Sweet Goodies for You and your Cat

The Hand of a Breeder

A WEE CHRISTMAS TREAT FOR YOU!

SHORTBREAD KITTY COOKIES INGREDIENTS 250g butter, softened 1 cup icing sugar 1 cup cornflour 2 cups high grade standard flour ICING 3 tablespoons butter 1 cup icing sugar colouring or flavouring of your choice Warm water

DIRECTIONS • Preheat the oven to 130ºC. Line two baking trays with baking paper.

Cream the butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy. Sift the cornflour and flour together and add to the creamed mixture. Turn onto a floured surface and knead well

Roll dough and cut out into 24 square shapes using square cookie cutter. Next cut out 24 cat heads using a cat cookie cutter. or a bottle cap and pearce the ears with your fingers

Place cat head on top of the square and gently press together. Bake 10-15 minutes. DO NOT LET THEM BROWN... (Should be white when cooked)

Cool cookies completely before decorating.

AND...

ICING • Mix Icing sugar and butter together add colouring and /or flavour and little warm water , (Add water and mix slowly, not much is needed.) until you get the right consistency... Soft and fluffy, add more butter, icing sugar and less water. • You will need to make up however many different coloured icings you want to use separately. • Using the white icing, pipe icing on top of the cat head part of the cookies. Next, pipe red, green or white icing on the square part of the cookie. • While the icing is still wet, place assorted holiday sprinkles on top of the cookie so it resembles a gift box. • Pipe 2 small ovals for paws on top of gift box to resemble paws coming out of the using the white cookie icing. • Let icing on cookie dry completely. • Using a black edible marker, draw in face for the cats. (Available from spotlight or some supermarkets)

A COUPLE OF TREATS FOR THE KITTIES

INGREDIENTS 3/4 cup white flour 3/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese 5 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese 1/4 cup plain yogurt 1/4 cup cornmeal CHEEZY BITES

INGREDIENTS: 1 can tuna in oil, drained 1 egg 1 1/4 cups of flour, plus extra for dusting 1/2 cup water bottle cap for cutting out treats TUNA TASTY BITES

DIRECTIONS • Preheat the oven to 180.

Combine the cheddar and parmesan cheeses with the yogurt in a bowl.

Add the flour and cornmeal and mix well until a dough forms.

Knead the dough into a ball and roll out with a rolling pin to 1/4-inch thickness.

Cut the dough into one-inch sized pieces and place on greased cookie sheet.

DIRECTIONS: • Preheat oven to 180.

In a food processor mix tuna, egg, flour, water and parsley until a dough forms. If the dough looks too sticky, add a bit more flour.

Dust a surface with flour and roll out dough to 1/2 inch thick.

Use a bottle cap to cut out treats from the dough.

RUNNER UP

A HUGE THANKS TO NUTRIENCE For supplying us the 1.5 kg bags of biscuits for our winner and runner up Christmas Cats.

WINNER IS: COVER CAT - CORNERSTONE QUIET DEVOTION & BIG SISTER ABBY SHAW.- Owned by Chantal Shaw and Bred by Sandra Broomfield, photo submitted by Susan Edwards. RUNNER UP: DOUBLE GRAND PREMIER PEPPERBOX MYTEE MIDNIGHT. Photo submitted by Owner Leslie Parker.