Snickers Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients - Serves 4
1 cup butter (softened)
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup peanut butter
2 eggs
2 ó cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoons salt
1 package Reeses Peanut Butter Chips
1 bag snickers (mini size, and/or Milky Ways)

Method Prep 20 min › Cook 11 min › Ready in 31 mins

Preheat oven to 325 F. Cream butter, sugars and peanut butter. Add eggs. Stir or whisk together flour, soda and salt. Add to creamed butter mixture and mix well. Stir in peanut butter chips. Roll into balls or use a cookie scoop. Cut the chocolate bars in half and place the cut side down on top of the rounded cookie and press down gently. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Remove from oven and leave cookies on cookie sheet for 2 minutes to rest. Slide parchment with cookies onto cooling rack and let cool for ten minutes. Remove from parchment to cooling rack to cool completely. If you try to eat these cookies while still warm they may fall apart. Allow them to cool completely and they’ll be fine.

Head Scratchers of The Month - February

I hope you all enjoyed Einstein’s riddle last month, it was a bit different to all the other riddles we publish and certainly one to test your patience. Be sure to let us know if any of you managed to solve, I hope I’m not the only one!

Now onto this month, we have 5 for you this month, fingers crossed they don’t drive you too crazy! Here’s a nice easy one to get you started.

What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

Now a slightly more testing one.

A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

Did everyone get that one? It’s so easy once you know the answer! Here’s your next one, this is a lot harder and I will give you a clue.... there is no need for a calculator.

How can the number four be half of five?

Hat’s off to anybody who solved that riddle, when I heard that one I gave up! Now, unless you’ve seen this one before you’ll have to be a real clever clogs to work this one out, took me ages!

You will always find me in the past. I can be created in the present, but the future can never taint me. What am I?

See what I mean? Drove me crazy that one. It was right on the tip of my tongue the entire time.

I’ve got a nice easy one here for you to finish up, you should all get this one and I’ll even give you a little clue, the answer isn’t a brown dog with no legs.

What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

Once again answer on the index page, don’t go giving up to easy!
 

Sing - Family Movie

Starring the voices of Matthew McConaughey, Seth MacFarlane, Tori Kelly, Reese Witherspoon, Taron Egerton & Scarlett Johansson.

Set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals, Sing stars Buster Moon, a dapper Koala who presides over a once-grand theatre that has fallen on hard times. Buster is an eternal optimist - okay, maybe a bit of a scoundrel - who loves his theatre above all and will do anything to preserve it. Now facing the crumbling of his life’s ambition, he has one final chance to restore his fading jewel to its former glory by producing the world’s greatest singing competition.

Five lead contestants emerge: A mouse who croons as smoothly as he cons, a timid teenage elephant with an enormous case of stage fright, an overtaxed mother run ragged tending a litter of 25 piglets, a young gangster gorilla looking to break free of his family’s felonies, and a punk-rock porcupine struggling to shed her arrogant boyfriend and go solo. Each animal arrives under Buster’s marquee believing that this is their shot to change the course of their life.

Featuring more than 85 hit songs, Sing is written and directed by Garth Jennings (Son of Rambow, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) and produced by Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy.

What Expenses To Claim

If you’re self-employed, your business will have various running costs. You can deduct some of these costs to work out your taxable profit as long as they’re allowable expenses. Doing this will decrease the amount of tax you have to pay. Allowable expenses don’t include money taken from your business to pay for private purchases. Costs you can claim as allowable expenses. These include; Office costs, eg stationery or phone bills, Travel costs, eg fuel, parking, train fare Clothing expenses, e.g. uniforms, Staff costs, eg salaries, outsourcing costs, Things you buy to sell on Financial costs, eg insurance or bank charges, Costs of your business premises, Advertising or marketing, eg website costs. Contact the Self Assessment helpline if you’re not sure whether a business cost is an allowable expense on 0300 200 3310.

Costs you can claim as capital allowances

If you use traditional accounting, claim capital allowances when you buy something you keep to use in your business, eg: Equipment or Machinery or Business vehicles. If you use something for both business and personal reasons, you can only claim allowable expenses for the business costs. For example, your mobile phone bills for the year total £200. Of this, you spend £130 on personal calls and £70 on business. You can claim for £70 of business expenses. If you work from home, you may be able to claim a proportion of your costs for things like: heating, electricity, council Tax, mortgage interest or rent, internet and telephone use. You’ll need to find a reasonable method of dividing your costs, eg by the number of rooms you use for business or the amount of time you spend working from home. If you have 4 rooms in your home, one of which you use only as an office. Divide them by 4.

www.gov.uk/expenses-if-youre-self-employed