Let's Bake!

2009-03-12, 8:26 p.m.
Off work with a bad back?

Only able to shuffle about in the kitchen?

Bit bored? Bit hungry?

Let’s make COOOOOOOOKIIEEEEEEEEES!!!!!

First off, pre-heat the oven to 180C (300F?/Gas Mark 4) and assemble your ingredients:

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That’s

  • 6oz butter(unsalted if you have it but don’t go crazy – even margarine will do if you got severe cookie hunger)

  • 1 (arbitrary half pint) coffee mug each of self raising flour and oats

  • 6 tablespoons sugar (any sort - brown/white/muscavado)

  • 1 heaped teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda (or baking powder if that’s all you’ve got. Ive even left this bit out altogether and nothing really bad happened)

  • 1 really big tablespoon of golden syrup (or 1 and a half sensible spoonfuls – less damaging to counter tops, passing children, clothing etc)

    • Melt the butter and golden syrup on a low heat on the stove

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    When its melted take it off the heat and stir in the bicarbonate of soda/baking powder. It’ll go kind of foamy and weird – don’t be alarmed! Look!

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    Add all the other ingredients – just dump ‘em in, no need to be precious

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    Give everything a good stir around and it’ll make a kind of gooey lump

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    With a teaspoon, take out dollops. Squish ‘em together a bit and put them on a baking tray. Leave some room between as sometimes they spread out WAY more than you’re expecting

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    Put them in the preheated oven for about five minutes – they’ll puff up a bit

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    So you might want to stick your hand right into the hot oven and pat them down a bit flatter. You might not want to. I usually do. See!

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    Cook them for another 3 – 5 minutes and then take ‘em out and cool them on a rack. They’ll be as crumbly as hell when you try to get them off the tray so go careful, but they do firm up nicely once they’re cool.

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    Scoff. With a nice cup of tea. (makes about two dozen)

    Cooks Notes:

    If you use slightly less flour and oats, you’ll get a thinner crisper cookie which will spread out at an alarming rate but will still be delicious. Kind of like a brandy snap but more substantial.

    You can add a couple of handfuls of chocolate chips or chopped nuts to the mixture if you like but don’t bother adding raisins – they tend to bob to the surface and bake hard and look a bit like rabbit poo.

    If you havent got any oats, you can use a mug of muesli-type breakfast cereal (Alpen or something like that), it works really well and you can kind of pretend that they’re ‘Healthy Cookies’. Pick the raisins out if you’re using muesli (see above ref to rabbit poo).

    Enjoy.
    S
    x
    PS Not sure what golden syrup is? Click on it up there in the ingredients list and you should get a link to a description. Im not sure what the US equivalent is. 'Light cane syrup' maybe?



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