Last month Vanessa Kimbell, author of the gorgeous book Prepped! created a blogging event called random bakes of kindness. The idea was to bake something and give it away to a deserving person.
These biscuits are for my mother-in-law. Recently she has been suffering from ill health and as a result, has been feeling quite low. She now lives alone so we always make a point of popping in to see her for a cup of tea and a biscuit. She loves home baking but doesn’t have the energy to make anything these days. So whenever I come over armed with a baking tin, it never fails to puts a smile on her face.
The biscuits I chose to make are known as either melting moments or cornflake biscuits and they are quite an old fashioned recipe. I have no idea where the recipe originated from but my mother-in-law recently recalled a recipe she loved years ago where they rolled the biscuits in crushed cornflakes before baking them. Not having seen anything similar in any of my cookery books, I did a quick google search and sure enough, I found a recipe.
Melting Moments/cornflake biscuits
5 ounces soft butter
3 ounces caster sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla essence or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
5 ounces self raising flour
crushed cornflakes
glace cherries
Heat oven to 180ºC, 350ºF, Gas Mark 4. Grease two baking trays.
Cream the butter or margarine with the sugar until very light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla essence or extract. Stir in the flour and mix well.
Roll walnut sized pieces of the mixture into balls and toss in crushed cornflakes. Cut each glace cherry into quarters, for quarter for each melting moment.
Place on baking trays, flatten slightly and place a small piece of cherry on each biscuit. Bake for 10-15 minutes until golden brown.
Thank you so much Vanessa for coming up with this truly brilliant idea. I was thrilled to be a part of it!
What a great idea for an event. Your biscuits sound lovely, although I hadn't heard of the cornflake technique either.
These sound delicious and I'm sure they were appreciated. This is my firs tvisit to your blog, so I took some time to browse through your earlier posts. I'm so glad I did that. I really like the food and recipes you feature here and I'll definitely be back. I hope you have a great day. Blessings…Mary
another recipe we will have to try…thought it was coconut when I first looked, I guess that's the cornflakes. They sound lovely!
Oh this brings back memories. These were one of my mum's staple bakes and I remember rolling the mixture in cornflakes for her. Great idea for a challenge.
Melting moments! These bring back memories. I must give these a try. Isn't the RBOK a lovely idea? Pleased to have found you. Thanks for the lovely comments.
I love melhing moments – they were one of the first things I made at school and I still love them just as much
It's years since I tried these – must be rectified soon. Who couldn't be cheered up when they see those cherries on top. It's such a lovely idea – hope to join in next time.
Awww, that's really sweet of you to bake these for your MIL!a nice old fashioned recipe
I've been meaning to make melting moments for a while now as I haven't made them since I was a teenager. Cornflakes is a new one on me, but I can imagine they worked well.
wow they sound really good, Ive never heard of them before but I really want to try them now I know about them!
What a gorgeous idea and beautiful biscuits.
Thanks everyone 🙂 I would describe these biscuits as "homely", they wouldn't win any beauty contests but they taste delicious and there is something really comforting about them 🙂
I love old-fashioned recipes like these and glacé cherries do it for me everytime! Though, it's interesting that you call these "Melting Moments" because in Australia, Melting Moments are more like shortbread biscuits sandwiched together with a cream or icing. I wouldn't say no to either 🙂