Chewy White Chocolate and Cherry Cookies

I recently stumbled across a rather unusual recipe for chewy cookies and finally got around to making a batch of them yesterday. The results were delicious so thought I would share the recipe with you all!

I am a great lover of those delicious chewy cookies with various fillings from smarties, rolo and crunchie to choc chip, double choc chip and treble choc chip - yum! They are rather pricey at 99p for a pack of 4 as they do not last as long as your usual packet of biscuits. They are available from Sainsburys, Tesco, Asda and Morrisons.

The recipe I used included a secret ingredient - condensed milk - this is the ingredient that gives the cookies their chewyness.

The Recipe

What you will need:

* 225g (8oz) softened unsalted butter
* 225g (8oz) caster sugar
* 170g Carnation Condensed Milk
* 350g (12oz) self-raising flour

Filling for your Cookies

* 150g (5½oz) white chocolate, chopped
* 175g punnet raspberries

But I used white chocolate and cherries

Method

Take a large mixing bowl and cream the butter and caster sugar together with a fork. Next add the condensed milk to the mix and give it a stir. Lastly sift in the self raising flour a little at a time to save making a mess and to make it easier on yourself.

Now add your fillings - Cut your chocolate into large chunks and stir through the cookie dough. If you love raw cookie dough now is the time to have a little taste just to make sure it's ok, taste a little bit more, one last bit - ok, stop now!

Spoon a dollop of dough onto greaseproof paper on top of a baking sheet and press down. Push your chosen fruit into the top of the dough. Remember to leave plenty of room as they do spread out a fair bit. Also make sure the dollops of dough are large otherwise they will be too thin and not chewy.

Put your cookies into the oven on 180 for around 18 - 20 minutes.

Take the cookies out of the oven whilst they are still soft and a little golden. Leave to cool (if you can :P)

This mixture should make around 6 cookies but I managed to make 12 huge cookies. The result is amazing melt in the mouth cookies at a fraction of the cost of shop bought ones.

Nutritional Information

Each cookie contains 170 calories (9% of your daily allowance - I would be happy to eat just 10 of these as mine!)

8.4g fat
5.3g saturates
14.4g sugar


The dough without fruit can keep in the fridge for 2-3 days or for about 1 month in the freezer. Just freeze in small slightly flattened chunks and bake as required!

The fillings can be changed to suit your taste, chocolate chip, oatmeal, blueberry, smarties, marshmallows - the list is endless!

So go and make a batch today - they are delicious!