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Mince Pie Cookies

It’s officially Bakemas 2019! 🎉

If it’s your first bakemas here, welcome. It is my annual mini-series in which I show you how to make a various Christmas themed baked goods – perfect if you want to impress your family and friends or if you’re hosting a Christmas party!

Today’s recipe is for the first batch of cookies during bakemas this year, here is the recipe for a batch of mince pie cookies… They are a festive take on a cookie but just as welcome.

If you like mince pies, these cookies are going to be perfect for you. These would also be ideal at a Christmas party or get together. So, these cookies are studded with raisins and sultanas, filled with mincemeat and topped with a quarter of mince pie on-top and finished with a dusting of icing sugar.

Anyway, let’s get started, shall we?

Ingredients:

75g Butter.

75g Granulated sugar.

75g Light brown sugar.

1 Egg.

1 tsp Vanilla extract.

175g Plain flour.

1/2 tsp Ground mixed spice.

50g Raisins.

50g Sultanas.

Mincemeat (a small jar will be more than enough).

Mince pies, cut into quarters.

Icing sugar, to dust.

Method:

Before you get into making the cookies, you’ll want to do some prep. Weigh up all of your ingredients, preheat the oven to 180˚/350˚f, line your baking trays with greaseproof/parchment and get any equipment you intend to use ready.

Into a large mixing bowl, place the butter, granulated sugar and the light brown sugar and beat them together on a medium-high speed until they are well combined.

You can then add in the egg and vanilla and beat until they have been fully worked in. You’ll notice a change in consistency as they are worked in, this is completely normal.

Add in the plain flour, baking powder, ground mixed spice, raisins and sultanas and mix on a medium speed to start, working your way up to medium-high speed. Mix just until a clear dough forms, being careful not to over-mix the dough, otherwise the cookies will be quite tough.

Give your bowl a good scraping down and incorporate any bits that haven’t been fully worked into the dough earlier on.

Grab yourself a cookie scoop and take 2 scoops of cookie dough per cookie, flattening both balls of dough. Onto 1 half of the cookie dough place some of the mincemeat and secure that in place with the other ball of cookie dough, roll together and place onto your lined baking tray.

Place the cookies in the oven to bake for around 12-13 minutes (or until they are golden brown around the edges).

Once baked, remove from the oven and place a quarter of mince pie on top of each cookie, the transfer to a cooling rack to cool fully. When you intend on serving them, dust them with a light coat of icing sugar.

That’s all for today guys, I hope you enjoyed. If you did, don’t forget to share this recipe with your family and friends and enjoy it. I’ll be back soon with another blog post and YouTube video, so join me then. In the meanwhile, don’t forget to check out my Instagram and Twitter. The YouTube video will be linked down below.

Red Velvet Cookies

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Happy Halloween!

Today I have a batch of red velvet cookies, which can be made and finished in under an hour… Perfect if you’re having a Halloween party or have trick or treaters knocking the door.

Halloween is something I like but this year and the last haven’t been the best for me to celebrate. Maybe next year I’ll be able to make more Halloween goodies to share with you.

I know these cookies aren’t exactly a Halloween exclusive bake but the bright red colour fits the theme perfectly. They are chocolate and vanilla flavoured with white chocolate chips in the dough and to finish – he perfect combo, right?

Anyway, these cookies are perfect all year round and not just for Halloween. So why don’t you join me as I show you how to make a batch of these cookies?

Let’s get started, shall we?

Ingredients:

75g Butter.

75g Light brown sugar.

75g Granulated sugar.

1 Egg.

1 tsp Vanilla extract.

150g Plain flour.

25g Cocoa powder.

½ tsp Baking powder.

Pinch of salt.

Red food colouring (gel or paste).

100g White chocolate chips.

Method:

Before you get into making these cookies, you’ll want to do some prep work. Preheat your oven to 180˚c/350˚f, line your baking trays with greaseproof paper/parchment, weigh up all your ingredients and prepare any other equipment you may be using.

To start making the cookies, you’ll want to take your mixing bowl (I’m using my stand mixer but feel free to use a hand mixer and a mixing bowl) and place the butter, light brown sugar and granulated sugar into it. Beat them all together over medium-high speed until they are all well combined.

Once they are all combined, you can then stop the mixer and give the bowl a good scraping down. This is just to incorporate any bits that may not have been worked in from earlier on.

Add in your egg and mix on a medium-high speed, as the egg incorporates you’ll notice that the consistency changes, this is what you want. Add in the vanilla extract and mix until its fully incorporated.

Give the bowl another good scraping down, to incorporate any bits that haven’t been fully worked in.

Add the plain flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt into the bowl, passing through a sieve first to remove any lumps (cocoa powder quite often clumps up and causes lumps). Start the mix on a low-medium speed, working your way up to a medium-high.

Once the dry ingredients have started to incorporate, you can start adding the red food colouring. If the colour doesn’t look too red, it will darken as it develops (this is common with red and black) plus when it bakes, it will darken in colour. I recommend using a concentrated food colouring, nothing too liquidy.

