extra 15 minutes baking the next batch.
So this baking sheet was a winner all round for its looks, the fact that my biscuits just glided off the sheet once baked and the saving to be made with regard to fuel efficiency & washing up!
How to make easy Red Nose Day Cookies
Once you’ve creamed your butter and sugar together, you add vanilla, food colouring & flour.
Roll 14 balls of dough & decorate with a cherry then bake.
Once cooled paint base with melted dark chocolate.
No-one is going to resist these beauties at a bake sale!
More Cookie Recipes for a Bake Sale
- Chocolate Melting Moments
- No-bake Cookies
- Easy Creme Egg Cookies
- Coconut Cookie Slices with Rum Glaze
- Danish Vanilla Wreaths
- Empire Biscuits
NB:: I was sent a voucher from Sainsbury’s to put towards the ingredients of my Red Nose Day Cookies and I received the Baking Sheet from George Wilkinson.
I’m sure you’ll love these Red Nose Day Cookies as they so easy to make and incredibly delicious!
Do share any photos of your cookies with me by tagging @FabFood4All on Instagram or any other social media! Plus leaving a comment and rating below is really helpful for other readers and makes me very happy!
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Red Nose Day Cookies
Ingredients
- 115 g / 4 oz Butter softened
- 55 g / 2 oz Caster sugar
- 140 g / 5 oz Self raising flour
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1 ½ tsp approx Red food colouring
- 14 Glace cherry halves
- 100 g / 3.5 oz Dark Chocolate
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 175°C.
- Grease 1 large or 2 medium sized baking sheets.
- Cream the butter and sugar together in a large bowl.
- Add vanilla extract and food colouring.
- Work in the flour gradually with a wooden spoon.
- Form into 14 balls by rolling between your palms.
- Place balls on baking sheet allowing room to spread and pop a glace cherry half on each.
- Bake for 13 - 15 minutes being careful not to let them brown.
- Allow the cookies to rest for 5 minutes and then transfer to a wire rack.
- Once cool, melt the chocolate in bowl over a pan of water barely simmering.
- Using a pastry brush, paint the base of each cookie with chocolate and allow to set chocolate side up.
- Once set take to your fund raising event and watch them fly!
June
Can I make up the mixture and leave it overnight before baking
Camilla
As they contain self raising flour I wouldn’t have thought so as the baking powder once in contact with moisture starts to release gas which you want to happen in the oven and not into the atmosphere.
Leila Benhamida
Nice, always a great treat.
Katerina
My son would love these cookies! They look so cute!
Camilla
Thanks, they taste great too:)
William Gould
Anything with “quick” in the title is fine by me….
Sarah Cooper
Will definitely be trying this one out.
Camilla
Great, enjoy:-)
Sarah James
What a fab idea for Red Nose Day, fun to make & delicious too.
Camilla
Thanks Sarah, yes they are rather yummy:-)
Margot @ Coffee & Vanilla
My girls would love those, very cute!
That reminds me I just got red food colouring, mostly with the Valentine’s in mind but it will work for the Red Nose Day as well. Thanks for inspiration 🙂
Camilla
Thanks Margot, they are great fun and super tasty:-)
Alex Telford
I’ll be swapping a bit of cocoa for the flour and adding choc drops too – Rudolph biscuits. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Camilla
An excellent idea:-) I think I tweeted that they looked a bit like Rudolf noses the other day:-)
William Gould
They look yummy! Could have a load of fun with different colours….
glenn hutton
These would be great for any day… amazing!
Camilla
Thanks, they are rather good:-)
Heather Haigh
Those are really cute. I do like fun food.
Camilla
They taste great too:-)
Maya Russell
Why wait for red nose day? These look super!
Camilla
Exactly, you can just leave the red food colouring out for every day use:-)
Lisa Williams
amazing these are stunning they look really delicious 🙂
Ang
Managed to subscribe to your emails so no more missed posts. These look lovely – perfect for the kids as well as the grownups.
Camilla
Thanks Angela. Thanks for subscribing, I’ve only done that for one blog which isn’t on Twitter because I tend to spend so much time on it I hopefully don’t miss any posts otherwise my e-mail box would be heaving:-)
Ren Behan
Lovely cookies very much in the spirit of Red Nose Day!
Camilla
Thank you Ren:-)
Jacqueline @How to be a Gourmand
This brought a wee smile to my face. This is a super way of doing something for comic relief 🙂
Camilla
Thanks Jacqueline:-)
Nell
These look great, I love a cherry and chocolate combo. I’m sure they would go well at a red nose bake sale
Camilla
Thank you and for dropping by:-)
Karen
Those look FAB Camilla, as in Ab Fab! I love the fact that they are red all over, that’s great! And chocolate dipped too, impressive! Karen
Camilla
Thank you Karen, I think we’ve covered all bases between us!
Janice
These are impressive! I might make some myself, although I think I’ll leave out the red food colouring.
Camilla
Thanks Janice, I’ve never been big on food colouring but I decided to have a bit of fun with these! I’m sure they would look really smart au-naturel and impress any tea time visitors at the farm:-)