Cookie Syndrome

Nothing quite says welcome home, come in, take your shoes off and relax by the open fire like a warm cup tea and cookies :). Very fond of the Maryland cookies I was maybe a bit too fond! Going about my daily bits & bobs I came across a cookie cook book.... yes a cookie cook book with no less than 80 recipes!Recipe for disaster some might say. Cookies of all flavours, shapes , dimensions you name it and there it was in the book. Of course being a mammy Chrissie's bacon and cabbage kind of girl I opted for the plain Jane Chocolate chip option.

One glance at the page in the cook book and I spotted 'light muscovado sugar'. O lord I thought what is that? Off to the local Tesco's I went searching for a needle in a hay stack. 25 minutes later there it was among a zillion other fancy sugars. Into the basket and off home I went wondering what this mystery sugar was going to do to my eagerly awaited cookies.

Cookies taste so amaze-balls their bound to be mission impossible to make right? Quiet the opposite actually! I recommend baking cookies to anyone who has a bit of anger or frustration to take out on the world. Just horse the butter, flour, baking powder, margarine,sugar ( both fancy and caster) , egg and chocolate chips into a large mixing bowl and bobs your uncle mix until your hearts content. When stress free spoon the mixture onto a baking sheet. Now don't make the same mistake I made and put them nice and close , my first batch resembled a cookie cake . These dude's expand so be sure and put each spoonful 2 miles away from the next. 12 minutes later and o wow giant chocolate chip cookies are ready only to cool down.

If you like to live life on the edge try what I did chop up some Cadbury's Dairymilk chocolate instead of plain chocolate chips. IT'S SOOOOOO WORTH IT.