Now all of the dry ingredients and food colouring have been added, you can give the bowl a scrape down then add in the white chocolate chips and fold them in by hand using a silicon spatula, mix until they are fairly distributed.

If your dough is a little sticky, cover the bowl with cling film/plastic wrap and place in the fridge for 30-60 minutes and it should help with making the dough less sticky.

You can then take two scoops of dough per cookie. Rolling the two balls together until they form one, place it onto your lined baking tray and flatten slightly. They will spread so on a standard baking tray I place 6 cookies at a time. Adjust the amount per tray depending on your baking tray size.

Bake the cookies for 12-15 minutes, I normally go with 12-13 minutes but seeing as all ovens are different, it may take more time, depending.

Now that the cookies are baked. Take from the oven and top with a few more chocolate chips, I mean who doesn’t want more chocolate in a cookie?!

Allow them to cool for around 5 minutes on the baking tray, before transferring to a cooling rack, where you can leave them to cool fully.

So, that’s how I would normally make a batch of my red velvet cookies. You get the chocolate and vanilla flavour along with white chocolate – is there anything more you could ask for?

That’s all for this week guys, I hope you enjoyed. If you did, don’t forget to share this recipe with your family and friends and enjoy it. I’ll be back next week with another blog post and YouTube video, so join me then. In the meanwhile, don’t forget to check out my Instagram and Twitter. The YouTube video will be linked down below.

White Chocolate Cookies

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Today I’ll be showing you how to make a batch of white chocolate cookies. A baking staple, made simple.

These cookies are great, especially seeing as they can be made and completed in under 60 minutes, because when you’re craving a cookie, you don’t want to wait ages for them. I’m just being honest…

I’ll be honest, when it comes to white chocolate, I can take it or leave it BUT in these cookies, it works super well! Adding vanilla extract to the dough really helps to flavour the dough and enhance the white chocolate.

As with all my recipes, before you get started, you’ll want to do some prep work. Get your ingredients measured/weighed up, prepare your tin (if you want to, I didn’t but you know your tin) and get any equipment you may need ready. Taking these few extra steps can lower the chance of making a mistake.

Let’s get started, shall we?

150g Butter.

150g Granulated sugar.

150g Light brown sugar.

2 Eggs.

1 tsp Vanilla extract.

350g Plain flour.

1 tsp Baking powder.

¼ tsp Salt.

100g White chocolate cho[s (for in the cookies).

Additional white chocolate chips (for the tops of the cookies).

Method:

Before you get into making the cookies, you’ll want to do some prep work. Start by weighing up your ingredients, line your baking trays (if you do this, I occasionally do this) and preheat your oven to 180˚c/350˚f. Get any equipment you need ready at this point also.

Into your mixing bowl of choice, add your butter, light brown sugar and granulated sugar and mix on a medium/high speed until they are well combined.

You can then add in your eggs one at a time, beating well in-between each addition. You can add in your vanilla extract at this stage as well, either in with the eggs or at the end, either way will work well, it just needs to be incorporated.

Next, you’ll want to add in the plain flour, baking powder and salt. Make sure that you pass them through a sieve first, to remove any lumps that may be in the dry mix.

Add in the white chocolate chips, then mix on a low/slow speed just until a dough has formed, try your best not to over-mix at this stage.

Give the bowl a quick scrape down just to incorporate any bits that didn’t get fully incorporated in on the first mix.

Take your cookie scoop and scoop two balls of dough for each cookie, roll them together and then place onto a baking tray, then squash down using your hand and round off using a large enough round cookie cutter to help them be more rounded and that will help them bake rounder.

Repeat the above step with the remainder of your cookie dough, until you have no dough remaining.

Bake the cookies off in your preheated oven and bake for 10-12 minutes or until the edges of the cookies are a golden-brown colour. Be-aware that these cookies spread while baking.

Once out of the oven place additional chocolate chips on top of each cookie. Then allow to cool on the tray for a few minutes, then transfer to a cooking rack to cool fully.

You can enjoy them while they are warm or allow them to cool down completely and enjoy with a glass of milk or a mug of tea/coffee.

Vanilla Sprinkle Cookies

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Today I’ll be showing you how to make a batch of my vanilla sprinkle cookies. They are quick and easy to make – what’s not to love?

This recipe is perfect if you’re in a rush and don’t have the time to be in the kitchen for over an hour or if you want to bake with your kids, this is the quickest (and tastiest option).

I have opted to flavour mine with vanilla, mostly because it’s a flavour enjoyed by most but it can be fully customised to suit you (or whoever else may be eating them) and the sprinkles were just standard rainbow sprinkles.

Let’s get started, shall we?

Ingredients:

150g Butter.

150g Granulated sugar.

150g Light brown sugar.

2 Eggs.

1 tsp Vanilla extract.

350g Plain flour.

1 tsp Baking powder.

¼ tsp Salt.

50g Rainbow sprinkles (for in the cookies).

Additional rainbow sprinkles for the top of the cookies (added before baking).

