Making millie's cookies

After a disastrous baking experience over Easter weekend, I was keen to redeem myself and reclaim my former crown. Writing the blondies off as a no-go zone for a while, I decided to use up some Easter chocolate by making double chocolate cookies - Millie's style!

I started by chopping up the chocolate - half milk and half white. The recipe actually called for 200g of chocolate chips; I have no idea if this was 200g or not but it felt like the right amount to me.

First up I creamed together 125g of butter, 100g of light brown sugar and 125g of caster sugar using an electric whisk. Obviously you can do this by hand but it's a hell of a lot more effort for the same result and you can buy electric mixers for like £10.

Then I whisked in 1 egg and a dash of vanilla. The recipe called for 1tsp but since moving into my own house, my baking style has been all about reducing the number of pots to wash. Hence the "dash" rather than the teaspoon.

Next in was 225g of self raising flour, which I didn't have so I used plain flour and added a spoon or two of baking powder. I like baking cookies because they don't require too much method - instead of folding in the flour and being careful not to knock the air out (like with cakes) you can just chuck it in and mix it all together.

Then in went the chocolate! The smell of the chopped white chocolate was literally incredible.

And then this is where the recipe kind of lost me. It said that the mix would make 12 cookies and you should roll it into walnut sized balls. Well, I was using balls much bigger than walnuts and still ended up with enough mix for 24 cookies and then a load left over! I didn't have another suitable tray either so I simply shoved all the leftover mix in a loaf tin and shoved it in the oven (waste not want not).

And after 8 minutes at 180C, they looked perfect! The loaf tin needed an extra maybe 5 minutes, due to how huge it was. I wouldn't say they were all that millie's-cookies-like (they tend to be softer and probably have a higher level of brown sugar) but they were very good. And the leftover mix certainly didn't go to waste. Topped with ice cream, it made an amazing pudding!