Chocolate M&M Chip Cookies

Ingredients

185g Butter

½ brown sugar 

½ cup caster sugar

1 egg

13/4 self-raising flour (sifted)

1 tsp vanilla essence

1 cup chocolate chip

1 cup peacan or any other nuts

Method

·         Beat butter, sugar, egg and vanilla essence in a small bowl with an electric mixer until soft and creamy

·         Stir in the sifted flour, nuts and chocolate chip

·         Drop tablespoonfuls onto greased baking trays, allow room for spreading

·         Bake 180oc for 10-12 mins

·         Transfer to a wire rack. Cool completely, Store in an air tight container

Additional

You can drizzle chocolate over the biscuits.

Chocolate Glazing or Icing

Cocoa Powder

Butter, melted

Powdered sugar

Warm Water

Vanilla essence

Directions

Melt your butter

Add all ingredients

Stir until well mixed and smooth

Add more water if you want it thinner

If using as icing and you think it’s too thick just let it sit for a few mintues

For this recipe, I did not follow the exact recipe from the book, I omit the caster sugar and just added in the brown sugar and for the additional taste and colour, I’ve added a tablespoon of cocoa powder (therefore you need to mins 1 tablespoon of self-raising flour) to the ingredients.