This weekend, my sis and I had a play date. We spent a day at the hairdressers, went to Ikea and indulged in house stuff and then I took her home with me where we drank too much and Hubby made us a fabulous dinner.
Sis' partner was also meant to join us for the evening, but he's been taken down by a horrid flu type virus, and decided not to inflict us with it.
The next morning, while we waited for Sis' partner to come and pick her up, we decided to make him some cookies - Feel Better ones. Our first choice was peanut butter cookies, but I was missing vital ingredients and not prepared to change out of my pj's on a Sunday morning to go get them. Instead, after flicking through a few of my cook books, we found a recipe for choc-vanilla biscuits in my trusty Women's Weekly Macaroons & Biscuits magazine.
This has to have been one of my funnest baking days. Sis and I work together really well, and the recipe was super simple. I don't have a plethora of photos of us working through each stage - because it was more fun just to tag team along as we went and not worry about it. One of us started beating the egg, butter, sugar and vanilla extract while the other got the flour ready and dug out the cocoa powder. When we got to the point where the recipe suggested halving the dough (to make half the cookies vanilla and half chocolate) we decided to make them all chocolate and doubled the milk and cocoa powder required. We made a fabulous mess rolling out the dough (why would I take the helpful advice to roll it out between two sheets of baking paper?) and then busted out my cookie cutters - some of which I am sure have never seen the light of day.
Where did we go wrong? Well.... turns out after the first two trays came out of the oven, and the last tray went in, we got distracted by toys (my ultrasonic jewellery cleaner to be exact) and FORGOT ABOUT THE LAST TRAY. Needless to say, when we realised, and opened the oven door, a lot of smoke came out. It looks like the self-congratulating we had done when we took the first two trays out was a little pre-emptive.
But nevermind! We only had a little bit of white chocolate to melt and decorate them with anyway, so we melted it and drizzled it haphazardly over the cookies that we did have. Again, it probably would have been a good idea to put a sheet of baking paper UNDER the wire rack before we did that. I think my benchtop will be covered in a fine layer of white chocolate for the foreseeable future!
Here are the finished product - hopefully they live up to their new name and put a smile of Sis' partners face when he eats them!