Method:

Before you get into making the cookies, you’ll want to do some prep work. Start by weighing up all of your ingredients, line your baking trays (if you do this) and preheat your oven to 180˚c/350˚f. Get any equipment you need ready at this point also.

Into your mixing bowl of choice, add your butter, light brown sugar and granulated sugar and mix on a medium/high speed until they are well combined.

Once they are all combined, give the bowl a scrape down to incorporate any bits that may not have been fully worked in.

Next, you’ll want to add in the plain flour, baking powder and salt. Make sure that you pass them through a sieve first, to remove any lumps that may be in the dry mix. Add in the rainbow sprinkles, then mix on a low/slow speed just until a dough has formed, try your best not to over-mix at this stage.

Give the bowl a quick scrape down just to incorporate any bits that didn’t get fully incorporated in on the first mix.

Take your cookie scoop and scoop two balls of dough for each cookie. Dip the top of eat cookie dough ball into the rainbow sprinkles and place onto a baking tray, then squash down using your hand and round off using a large enough round cookie cutter to help them be more rounded and bake rounder.

Repeat the above step with the remainder of your cookie dough.

Bake the cookies off in your preheated oven and bake for 10-12 minutes or until the edges of the cookies are a golden brown colour. Be-aware that these cookies spread while baking.

Once out of the oven, allow to cool on the tray for a few minutes, then transfer to a cooking rack to cool fully.

Once cooled (or slightly warm), pour yourself a glass of milk and enjoy with the cookies.

Zero Waste Raisin Oatmeal Cookies | The Clean Kilo

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Today I’ll be showing you how to make my favourite cookies of all time, raisin oatmeal! These are a chunky variation, perfect for dunking in milk.

Today’s post is a little different to my usual as I tried a zero waste supermarket. In the past few months I’ve seen a few documentaries about how our food and plastic waste are at ridiculous levels, so I decided to make a change and cut mine down to the very minimum I can. Since January 1st 2019, I’ve managed to get my waste down by 75% and all done by making changes which were easy to implement. While buying your ingredients in bulk from the supermarket or wholesale may work out more convenient or cheaper, how much of the packaging is recyclable? How many of you are going to put the ingredients into jars/container once you’re

I had seen these zero waste shops before but never really tried one before as it seemed confusing but its far from it. The nearest one for me is in Digbeth, Birmingham and it’s called The Clean Kilo. If you haven’t visited before, you’re missing out. I would recommend taking your own jars and/or containers but if don’t have any, don’t worry, they have some you can purchase in-store.

The Clean Kilo offers a wide range of products from baking ingredients, dried fruit and eggs through to oils and vinegar, locally grown vegetables and nuts & seeds, perfect for when you may need an exact amount – the prices are very competitive.

The aim of zero waste shopping is to lower the amount of packaging wastage as well as food waste. I don’t know about you but I’m guilty of buying a certain ingredient that I may not use every time I bake, then it gets stored (and sometimes forgotten abou) and I may not need it until it’s gone past the use by date and that’s not only annoying but also wasteful. If you’re like that, don’t forget FIFO (first in first out), that’s the one super useful thing I learnt at college.

The one thing I wasn’t sure about was how it all worked I regards to weighing and getting the final price, it’s actually really simple. The day I visited the women working behind the counter was called Dominika and she was really helpful and informative which was great, she couldn’t have been more helpful. When it comes to weighing and measuring your ingredients, you’ll want to start by getting your empty container and placing it onto the scales, then print out the sticker (this sticker is simply for the weight of the container, keep this one on the container if you intend on using it again in the future, you won’t have to print another one off that way), then you go and fill your container with the product you wish, go back to the scales then scan the bar code on the sticker you printed out earlier on and reweigh the container and print out your final sticker which is the price you’ll pay. Finally you can then go and pay and know you’ve saved some packaging waste from going into the bin.

I’d seen some videos and blog posts online where people had tried zero waste recipes and this would normally be fairly hard, unless you have a local shop. If you’d like to see more zero waste recipes from me, let me know by commenting on the blog post. This is something that’s helping to prevent both packaging and food waste.

Making these cookies doesn’t take too long, to make, so you don’t need an awful lot of time to make them.

Ingredients:

100g Butter.

100g Golden Caster Sugar.

100g Light Brown Sugar.

1 Egg.

225g Plain Flour.

1/2 tsp Baking Powder.

150g Oats.

100g Raisins.

Method:

Before you start on these cookies, you’ll want to do some prep work. Weigh up all your ingredients, line a baking tray with greaseproof/parchment paper and preheat your oven to 180˚c/350˚f.
Start your cookies by placing the butter, golden caster sugar and light brown sugar into a bowl and beat on a medium-high speed until they are well combined.
Once they are all combined give your bowl a good scrape down and add in your egg and mix on a medium speed until it’s fully incorporated.
Give your bowl a good scrape down, to incorporate any bits that haven’t been fully worked in.
Sift in your dry ingredients and mix them in on a low-medium speed until almost fully incorporated, then add in the oats and raisins and give a mix until the flour is fully incorporated and the oats and raisins are well distributed within the dough.
The dough doesn’t require being chilled before use, so you can use it straight away.
Take a cookie scoop and scoop up two balls of dough per cookie, roll them together into one and he flatten them slightly before placing onto your baking tray, these cookies don’t spread very much while baking.

