Recipe: Mint Matchmaker Cookies

As Mint Matchmakers are on offer in Sainsbury's at the moment.....£1 (usually £1.99) I have been stocking up to make Matchmaker cookies! I made a batch today with my daughter and her best friend who had come to play. There are many little jobs in this recipe with children can help with.....it involves a lot of mixing!!

This is the recipe....it is for regular gooey Choc Cookies but I substitute the chunks of chocolate for Matchmakers.

Ingredients

50g unsalted butter

450g of dark chocolate (or 225g of dark choc and a packet of mint matchmakers)

2 eggs

17og soft light brown sugar

1/4 tsp Vanilla extract

85g Plain flour

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking powder

Method

-Preheat oven at 170 degrees C (don't know equivalents because I only wrote down for my oven!!)

-Put butter and dark chocolate (or half chocolate if making plain cookies) in a pan and melt and then put to one side

-Put eggs, sugar and vanilla extract in a bowl and beat until well mixed

-Pour in the chocolate mixture and beat on a low setting/stir until well combined

-Sift flour, salt and baking powder into a separate bowl then stir in the chocolate mixture in 3 additions

-Stir in broken pieces of a whole box of matchmakers (or roughly chopped chocolate)

- The recipe says to divide it into 6-8 cookies but I found these were a bit large. Today I made 16 and they took the same cooking time!

- Bake for 10-15 mins checking regularly after 10 mins.

*TIP* Use a non-stick baking liner/greased baking parchment as these go very gooey and stick very easily, even to a greased baking tray!

These are the big version!

Happy cooking!

Fi

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