Cookie Monster Sized Cravings

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"C is for Cookie, that's good enough for me!" ~ The Cookie Monster

With no shame whatsoever, I give you this post:

I didn't set out with the intentions of making it a blog post but oh well, that's the way the cookie crumbles (see what I did there?). So basically I'd been itching to bake all weekend but never got the chance: no time, no flour etc. This morning however, I woke up with a GIANT craving for cookies, something had to be done! I remembered one of my favourite blogs (Whispering Wind) had a recipe for some so I looked it up and got started. I changed a few bits to cater to my tastes and it all (prep and baking) took about 30 mins #winning.

Cookie anyone?

What I used:

• 2.5 cups wheat bran flour
• 0.5 cup all purpose flour
• 0.5 1 teaspoon baking soda  powder
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon (optional) a pinch of salt
• 1 3/4 cup butter/ margarine
• 1 cup (Rich Dark) brown sugar
• 1 egg 1/2 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 1 cup chocolate chips (I used ordinary dark chocolate in small pieces) - optional

What I did:

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius
• Spray a baking pan/ tray or line with baking sheets
• Mix wheat-bran, all purpose flour, cinnamon and baking soda powder in a small bowl
• Beat butter till creamy in a separate larger bowl. Beat in sugar, eggs milk and vanilla essence
• Mix in the flour mixture and add in chocolate chips (If you so desire)
• Roll dough into about 0.5cm-1cm thick disk on a clean flat surface (Put flour on the surface and rolling pin to avoid sticking)
• Cut cookies with a cookie cutter or knife and place on baking tray with adequate spacing.
• Eat remaining cookie dough (it's delicious!)
• Bake in oven for 15-20 minutes or until the edges start to brown until outside is crunchy and center is soft and clean when poked with a fork.
• Remove and leave to cool (or serve warm)

Et Voila!

Bon appetit! 

dough in mixing bowl

Ready to roll and cut out

Before

After

A very happy Mwape!

Bisous!

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