Place the baking tray into your preheated oven and bake for 8-10 minutes or until slightly coloured around the edge.

Once out of the oven, an optional finish would be to add a few raisins on top.

Allow to cool on the baking tray until fully cooled, then enjoy them. I had mine with a glass of cold milk!

*These cookies can be frozen before being baked, just make sure that they are flattened before you freeze them or after they are baked, just keep them wrapped in clingfilm/plastic wrap.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Cupcakes

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Do you like chocolate chip cookies? Do you like cupcakes? Why not combine the two to make these super simple and delicious cupcakes?

These cupcakes are the perfect treat at any time of year but even better around Christmas, they are the perfect treat to leave out for Father Christmas on Christmas Eve (or scoffed down on Christmas day, I’m not judging!).

Anyway, you can make either the cookies or cupcakes first but I went with the cookies. These are the same cookies I have made in the past, they have a great flavour and are the perfect size to top the cupcakes with. By combining the two simple elements, you get a very tasty treat that isn’t too complex to make or in flavour.

Before you do any baking, you’ll want to do some prep work – this will save you time in the long run and stop you faffing about later on. Preheat your oven to 180˚c/350˚f, line your baking tray with some greaseproof/parchment paper, place the cupcake cases into your muffin pan and weigh up all your ingredients into suitable size bowls. Don’t forget to wipe down the counters and get your mixer ready.

I started by making the chocolate chip cookies but you can start with either, it doesn’t matter.

To start on the cookies, get yourself a large bowl and place the butter, granulated white sugar and light brown sugar into it. Mix the three together over a medium-high speed until they are well combined and you can’t see a trace of a single ingredient. Once they’ve become fully combined, give your bowl a good scraping down – this is to work in any bits that haven’t been fully worked in, then add in your eggs one at a time, beating well in-between each addition. Add in your vanilla and give a quick mix to combine it – the scrape down the sides and bottom of your bowl again to incorporate any bits that haven’t been fully worked in.

Sieve your dry ingredients into the same bowl, then add in your chocolate chips and mix on a low-medium speed until everything has combined, once its all come together it will be a dough that will hold it’s shape well. Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl again, then start to scoop up the dough (granted this recipe will result in more cookies than you’ll need but you can scoop each ball of dough up, then wrap them up and freeze them, or bake them all off and have a few left over to enjoy). I only used one ball of dough for each cookie and flattened it slightly then baked in your preheated oven for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown around the edge.

Once out the oven, place a few additional chocolate chips on top of each cookie then allow to cool on the baking tray for a few minutes before transferring onto a cooling rack, to cool completely.

Now it’s time to make the cupcakes and buttercream…

Making the cupcakes is super simple, start by placing the butter and granted white sugar into a mixing bowl and beat the two together until they are lighter and fluffier in colour and consistency, this only takes a couple of minutes. Once you’ve achieved that, scrape down the sides and bottom of your bowl to incorporate any bits that may not have been fully worked in earlier on. Add in your eggs, one at a time, beating well to incorporate each one. Try not to scramble the mixture, but if this happens, don’t worry, you’ll be able to fix this by adding dry ingredients very soon. Once the eggs have been fully incorporated, add in the vanilla and just mix to combine – scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl again.

Add in the dry ingredients by passing them through a sieve first, this is to remove any lumps that may appear in the mix. Incorporate the dry ingredients into the buttery mixture over a low-medium speed to start with, working your way up to a medium speed and allow the mixture to come together until there isn’t a trace of a single ingredient to be seen, also at this point you’ll want to add in the chocolate chips- try not to over-mix the batter at this stage, otherwise your cupcakes will be tougher textured than they should be. Divide the batter between your lined cupcake cases (I used a piping bag but feel free to use two spoons). Bake the cupcakes in the preheated oven for 20-22 minutes.

While the cupcakes are in the oven baking, feel free to make the buttercream. This is so simple and it requires only 3 ingredients – what’s not to love? Place your butter into a bowl and beat it until its lighter and fluffier in consistency – this takes a couple of minutes but is totally worth the time invested. Once lighter, scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl and add in half the icing sugar, then beat on a low speed to start, working your way up to a medium-high speed for a couple of minutes, then stopping the mixer, scraping it down and adding in the other half of the icing sugar and repeat the process. Once all of the icing sugar has been worked in, add in the vanilla and give a good mix to fully incorporate. That’s how simple buttercream is. Set aside while you’re not using or place into a piping bag fitted with your nozzle of choice.

So once you’ve got the cookies, cupcakes and buttercream made, you can assemble them all together. Start by getting your cupcake and piping on the buttercream, using your nozzle of choice. Then add a few chocolate chips around the edge of the buttercream, then top each cupcake with a cookie and enjoy!

Here are all the ingredients you’ll need and a shorter, more summarised method along with the video!

Cookies:

75g Butter.

