Yet another variation of
this Dan Lepard recipe. These cookies are really quick and simple to make and, as the recipe uses wholemeal flour and oats, you can at least pretend that it's healthy. These were made to go into lunchboxes, so I didn't feel the need to be too extravagent with the chocolate - I used a standard bag of plain chocolate chips from the baking section of the supermarket. I've decided I really don't like almond extract unless it's enhancing the flavour of almonds, so I went back to vanilla extract in this recipe.
So, to summarise - I added 100g chocolate chips, 150g dried cranberries and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract to the basic dough recipe and made 20 cookies from one batch of dough. These cookies are quite substantial and nicely chewy, excellent either as part of a nourishing packed lunch or as a snack with a mug of coffee or tea.
10 comments:
No pretending about it!! They are totally healthy ... chocolate is a food group lol. They look great, a real treat.
HoneyB loves cranberries so I usually use a Rachel Allen recipe for cran and white choc cookies. It has oats ... must try these though with wholemeal flour. Nice one!
I love cranberries so definitely one to try. They look so good.
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I have literally just written a post about baking chewy cookies... I somehow struggled to get them to be super chewy! What type of sugar did you use? Do you think using wheat flour helped? Cranberry and chocolate chip is always a winner!
Suelle, I love these! I made them with wholemeal spelt flour, and like you, omitted the almond extract. My friend Marty uses them as his triathlon energy food! :)
Hazel - according to Dan Lepard, using a proportion of oil instead of butter increases the chewiness, but I think using wholemeal flour must play a part too.
I see you are not in the UK at the moment. I use light muscovado sugar, but I'm not sure what the nearest US equivalent would be.
It's great when you find a recipe you're really happy with isn't it! These look as good as ever. You've reminded me that I ought to revisit the recipe!
My kind of health food!
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