Easy Peasy Cheese Twists

Jamie my oldest, has started doing cookery club at school.  Its fantastic.  Rather than me taking snacks to pick him up, he comes home with delicious treats.
Last week he came home with some delicious cheese twists.  They were gobbled up by all of us in seconds.


I have only made cheese twists with left over puff pastry before.  I find them a bit dry usually.  Jamies were soft and very moreish.

he was not the most generous in handing them round....so Abbi decided to make a batch for herself.  We made them to take to a community bbq this weekend.  Jamies recipe was lost somewhere on the way home, so we googled and found this, which Jamie thought was a close approximation to what he did.

A couple of adjustments, and we made two batches.

Ingredients:
100g of self raising flower
80g red leicester
50g Softened butter
1 teaspoon of mustard powder
Splash of milk to bind.

Method:
We cubed the butter, and mixed in the flour, rubbing in with our hands to get fine breadcrumb like texture.  Add the mustard powder and finely grated cheese until well mixed.  Add milk a tiny bit at a time and mix up with your hands, until you get a dough, and no crumbs at the bottom.  Add flour or milk to adjust until not sticky.

Flour your work surface, and rolling pin, and roll out the dough until approx 3mm thick.  Cut an oblong, and remove the scraps/offcuts to roll out again.

Cut this oblong into strips about 1cm wide (our first batch were about 2.5cm), and as long as you want....and depending upon the shape of your rolled out oblong.  Take the twists and place on a baking sheet lined with baking parchment.

Repeat until you have used up all the dough....The last few can be balls, (but keep them small, or bake them for slightly longer).


This made masses (the number depends on size obviously ) - These were wolfed down quickly.  They would be great with a salsa dip.

These were so easy.  Abbi made them herself with virtually no supervision

.......and even with the distraction of an annoying brother.