Anyone that knows me knows that cookies are high on the list of things that make me happy. If I'm craving something sweet, give me a cookie. If I'm having a bad day, give me a cookie. If you want to be my friend, give me a cookie and we'll be friends for life. So yeah, cookies are pretty great in my eyes, so I thought I would bake some for the festive season. These little festive cookies make the perfect gift and the fact that they're home-made makes for extra brownie points.
For me, when it comes to gifts it's all in the presentation so I decided to wrap these delicious gooey cookies in a little red ribbon and voila, a Christmas treat your friends will love you for.
For my cookies I pretty much followed Tanya Burr's cookie recipe without the cocoa powder. I did have one trial and error though. Let's just say, my perfectly cut star cookies came out the oven looking almost unrecognisable. So a little tip from a dear friend of mine is to cut the cookies once they've been in the oven. That way you can gift cookies in a festive shape that someone might actually recognise..
So for this recipe you will need:
- 200g butter
- 300g caster sugar
- 1 large egg
- 275g self-raising flour
- A big bar of Dairymilk chocolate
- A big bar of white chocolate Milkybar
To make the cookies:
- Heat the oven to 200 degrees celsius
- Cream together the butter and sugar
- Crack in the egg
- Stir in all the dry ingredients
- Add in all of the chocolate - at first I simply broke the chocolate in squares but I would advise actually cutting this in half again
- Butter a baking tray
- Spread a thick layer of the cookie mix over the baking tray
- Cook in the oven for 8-10 minutes
- Once cooled slightly use your cookie cutter of choice and get those cookie shapes. Be careful here as you don't want to ruin the shape
I hope this give you a little bit of Christmas baking inspiration!
XoXo
