The Susanne

I am start­ing to see that today is a day of firsts. I have just suc­cess­fully made my very first batch of cook­ies! I got the idea and the ‘how-to’ from a blog I just dis­covered earlier tonight: Cook & Eat. The idea of making leftover-​cookies appealed to me immensely! Like the author of Cook & Eat, I have heaps and heaps of left over stuff taking up pre­cious cup­board space and seeing the photos of the light golden brown cook­ies lit­er­ally made my mouth water. And let me just say, for the record, that I am not a sweet-​tooth!

I made my cook­ies fol­low­ing the recipe from Cook & Eat up to the point of the oats, with only slight adjust­ments to fit my stom­ach and my pantry. I used non-​dairy mar­gar­ine as always, and I used 1 tsp of lemon juice instead of 2 tsp orange juice as I didn’t have any. Also, I didn’t have any brown sugar so just used 1 cup of the normal stuff. Now, when the time came for fla­vour­ing I had dug out all the yummy secrets hidden away in my cup­board and my candy shelf. Here’s what I decided to put into the cook­ies: Hundreds-and-Thousands, shred­ded coconut, chips of 70% cocoa dark chocol­ate and some Lindt chili 86% cocoa chocol­ate my mum gave me once.

I have to say, they didn’t look too appet­ising halfway through the cook­ing pro­cess (I decided against post­ing the photo of it). But My oh My, did they look lovely when they came out! (Oh yeah, I tried cook­ing them for 12 minutes the first time and they came out dark brown and not so yummy. The next two batches were cooked for under ten minutes, just until lightly golden at the edges.) Also, my cook­ies didn’t stay fluffy. They rose in the oven, but then sud­denly they all col­lapsed into flat­ness. They still taste divine, though. Incred­ibly sweet, but divine nonetheless.

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