Jewelled Cookies

Category: Cakes and Bakes

These cookies are great to bake with children, to put into lunchboxes and they made a real talking point served them with coffee after dinner, piled high on a glass plate and dusted with icing sugar - they look fabulous and taste even better.

Servings

Makes 100

Ingredients

575g plain flour 1tsp bicarbonate of soda 1tsp salt 175g caster sugar 150g soft brown sugar 2 medium eggs 250g butter, softened 1tsp vanilla extract 1 packet of sugar coated chocolate pieces

Method

Preheat oven to gas 4/180C. Sift together the plain flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt. In a separate bowl mix together the caster sugar, soft brown sugar, eggs, butter and vanilla extract. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the sugar and butter mixture. Roll the dough into the sugar coated pieces until well covered. Drop tiny teaspoosfuls - no bigger than a 1p piece onto a non stick baking sheet with a piece of resuable non stick liner or parchment paper on it. Bake at gas 4/180C for about 10 minutes until the cookies are darker at the edges Cool on wire rack - they should be crispy - if not return to the oven for 2 -3 minutes more. These can be stored in an airthigh container for week - they also freeze very well cooked. Cook's Tips The cookie dough can be frozen until requried - don't add the 'sugar coated chocolate pieces' to if before freezing. If making lots of tiny cookies seems to much like hard work - press the mixture into a non stick Swiss roll tin and bake for about 20 minutes, remove from a tin carefully, cut into small squares and leave to cool. PER SERVING 55 Kcal, fat 2.4g, saturated fat 1.4g, salt 0.1g, carbohydrate 8.1g, sugar 3.7g, fibre 0.2g