75g Granulated sugar.

75g Light brown sugar.

1 Egg.

1 tsp Vanilla extract.

175g Plain flour.

1/2 tsp Baking powder.

1/8 tsp Salt.

150g Chocolate chips.

Cupcakes:

88g Butter.

88g Granulated white sugar.

1 Egg.

1 tsp Vanilla extract.

88g Plain flour.

1/2 tsp Baking powder.

1/4 tsp Salt.

50g Chocolate chips

Buttercream:

200g Butter.

400g Icing sugar.

1 tsp Vanilla extract

Chocolate chips (optional).

Methods –

Cookies:

Prepare by preheating your oven to 180˚c/350˚f, lining your tray with greaseproof or parchment paper or generously buttering the tray and weighing up your ingredients.
Place the butter, granulated sugar and light brown sugar into your mixing bowl of choice. Beat them all together over a low-medium speed until well combined. Feel free to use a wooden spoon, electric hand mixer or stand mixer.
Once well combined, add in your egg and vanilla extract and mix on a low-medium speed until well combined.
Scrape down the sides and bottom of your bowl, this is to incorporate any bits that haven’t been fully incorporated from earlier on.
Add in your plain flour, baking powder and salt. Pass them through a sieve to remove any lumps and then once all of the dry ingredients are in the bowl, fold/stir them in using a spatula just until the flour is almost fully incorporated. Add in your chocolate chips and stir/fold these in until the dough is clear.
Once you’ve got your dough, you can then use a cookie or (small) ice cream scoop to scoop up small amounts of the dough then round them up using your hands, then flatten them (they will spread a little but not a lot while baking, you can freeze at this stage if you like).
Bake them off in your preheated oven for 10-12 minutes (I found 11-12 minutes was perfect for me).
Remove the tray from the oven and allow the cookies to cool on the tray for 4-5 minutes then transfer them to a cooling rack to cool completely. This recipe makes 24 cookies.

Cupcakes:

Do some prep work before you start by weighing up all the ingredients needed, check your oven has been preheated to 180˚c/350˚f and line your muffin tray with some muffin/cupcake cases.
Place the butter and granulated white sugar into your mixing bowl of choice and beat them together for a couple of minutes until they are well combined.
Scrape down the sides and bottom of your bowl, then add in your egg and beat it over a medium speed until its fully incorporated. Add in the vanilla and mix to incorporate.
Give your bowl another scrape down then add in dry ingredients but passing them through a sieve first to remove any lumps that may be in the mix and in the chocolate chips . Incorporate the dry ingredients in over a slow-medium speed to start, then a medium-high speed until fully incorporated – try not to over-mix, this causes the cakes to be tougher textured.
Split the cake batter between your pre-lined muffin pan, I find using a piping bag works the best but using two spoons works equally as well. Use whichever method works best for you.
Bake in your preheat oven for around 18-20 minutes (or until a tester comes out clean).
Once fully baked, remove from the oven and allow the cupcakes to cool for a short while in the muffin pan, then transfer onto a cooling tray and allow to cool completely.
Make you buttercream.
Finish the cupcakes however you like but I piped on a good amount of buttercream, added a few chocolate chips onto the sides of the piped out buttercream, then placed a cookie onto each cupcake. Serve and enjoy!

Buttercream:

The buttercream is really quick and easy to make, to start, place the butter into a bowl and beat it for around 4-6 minutes or until it’s lighter in colour and consistency.
Once you’ve achieved that, add in roughly around half your icing sugar and mix that on a low speed to start, working your way up to a medium-high once the icing sugar is incorporated and beat or a short while until fully incorporated. Repeat this stage with he remaining half of icing sugar.
Give the bowl a good scraping down and add in the vanilla then mix on a medium speed and mix to incorporate.
Place the buttercream into a piping bag fitted with a nozzle of choice or place in a airtight container and store in the fridge for up to 3 days. This buttercream can also be frozen if you don’t intend on using it straight away.

Thank you all so much for checking out the blog post (and video if you watched it)!

Chocolate Rolo Cookies

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Do you have some of those tubes of mini rolo’s? Why not use them in a batch of these cookies, they will go down a treat with whoever you share them with.

Christmas is just around the corner and that means that all the festive goodies are out. One of the best things for baking are those tubes of sweets and chocolate that you can get for around £1/£1.50 – the mini rolo’s are perfect. I don’t think that these are available any other time of year either (I’m probably wrong so don’t take that as fact).

Anyway, these cookies are the perfect treat to share with your friends and family at this time of year. They are quick and easy to make and don’t require a whole lot of ingredients, what’s not to love?

To start making these cookies, you’ll want to do some prep work. Preheat your oven to 180˚c/350˚f and line your baking trays. Get yourself a mixing bowl and place in your room temperature butter, granulated sugar and light brown sugar, then beat them together on a medium-high speed until they have all come together and are well combined. This is normally achieved in a couple of minutes. You can then add in your eggs, one at a time, beating well in-between each addition. Give the bowl a good scrape down, this is to work in any ingredients that haven’t been fully worked in from earlier on.

