The Cookie Jar
By Liz Franklin
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There's nothing quite like the irresistible smell and the mouth-watering taste of freshly baked cookies straight from the oven. Sometimes savoury, but often wonderfully sweet, they are the ultimate bite-sized comfort food, and oh so simple to make. Here you'll find classic recipes such as Gingerbread Men, Choc Chip Cookies and Snickerdoodles, along with more contemporary creations like Peanut Crunch, Spiced Pumpkin or Rosemary & Pine Nut Cookies to truly showcase the variety of flavours share amongst friends… or keep for yourself! Together with some basic baking tips, information about the equipment you need and advice on the best ingredients to buy – you'll be prepared and ready to bake in no time! If you're partial to some Brandy Snaps, the buttery taste of Shortbread or could nibble on the whole selection, get ready to fill up your cookie jar with these crunchy, moreish and easy-to-make bakes.
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The Cookie Jar - Liz Franklin
FOR ANY OCCASION
CHOC CHIP COOKIES
I haven’t come across many people who can resist a freshly baked chewy chocolate-packed cookie – it’s a bit like trying to say no to still-warm, straight-from-the-oven baked bread. One whiff of the heavenly smell coming from the oven alone, and self-restraint goes out of the window. For the best cookie, use good-quality chocolate chips – I like a mixture of dark/bittersweet and milk/semi-sweet chocolate, but you can stick to all or the other if you prefer. Sometimes I add a handful of halved, toasted hazelnuts and slightly less chocolate.
175 g/1½ sticks butter, softened
80 g/scant ½ cup soft brown sugar
80 g/scant ½ cup caster/granulated sugar
1 egg
225 g/1¾ cups plain/all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda/baking soda
100 g/⅔ cup milk/semi-sweet chocolate chips
100 g/⅔ cup dark/bittersweet chocolate chips
2 baking sheets lined with baking parchment
MAKES ABOUT 25
Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F) Gas 4.
Put the butter and sugars together in a large mixing bowl and beat until light and fluffy. Add the egg and stir until fully incorporated. Mix the flour and bicarbonate of soda/baking soda together in a separate bowl and stir this into the cookie mixture. Add the chocolate chips and work everything together until evenly combined.
Roll the mixture into walnut-sized balls and arrange on the baking sheets, leaving a little space for spreading between each one.
Bake in the preheated oven for 8–10 minutes, until golden and firm.
Leave to cool for 5 minutes or so on the baking sheets, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container or cookie jar and eat within 5 days.
RUM & RAISIN COOKIES
The raisins in these cookies give them a lovely crisp-but-chewy texture, and the hint of rum just makes them even more special.
90 g/6 tablespoons butter, softened
175 g/¾ cup plus 2 tablespoons Demerara/turbinado sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 tablespoon rum
150 g/1 cup plus 2 tablespoons plain/all-purpose flour
50 g/⅓ cup dark raisins (or sultanas/golden raisins, if preferred)
2 baking sheets lined with baking parchment
MAKES ABOUT 20
Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F) Gas 4.
Beat the butter and sugar together in a large mixing bowl until smooth. Add the egg and the rum. Stir in the flour and work everything together to form a smooth dough. Add the raisins and work gently into the dough until evenly incorporated.
Drop spoonfuls of the mixture onto the prepared baking sheets, leaving a little space for spreading between each one.
Bake in the preheated oven for 8–10 minutes, until golden and firm.
Leave to cool on the baking sheets, before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container or cookie jar and eat within 1 week.
DOMINO BISCUITS
Decorated to look like real dominoes, these chocolatey biscuits are great fun for children and go down really well at birthday parties.
130 g/1 stick plus 1 tablespoon butter
130 g/⅔ cup caster/granulated sugar
1 egg, be aten
200 g/1⅔ cups plain/all-purpose flour
60 g/⅓ cup ground almonds
20 g/2½ tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
50 g/1½ oz. white chocolate, melted
2 baking sheets lined with baking parchment
MAKES about 30
Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F) Gas 4.
Beat the butter and sugar together in a large mixing bowl until smooth. Add the egg, and continue to beat until fully incorporated. Stir in the flour, ground almonds, cocoa powder and baking powder, and bring the mixture together to form a stiff dough.
On a clean, lightly floured work surface, roll the dough out into a large rectangle with a thickness of about 3 mm/⅛ in. Cut out small rectangles just slightly larger than a real domino. Bring the trimmed dough (if there is any) together and roll out again to cut as many cookies out of the dough as possible.
Lay the cookies on the prepared baking sheets, leaving a little space for spreading between each one.
Bake in the preheated oven for 10–15 minutes, until firm.
Leave to cool on the baking sheets and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Use the melted white chocolate to decorate the biscuits with dots and lines to resemble dominoes. Store in an airtight container or cookie jar and eat within 1 week.
ICED COFFEE COOKIES
Coffee-flavoured glacé icing that sets ever-so-slightly crunchily makes these coffee cookies very moreish. A little sprinkling of very finely chopped walnuts around the outside perimeter give them an extra special touch, too – although you could use chocolate sprinkles or hazelnuts if you prefer.
150 g/1 stick plus 2 tablespoons butter, softened
120 g/⅔ cup caster/superfine sugar
1 egg yolk
2 teaspoons instant coffee dissolved in 1 teaspoon boiling water
180 g/1⅓ cups plain/all-purpose flour
120 g/1 scant cup ground almonds
Coffee glaze
400 g/3⅔ cups icing/confectioners’ sugar
2 egg whites
2 teaspoons instant coffee dissolved in 1 teaspoon boiling water
100 g/⅔ cup walnuts, very finely chopped
a round cookie cutter
2 baking sheets lined with baking parchment
MAKES 30
Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F) Gas 4.
Beat the butter and sugar together in a large mixing bowl until smooth. Add the egg yolk and beat to combine. Stir in the coffee, and then add the flour and ground almonds and bring everything together to create a smooth dough.
On a clean, lightly floured work surface, roll out the dough into a large rectangle about 4 mm/⅛ in. thick. Cut out circles using the cookie cutter. Bring the trimmed dough together and roll out again to cut as many cookies out of the dough as possible.
Arrange the cookies on the prepared baking sheets and bake in the preheated oven for 8–10 minutes, until firm and golden.
Leave to cool on the baking sheet for about 5 minutes, before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
In the meantime, mix the icing/confectioners’ sugar, egg whites and coffee together until smooth. Spread the coffee glaze over the cold cookies and sprinkle the chopped walnuts around the edges. Eat one, and then leave the rest until the glaze has set. Store in an airtight container or cookie jar between layers of baking parchment and eat within 3