Melt In Your Mouth Cinnamon Cookies

Ingredients:

250g butter

150g caster sugar

2 egg yolks

200g plain flour

1tsp cinnamon

Method:

1. Preheat oven to Gas Mark 6 or 200C.
2. Place the butter and 50g sugar in a bowl and beat together until light and fluffy.
3. Add the egg yolk and mix thoroughly.
4. Mix in the flour to form a dough.
5. In another bowl mix the rest of the sugar and cinnamon together.
6. Roll a teaspoon of the dough in the cinnamon sugar until coated.
7. Place the ball on the baking tray and press a fork into top until about 1cm thick.
8. Bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown.
9. Cool on a wire rack.

Midnight Cookies

Ingredients:

125g butter

175g caster sugar

1 egg

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

125g plain flour

35g cocoa powder

1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Balls of cookie mix about to go in the oven

Method:

1. Preheat oven to Gas Mark 4 or 180C.
2. Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
3. Beat the egg and vanilla essence together and then add to the butter & sugar mixture. Mix well until smooth.
4. Mix together the flour, cocoa powder and bicarbonate of soda.
5. Add the dry mix slowly to the wet mix, constantly mixing until all the dry ingredients are added and it is well combined.
6. Make small walnut sized balls in your hands and place onto a baking sheet, well spaced out.
7. Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes.
8. Cool on the baking tray before moving to a wire rack to cool.

Milk Chocolate & Nut (Egg Yolk) Cookies

This recipe is ideal to make with those left over egg yolks when you have made meringues...

Large Cookies

Ingredients:

225g butter

400g granulated sugar

3 egg yolks

1 tsp vanilla essence

100g milk chocolate, broken in small pieces

50g chopped nuts

320g plain flour

1 tbsp lemon juice

1 tsp bicarbonate soda

half tsp salt

Mix the dough together

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180C or Gas Mark 4.
2. Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl.
3. Beat together the 3 egg yolks and beat into the mix.
4. Mix in the vanilla essence, lemon juice, chocolate pieces and nuts.
5. Fold in the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt to form a soft dough.
6. Take a spoonful of dough and mould into a ball in your hands.
7. Place on a greased baking tray and flatten with your fingers. Place the cookies about 3cm apart as they spread a lot in the oven.
8. Place in the oven for 12-15 minutes, until the edges crisp.



The cookies spread on the tray

9. Leave on the tray to cool before removing to a cooling rack.

ENJOY with a good cuppa!

Place on a baking tray