A very small step to change the world, yes, but a delicious one.
Choc-chunk oat fudge cookies.
Ingredients:
100g-ish fudge
300g milk chocolate (best quality that you can afford. I tend to use Galaxy. DON'T use cooking chocolate)
300g white chocolate
65g butter. Leave it somewhere warm for a while so it is all soft and squidgy.
35g white sugar
70g Dark brown sugar
1 small egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
35g flour
35g drinking chocolate
1 teaspoon baking powder
150g porridge oats
Slice the fudge into slim square/rectangular slices, about the size of a 50p coin. Put these slices aside, they'll be needed later. Also put 200g of milk chocolate aside.
Use a big sharp knife to cut the rest of the milk chocolate (100g) and all the white chocolate into small chunks, like large-ish chocolate chips.
Preheat the oven to 170 degrees C. Now you're ready to start mixing!
Mix together the squidgy butter with the brown sugar and white sugar.
Crack the egg and mix it in. The mixture will look lumpy and gross, that's fine. Stir in a couple of tablespoons of cold water and a teaspoon of vanilla extract.
fold in the flour, drinking chocolate and a teaspoon of baking powder.
add porridge oats. Mix them in. Yum.
Look at the bowl of mixture. Look at the chocolate chunks you made earlier. Think to yourself "That's not going to mix!". And you're right! Not with a spoon, anyway!
Tip the chocolate chunks into the mixing bowl. Then get your hands in there and smoosh it all together! You'll end up with very sticky hands and a mixture that feels like lumpy wet cement. Congrats! This is your cookie dough!
Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper. Make the dough into balls about an inch and a half in diameter (yes, with your hands again, you wuss). Put them on the baking tray and squash them down a little bit. Leave room between them for them to spread a bit. Stick them in the oven for about 7 minutes [edit: this is based on a fan oven. If you don't have a fan oven I guess maybe 9 minutes]. The dough should make about 30 cookies, so you might have to bake the cookies in a couple of batches.
The cookies will come out of the oven still very soft, almost liquid. This is because they are mostly chocolate. They will harden as they cool.
Get the fudge slices you made earlier. As soon as the cookies come out of the oven, place one fudge slice on top of each cookie. Cos the cookies are still hot, the fudge will melt and adhere to the cookies. Yay!
Once the cookies have cooled, melt the 200g of milk chocolate you set aside earlier. With a spoon, put a dollop of melted chocolate on each cookie and spread it so it covers the fudge thickly.
Leave for the chocolate to harden (or don't, they're REALLY good to eat at this point)
That's it! Enjoy!
