SATURDAY’S SWEET TREATS! 

It’s that time of year when everyone is running out of money and it’s too cold to leave the house. Well they are my reasons anyway for staying in on a Saturday night!

So! We decided to try to remake the Millie’s cookies recipe.

We found a copy cat recipe on the BBC Food website with an ingredients list and method!

INGREDIENTS

• 125g butter, softened
• 100g light brown soft sugar
• 125g caster sugar
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 225g self-raising flour
• ½ tsp salt
• 200g chocolate chips

Choosing the chocolate took the longest amount of time and we eventually came to the decision of galaxy ripple cookies. That soon changed and we ended up adding in chunks of dairy milk chocolate to make them even more chocolatey!.

METHOD

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4
2. Cream butter and sugars, once creamed, combine in the egg and vanilla.
3. Sift in the flour and salt, then the chocolate chips.
4. Roll into walnut size balls, for a more homemade look, or roll into a long, thick sausage shape and slice to make neater looking cookies.
5. Place on ungreased baking paper. If you want to have the real Millies experience then bake for just 7 minutes, till the cookies are just setting – the cookies will be really doughy and delicious. Otherwise cook for 10 minutes until just golden round the edges. 
6. Take out of the oven and leave to harden for a minute before transferring to a wire cooling rack. These are great warm, and they also store well, if they don’t all get eaten straight away!

If your going to bake anything you can’t go wrong with cookies! The whole method takes about 15 minutes and they only take 7 minutes to cook or 10 if you like them crispy.

Perfect for people who hate waiting (like me). They turned out perfect, I think better than Millie’s