Chocolate Chip Cookies

What you need:

6 oz butter
4 oz caster sugar
8 oz self-raising flour
4 oz chocolate chips

What you do:
Preheat the oven to 180oC, gas mark 4. Grease 2 baking sheets.
Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.

Using an electric whisk is quickest.
Sieve the flour into the bowl and fold it in, using a metal spoon to ‘cut’, lift and fold the mixture.
Fold in the chocolate chips.
Roll the dough into small balls and place on the greased baking sheets. Flatten them slightly and leave room between for them to spread out.
Cook for about 15 minutes until lightly browned. Leave to cool and firm up on a cooling rack. To be really bold melt milk chocolate and dip half the biscuit in and leave on wire rack to cool!

Valintine's Weekend

Miss Courtney's Tearooms is celebrating valentines weekend by stocking up on cute love themed baking after all love is ..... home baking! Our celebration this year is "I love me" yes we love our husbands, boyfriends and possibilities too but we certainly are well capable are loving ourselves and enjoying the weekend with our friends over teas and chats.

Alice in Wonderland

Tim Burton's Alice in wonderland is due for release in march 2010! We are so very excited and so ....................... I propose a Mad Hatters Tea Party ! I will post information when we have dates confirmed and let the fun begin. Also have a look at our facebook page to keep in contact with day to day items.

New year snow in killarney

No doubt about it the snow and ice brought with it complications and risk and slow slow business. BUT it also made us slow down a little, drive at a snails pace and on a few days stay indoors with our family. No harm I say. Doesn't snow make everywhere so beautiful and even better I suspect the low temperatures keep some of the nasty viruses at bay. I had two amazing days sledging and messing with my husband kids and friends and I head into the new year all the happier for it. A few extra stolen days is worth all the tea in china!

Christmas countdown!

Miss Courtney's loves Christmas ! We are so excited with all the festive baking arriving to the tearooms....... we hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and that you take some time out to enjoy the slower pace the holidays allow. Thank you for all your support and friendship during 2009.

Miss Courtney's Tearooms 100th Birthday Party

Last night I celebrated my 1st year in business AND our 100th year in business as a family..... Miss Margaret Courtney established her business in 1909 and what a privilege it is to be at the helm 100 years later. My daughter Anna is fifth in line ..... no pressure Anna! To celebrate we held an old fashioned tea dance with 1930's swing and lindyhop by Gary Baus, afternoon tea delights, champagne and pretty dresses aplenty! I enjoyed every second of it and the dancing was so much fun I wonder if we should consider a more regular social dancing night?. It was such a pleasure to have so many old and new friends together for the night and I would really like to thank all of you for your support help and friendship over the many years. Looking forward to more fun in the years ahead.

Afternoon tea..... in killarney

Miss Courtney's Tearooms adores the traditional afternoon tea .......... here is who we have to thank for it: Afternoon tea was introduced in England by Anna, the seventh Duchess of Bedford, in the year 1840. The Duchess would become hungry around four o'clock in the afternoon. The evening meal in her household was served fashionably late at eight o'clock, thus leaving a long period of time between lunch and dinner. The Duchess asked that a tray of tea, bread and butter and cake be brought to her room during the late afternoon. This became a habit of hers and she began inviting friends to join her.This pause for tea became a fashionable social event. During the 1880's upper-class and society women would change into long gowns, gloves and hats for their afternoon tea which was usually served in the drawing room between four and five o'clock.Traditional afternoon tea consists of a selection of dainty sandwiches (including of course thinly sliced cucumber sandwiches), scones served with clotted cream and preserves. Cakes and pastries are also served. Tea grown in India or Ceylon is poured from fine tea pots into delicate bone china cups.