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different plates on the end creates various biscuit shapes, as dough is extruded. I enjoyed the nostalgia of creating “slaters” and “flowers”, familiar from my childhood. The press is fiddly, makes lots of dirty dishes and, being quite worn, the dough leaks up behind the forcer. More time-consuming than my normal tactile technique of round balls squashed flat, but the result was worth it.

Magic Cookies

2 cups sifted flour

250g soft butter

1/4 tsp salt

2/3 cup sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla (or whatever flavouring you like) Blend everything together in a food processor. Or cream butter and sugar. Add egg, then flour, flavouring, and salt, and mix well.

Chilling for half an hour makes it less sticky to handle.

The dough rolls out easily and shapes can be cut with biscuit cutters.

Bake on greased tray in a 200-degree oven for 10 to 12 minutes (depending on thickness of cookies). When cool, they can be stuck together with butter icing, so I now have chocolate kisses in the cookie jar.

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Aro is made up of husband and wife Charles Looker (Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Te Ata, Te Ati Awa) and Emily Looker (née Rice). The bilingual duo share a passion for the power of language and music to tell stories and remind us of our cultural identity. Enjoy the storytelling waiata of Emily and Charles of Aro as they present a collection of new songs celebrating stories of our natural heritage in Aotearoa, including award-nominated waiata about the native birdlife of this land and songs inspired by marine life that live in the waters off the coasts of this stunning country.

This refreshing performance includes elements of folk, soul, haka, and a touch of jazz to bring audiences of all ages together in a celebration of the natural world that surrounds us. Aro perform songs in a mix of Te Reo Māori and English, blending the two worlds of Charles and Emily in song.

Aro are best described as multi-genre offering of storytelling pop, RnB, electronic and jazz, fusing vocals, tāonga puoro and chants, who write waiata which thematically explore the ideas of kaitiakitanga and manaakitanga – looking after ourselves, looking after each other and looking after our environment.

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