Add in your plain flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa powder but pass them through a sieve first to remove any lumps from the mixture (cocoa powder is quite commonly lumpy). Once you’ve sieved the dry ingredient into your bowl, incorporate them by mixing them on a low-medium speed. Once the dry ingredients are fully incorporated, stop mixing and add in the mini rolo’s and milk chocolate chips and mix just until they are well distributed in the cookie dough.

For each cookie, you’ll want scoop up two balls of cookie dough. Take the two balls of cookie dough and roll them between your hands until it’s come together to form one ball – transfer it to a lined baking tray and repeat until you have around 6 on a baking tray (depending on the size of your baking sheet of course). Use as many baking sheets as you require and if you don’t want to bake them off right now, feel free to freeze them and bake them off another time (within 4 months). Place into your preheated oven for 10-12 minutes (check them, they might need more time, depending on your oven).

Once the cookies are fully baked and straight from the oven, you’ll want to finish these cookies by adding a few additional rolo’s and chocolate chips. This is purely to add more chocolate and make it look nicer, so a double winner then?

Ingredients:

150g Butter.

150g Granulated sugar.

150g Light brown sugar

2 Eggs.

320g Plain flour.

1 tsp Baking powder.

30g Cocoa Powder.

1/4 tsp Salt.

Method:

Do some prep work and preheat your oven to 180˚c/350˚f, line your baking trays and weigh up all your ingredients.
To start on the cookies, place your butter, granulated sugar and light brown sugar into your mixing bowl of choice and beat them all together fully combined/well incorporated. Give your bowl a quick scrape down.
Add in your eggs, one at a time, beating well in-between each addition. Don’t worry too much if the mixture splits a little, you’ll be able to correct it when you add in the dry ingredients. Don’t forget to scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl.
Add in your dry ingredients, passing them through a sieve first to remove any lumps (cocoa powder can be quite lumpy).
Incorporate the dry ingredients on a low-medium speed, just until a almost clear dough has formed, then add in your mini rolo’s and chocolate chips and mix until they are well distributed within the dough.
The dough doesn’t require chilling before use, so feel free to use it straight away. For each cookie, scoop up two balls of cookie dough and roll them together into one ball of dough and place on your lined baking tray (I could place around 6 onto a medium sized baking tray, but you may be able to get more or less onto your baking tray, it all depends on the size of the tray and how much space you give them to spread).
Place them in the oven to bake for 10-12 minutes in your preheated oven (check them at 10 minutes as all ovens are different).
As soon as they are fully baked, remove them from the oven and finish them with a few mini rolo’s and chocolate chips, then allow them to fully cool before enjoying them.
After about 10-15 minutes, transfer the cookies onto a cooling rack and allow the cookies to cool fully (unless you enjoy warm cookies, who doesn’t?!)

Thank you for checking out the blog post, I hope you enjoyed the recipe. Don’t forget to check out the rest of my recipes and make something!

Cadbury Dairy Milk Cookies

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I know these Cadbury Dairy Milk cookies aren’t exactly the most festive recipe, however, who doesn’t buy or receive a bar of this at Christmas? Instead of scoffing it down, why not use them to make a batch of these cookies… I promise that you won’t be disappointed.

Who doesn’t like cookies? I mean they are so easy and tasty to make. These are perfect for using up the extra chocolate you’ve received over the Christmas period.

Short on time? Don’t worry, you can make a batch of these up in 30 minutes. The cookie dough doesn’t require chilling before being baked off, so you are free to scoop these up and bake them off straight away.

Anyway, you don’t need any special ingredients or equipment to make these cookies, which is always good news. If you do a little prep work, it will certainly make the process easier.

Anyway, let’s get started, shall we?

Ingredients:

150g Butter.

150g Granulated sugar.

150g Light brown sugar

2 Eggs.

1 tsp Vanilla extract.

350g Plain flour.

1 tsp Baking powder.

1/4 tsp Salt.

100g (1 bar) Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate bar, chopped small.

1 small jar of Cadbury chocolate spread.

Additional bar of Dairy milk for the finishing.

Method:

Before you get into making these cookies, you’re best to do some prep. Start by weighing up all your ingredients, preheating your oven to 180˚c/350˚f and lining your baking trays with parchment paper/greaseproof paper.

Into a mixing bowl, place the butter, granulated sugar and light brown sugar.

Once the butter and sugars have come together, give the bowl a quick scrape down, then add in your eggs (one at a time, beating well in-between each addition).

Give the bowl another quick scrape down, this helps to incorporate any bits that haven’t been fully worked in. Then add in your dry ingredients by passing them through a sieve, this helps to remove any lumps from getting into the dough. Mix the dry ingredients and the chopped-up chocolate in on a low-medium speed until they are just incorporated.

Once the cookie dough has formed, take two scoops of dough and scrape a teaspoon of Cadbury’s chocolate spread onto one of the dough balls and place the second dough ball on top and squish them together and roll them until they are one single ball.

Then place them onto a baking tray, lining it with greaseproof/parchment is up to yourself. Leave a space in between each dough ball as they will spread while they bake.

