Reminder Cookies

Today I was asked for ‘those yummy chewy cookies’ and I really couldn’t remember even making them … so I am a little embarrassed that this blog is reminder. The reason I started it in 2012, before being gluten free, was because of being chaotic; I would not be able to forget a recipe if it was online.  Then things developed a bit with books and now I am back to where I was at the beginning, though under a different blog name, and hoping to resurrect cookery demonstrations when lockdown is over.

We eat too many biscuits, so that now I put out pineapple or something like that for homeschool snack. Fruit, no matter how exotic, is not a chewy cookie.  With sugar overload in mind (and having no brown sugar in the house), I used coconut sugar.  They taste not quite as good as using brown sugar, but Olivia loves them and that’s all I need. Mats is not fussy when it comes to biscuits, so job done.

 Makes 12 - 14

Ingredients
125g unsalted butter
100g soft brown sugar or coconut sugar
1 egg
1tsp vanilla extract
220g gluten free self raising flour
2 handfuls of white choc chips and dried cranberries or sultanas or whatever you like.

Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 180Mix the C/356F
2. Mix the sugars and butter together until light and fluffy.
3. Add the egg and mix in. Add a spoonful of the flour to stop it splitting.
4. Mix in the vanilla and then the remainder of the flour.
5. Add the choc chips or whichever goodies you have chosen.
6. With lightly floured clean hands or spoons dipped in hot water, roll pingpong size balls and press them lightly onto a lined baking tray.

7. Bake for 6 minutes before removing from the oven and pressing them down lightly with a spatula. They will have puffed up a little.
8. Return to the oven for 3 minutes. Remove and allow to cool on the tray, otherwise they will crumble. They will not appear cooked but when they have cooled on the tray will be chewy.