African Vanielje on Jun 06 2009 at 9:27 am | Filed under: Kassia & Figg, baking, sweet kitchen, vkcb
- peanuts, oats and chocolate candy…
Preheat your oven to 180*C and line a baking sheet with baking parchment.
Cream:
- 225g granulated sugar
- 175g brown sugar
- 225g butter
Add:
- 2 eggs, lighlty beaten
- 1Tablespoon vanilla extract
and beat until light and fluffy.
Sift:
- 300g plain (cake) flour
- 5 ml bicarbonate of soda
Add to egg mix together with
- 125g rolled oats
- 1/2 cup of peanuts
Spoon 1/4 cup of mix onto your baking sheet at a time. I usually get four cookies to one large sheet. Make sure you leave plenty of space for them to spread out.
Poke your smarties (or chocolate m&m’s ) into the top of the cookie, and bake for 8-10 minutes (or until lightly browned).
The cookies will still be soft and you need to let them harden for a few minutes before transferring them to a rack to cool. Try and wait until they are cooled completely to enjoy them at their best.
[...] tea room) and accomplishing it all beautifully. You can certainly understand why when you see these giant Peanut, oat and M &M’s [...]
I was inspired by your cookies to make some of my own. Thank you.
I wanted to tell you this but, you beat me to it.
Aparna’s last blog post..Chocolate Rainbow Polka Dot Cookies (a.k.a Smarties/ M&Ms/ Gems Cookies!)
Marye, thanks for the mention, and Aparna, yours look great. Don’tcha just love the blogosphere…BTW I love your name for them.