Bake for around 12-15 minutes in your preheated oven (or until they are golden brown around the edge, remove from the oven and optionally, place a few additional pieces of dairy milk on to each cookie and allow to cool slightly before moving them to a cooling rack.

Once the baking tray isn’t so hot, transfer the cookies from the baking tray onto a cooling rack and allow to cool fully (if you can resist).

That’s all for today guys, I hope you enjoyed. If you did, don’t forget to share this recipe with your family and friends and enjoy it. I’ll be back soon with another blog post and YouTube video, so join me then. In the meanwhile, don’t forget to check out my other social’s – Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube. The YouTube tutorial will be linked down below.

Triple Chocolate Cookies

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If you’re looking for a triple chocolate cookie recipe, look no further, I have you covered.

That’s right, these cookies are triple chocolate, who wouldn’t want more chocolate?

These cookies contain white, milk and dark chocolate chips which are studded throughout the chocolate dough. If you like chocolate, you will LOVE these cookies.

As mentioned above, these cookies are super simple to make and don’t require a lot of time or ingredients to make a batch. You’ll have your baked cookies all done in under 60 minutes, who doesn’t want cookies that don’t take a long time to make? Who wants to spend a majority of the day in the kitchen? I know I don’t and can guess that you don’t want to either, if you use my recipe, you won’t have to!

Before you get into making the cookies, you’ll want to do a bit of prep work. Start by preheating your oven to 180˚c/350˚f, weighing up all your ingredients, this will stop you from making mistakes later on and faffing about and finally, line a baking tray with some greaseproof/parchment paper and set them aside.

To start on the cookies, you’ll want to place your butter, light brown sugar and granulated sugar into your mixing bowl of choice (I went ahead and used my stand mixer bowl but feel free to use whatever you have or prefer) and beat them together just until combined, this doesn’t take very long. You can then add your eggs, one at a time, beating well in-between each addition. Make sure you allow each egg to fully incorporate into the mixture before adding the next egg, otherwise you may curdle the mixture. Once your eggs have been fully incorporated, give your bowl a good scrape down, this is to incorporate any bits that may not have been fully worked in earlier on.

Next you’ll want to add in your plain flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt, passing them through a sieve first to remove any big lumps that may not pass through easily. The mix in the dry ingredients over a low-medium speed just until a dough forms, then stop, you don’t want to over-mix the dough. Add in roughly about 3/4 of your white, milk and dark chocolate chips and mix them in just so they are well distributed (reserve the other 1/4 to finish them).

Take your cookie scoop and scoop up two balls of the cookie dough and roll them together into one larger ball and place onto your lined baking tray, leaving space in-between each cookie as they will spread while baking (they don’t spread a lot but enough anyway). Onto a standard baking tray I place 6 balls of cookie dough but place them accord to your tray, you can then place the tray into the oven and bake for 12-14 minutes or until they are well spread and look a little more baked around the edge compared to the centre.

When they are baked, remove from the oven and place onto your worktop and while they are still hot/warm, you’ll want to finish them. To finish the cookies all you need to do is place the reserved chocolate chips onto each cookie, for me I place around 3 of each chocolate chip onto each cookie, but use what you have left regardless of whether its a lot or none.

Transfer the cookies to a cooling rack, to cool completely cool.

Once the cookies are cooled, you can enjoy them. They are best enjoyed on their own or with a hot drink.

Ingredients:

150g Butter.

150g Granulated sugar.

150g Light brown sugar

2 Eggs.

320g Plain flour.

30g Cocoa powder.

1 tsp Baking powder.

1/4 tsp Salt.

100g White chocolate chips.

100g Milk chocolate chips.

100g Dark chocolate chips.

Method:

Do some prep work. Preheat your oven to 180˚c/350˚f , weigh up all your ingredients and line your baking trays with greaseproof/parchment paper.
To start the cookies, place your butter, granulated sugar and light brown sugar into your mixing bowl and beat them together, just until they are combined.
Add your eggs into the bowl, one at a time beating well in-between each addition. Repeat with your second egg.
Once your eggs are fully incorporated, you’ll want to add your dry ingredients in but first, you’ll want to pass them through a sieve. Into your sieve add in your plain flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt, this helps to sort out any big lumps that wouldn’t pass through.
Once all the dry ingredients have been added, incorporate them by mixing them in over a low-medium speed just until a dough has formed, try not to over-mix.
Add in 3/4 of your white, milk and dark chocolate chips, reserving a 1/4 to finish them off once baked. Mix them in over a low-medium speed just until they are well dispersed throughout the dough, then you’re finished mixing the dough.
Take your cookie scoop and scoop up 2 balls of dough per cookie. Roll the dough between your hands to round it off and place it on your lined baking tray – I got 6 onto a standard baking tray but work with what trays you have.
Place the baking tray into the oven and bake for 12-14 minutes (remove one they look more baked around the edges, so check after the 10-12 minute mark and see. All ovens are different and will vary with baking times so keep an eye on them.
Once fresh out the oven, place a few each chocolate chips onto the top of each cookie just to add some more chocolate, because why not? (do you really need a reason to add more chocolate into triple chocolate cookies? Hmmm…)
Transfer the cookies to a cooling rack to cool completely before enjoying (although they are amazing while slightly warm).

