Melting Moments Recipe

Description

Melt-in-the-mouth biscuit-like cakes with crunchy outsides.

Margarine	100 g
Caster sugar	75 g
Self raising flour	125 g
Egg (chicken)	0.5
Cornflakes (breakfast cereal)	sufficient to cover

Oven. Mixing bowl. Bowl or plate for cornflakes. Knife to mix with. Scales (or just estimate). Baking sheet. Greaseproof paper. Electric mixer.

Turn on oven to warm up to 180°C.
Put the sugar and margarine into a mixing bowl (sugar first to reduce sticking) and cream it (i.e. whisk with the mixer until it goes pale).
Mix in all the egg, vanilla & flour.
Line baking tray with greaseproof paper.
Crush the cornflakes.
Form the cake mixture into balls (about 3 cm diameter), roll them in the crushed cornflakes and put them on the tray leaving space for them to flatten out.
Wash hands (before everything else in the kitchen gets greasy).
Bake 15 to 20 min (ready when the cakes start to brown on the surface).
Allow to cool until hard.

These take very little effort & relatively little time (other than the 20-30 min for cooking & cooling) to make & do not require any special ingredients that I don't usually have in my kitchen so it is a cake I make if a cake is required for an event a short notice.
Unfortunately they do not keep well &, even if stored in a sealed container, they go stale in less than 2 days. Of course this is not a problem if one is making them for immediate consumption at an event.
Legally these are 'biscuits' not 'cakes' in the UK because of a ruling that cakes are the type goes dry whereas biscuits are the type that goes soggy when stale. (The reason the UK bothers with a legal definition is that cakes & biscuits are taxed differently. Of course this is irrelevant for giving away the cakes/biscuits or consuming them oneself.)

A passed-down family recipe but I don't know when or from where my mother got it.