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<h4>You're browser does not support iFrames - here is an exerpt of the content</h4> <a href="http://allotment2kitchen.blogspot.com/2009/11/ultimate-dunkable-carrot-biscuit.html">Click here to read the article in full</a> <p>Carrots – Bugs Bunny’s favourite food hardly needs an introduction as it is well known by even the smallest child. The health benefits of carrots are also legendary. Many of us have been told that eating carrots would keep your eyesight bright and allow you to see better in the dark.</p> <p>Carrots belong to the <em>Umbelliferae</em> family, named after the umbrella like flower clusters that plants in this family produce. Carrots are related to other <a title="vegetables" href="http://gardenersvoice.com/category/vegetables/">vegetables</a> such as <a title="parsnips" href="http://gardenersvoice.com/category/parsnips/">parsnips</a> and fennel; and herbs such as caraway, cumin and dill. The carrot is a plant with a thick and fleshy root. It grows underground and has feathery fern like green leaves that emerge above ground making it easy for one to pull out with ease. There are over 100 different varieties of carrots that vary in size, flavour and colour. While we usually associate carrots with the colour orange, in fact, carrots grow in various colours including white, yellow, red and purple, the latter being the original colour. This year I have grown: <em>Kuttiger; Autumn King; Baby; Chatenay, Rainbow, Yellowstone, Purple Haze </em>and <em>Resistafly. </em><br /><em></em><br />Over the past few months I have eaten carrots in a variety of ways: simply shredded raw in salads, as a nutritious soup, as c<em>rudités </em>and even in recipes such as <a href="http://allotment2kitchen.blogspot.com/2009/08/mosaic-carrot-and-green-bean-pie.html">mosaic carrot and green bean pie</a>, <a href="http://allotment2kitchen.blogspot.com/2009/08/courgettte-baby-carrots-and-mint-flan.html">courgette, baby carrot and mint flan</a>, <a href="http://allotment2kitchen.blogspot.com/2009/08/almost-pretty-as-picture.html">carrot and runner bean flan</a>, and even a <a href="http://allotment2kitchen.blogspot.com/2009/10/rainbow-carrot-cake.html">rainbow carrot cake</a>, some of which I would encourage you to try. This time however, I decided to make some biscuits with a <em>purple haze</em> carrot (which was orange on the inside), as well as turn them into carrot shapes. Well how else was I going to get your attention?! I think even Bugs Bunny would approve!<br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0W_QqQJyAQw/SvRt2615peI/AAAAAAAADck/AP_qACOKCKg/s1600-h/carrot+biscuits.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401062643399763426" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0W_QqQJyAQw/SvRt2615peI/AAAAAAAADck/AP_qACOKCKg/s400/carrot+biscuits.jpg" /></a> I am submitting these to Weekend Herb Blogging#208 or WHB as it is fondly known by. The weekly event was originally founded by Kalyn of <a href="http://kalynskitchen.blogspot.com/">Kalyn’s Kitchen</a> and now coordinated by Haalo of <a href="http://cookalmostanything.blogspot.com/">Cook (almost) Anything</a>. Haalo is also our host this week. This week there ‘s a bit of difference too as Weekend Herb Blogging celebrates its 4th birthday (<em>Hip hip hooray</em>) and with that it gets a brand new logo, which I will soon be showcasing in my sidebar. I am so grateful to WHB as it gives me the opportunity to showcase my food made with my home-grown produce. Thank you WHB.<br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0W_QqQJyAQw/SvRtgTBfu3I/AAAAAAAADb8/g7DVVp66VbE/s1600-h/carrot+biscuits2.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401062254753856370" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0W_QqQJyAQw/SvRtgTBfu3I/AAAAAAAADb8/g7DVVp66VbE/s400/carrot+biscuits2.jpg" /></a> So why carrot shapes, some of you may be asking or maybe not, but I am going to tell you anyway. I am not a tweeter, my life is pretty uneventful to sign up to that, plus I can barely text (really). But I do <em>like reading </em>other food blogs, bloggers comments and exchanging ideas. It was a comment by a fellow blogger on my <a title="lavender" href="http://gardenersvoice.com/category/lavender/">lavender</a> scones, that prompted me to make squash scones in the shape of pumpkins, which then made me think even more creatively when I came to make these carrot biscuits, hence the carrot shape (made without a cookie cutter). I do enjoy reading your comments, so please do continue share your thoughts and inspire. <div> <div> <div><strong>Apple and Carrot Biscuits</strong></div> <div>Makes about 12 – 16</div> <div><strong>Ingredients</strong></div> <div>225g plain flour</div> <div>1/4 teaspoon baking powder</div> <div>a pinch of salt</div> <div>150g unsalted butter</div> <div>100g golden caster sugar</div> <div>50g carrots, grated (I used purple haze)</div> <div>25g eating apple, grated (I used British Spartan)</div> <div><strong>Method</strong></div> <div>Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add in the grated carrot and apple into the flour mixture, then fold into the creamed butter. Knead to a soft dough. Rest for half an hour in the fridge. When you are ready to cook the biscuits, roll out into 1/2 thick and mark into wedges <em>or</em> use a cookie cutter. Fork over the dough and bake on a non-stick surface for about 15 minutes. Leave to cool before cutting.</div> <div> </div> <div>I have seen various carrot and apple shortbread recipes recently, but I originally came across this culinary combination a few good years ago in Tamasin Day-Lewis (yes Daniel Day-Lewis’s sister) cook book <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Tempered-Food-Recipes-linger/dp/0297843060">Good Tempered Food</a> on which my recipe is based. 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