Thank you so much for checking out this recipe, I hope you enjoy it and get to make it soon!

White Chocolate & Fudge Cookies

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If you’ve come looking for a recipe on how to make these super simple white chocolate and fudge cookies, I’ve got you covered.

As stated above, these cookies are super simple to make and don’t require a lot of either time or ingredients. These cookies are perfect for almost any cookie craving, it starts with the perfectly baked cookie, which has a generous amount of white chocolate chips and fudge pieces studded throughout them. Oh yeah, did I forgot to mention that they have a fudge filling? That’s right, even more fudge packed into them, what’s not to like?

I understand that you might not be able to find white chocolate chips or fudge pieces where you are, so feel free to improvise by using a chopped up bar of white chocolate or chopped up soft fudge. For the fudge centre, I recommend using butter fudge as this is softer than other fudges and works perfectly in this recipe but feel free to use whatever you have or can get your hands on.

Anyway, the mixing process doesn’t require a whole lot, a little time and effort and you can have yourself a batch of amazing cookies! The longest thing in the whole process is actually the baking period, why must you take so long to bake?! This recipe wasn’t intended for this week, but they were really tasty and thought I should share these with you as soon as possible.

All jokes aside, you don’t need any fancy equipment and these would make the ideal recipe to make with kids. To start this recipe, you’ll want to do some prep work. Preheat your oven to 180˚c/350˚f, weigh up all of your ingredients (this saves you time and prevents you from making a mistake with the exact amounts) and prepare your baking tray by lining it with either baking parchment/greaseproof paper and set that aside until its needed a little later.

To start the cookies, you’ll want to get your mixing bowl of choice and place your butter, granulated sugar and light brown sugar into a bowl and beat them together over a low-medium until they are well combined, you can tell once its done as there won’t be a trace of a single ingredient. Once the mixture has come together, add your egg and vanilla and mix that again on a low-medium speed until the egg and vanilla are very well incorporated. Give your bowl a good scrape down and then add in the plain flour and baking powder and mix them in over a low-medium speed until the dry ingredients are almost fully incorporated, then add in your white chocolate chips and fudge pieces and fold these in using a spatula, do this until the cookie dough has become clear (no traces of a single ingredient, all fully worked in to one another. You can then give your counter a wipe down and get your prepared baking tray ready.

Once you’ve got your cookie dough ready and baking tray, you’re good to go. The dough doesn’t need to be chilled before being used, so you can use it straight away. Scoop up 2 balls of dough per cookie, onto one of the dough balls, place a piece of butter fudge and place the second ball of dough on top of that one and round them up using the palms of your hands and then place them onto your baking tray. I places 6 cookies onto a standard baking tray but feel free to configure how many you can place onto a baking tray. Bake in the preheated oven for around 15-18 minutes or until golden brown.

As soon as you remove from the oven, place a generous amount of white chocolate chips and fudge pieces on top of each cookie and allow to cool slightly before eating them. Transfer the cookies to a cooling rack, allow to cool for as long as you’d like (or can resist) and then enjoy them. They are best enjoyed once out of the oven for around 10 minutes – they are best enjoyed with milk or alone.

I will leave all the ingredients and measurements down below along with a brief version of whats above, if you want to save yourself some time reading exactly what you have to do.

Ingredients:

75g Butter.

75g Granulated sugar.

75g Light brown sugar.

1 Egg.

1 tsp Vanilla.

175g Plain flour.

1/2 tsp Baking powder.

50g White chocolate chips.

50g Fudge pieces.

12 pieces butter fudge (or other variety of soft fudge).

Methods:

Start by preheating your oven to 180˚c/350˚f, weighing up all your ingredients and lining your baking tray with baking parchment/greaseproof paper.
Start by getting your mixing bowl ready and placing your butter granulated white sugar and light brown sugar into the bowl and beating over low-medium speed until its combined.
Once combined, you can add your egg and vanilla and beat that over a low-medium speed until they have been incorporated into the mix.
Scrape down the bowl and add in your flour and baking powder. Mix this in on a low-medium speed until its almost fully combined, then add in the white chocolate chips and fudge pieces and fold these in by hand using a spatula. Do this until a clear dough has formed.
Once a dough has formed, get your prepared baking tray and scoop up your dough. For each cookie, you’ll want to get 2 scoops of dough, onto one half of the dough place a piece of butter fudge and place the second dough ball on top, then round them off using the palms of your hand. Place onto your baking tray and fit around 6 cookies onto a standard baking tray.
Place your cookies into the preheated oven and bake for 15-18 minutes (or until golden brown).
Straight out the oven, place a generous amount of the white chocolate chips and fudge pieces on top of each cookie and allow to cool slightly on a cooling rack before eating.
Once cooler, enjoy by itself or with a glass of milk.

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