Happy Un-Birthday

Caroline mentioned last week that it was Karen’s birthday on Monday. Although I’m not a great anniversary celebrator myself, I make exceptions for birthdays in the office so on Sunday evening I made a card, baked chocolate chip cookies (recipe by Cookie Girl and  lifted from The Goddess’s Kitchen's Blog), tied them with ribbon and left a reminder note for the morning.  As I was packing my panniers, I received a text: Caroline had got the date  wrong; the birthday is actually on 11 August.  Nevertheless, they made Karen an unexpected Happy “Un- Birthday” gift which we munched with coffee 

Triple Chocolate Cookies

(recipe courtesy of Eat Me by Cookie Girl and sourced from The Goddess's Kitchen)

Makes 20

Ingredients
200g unsalted butter, room temperature
255g caster sugar
125g muscovado sugar

1 medium egg

1 tsp vanilla extract
45g cocoa powder
255g plain flour
¾ tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 tbsp milk
55g plain chocolate chips
55g milk chocolate chips
55g white chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 180oC/160oC fan oven/350oF/Gas 3.

Line a large baking sheet with greaseproof paper.

Cream the butter and both sugars together, beating until pale and fluffy. Add the egg and the vanilla extract. Once they are mixed, sift in the cocoa powder, flour and bicarbonate. The mixture will now seem a little dry, so add the milk and stir until all ingredients are combined. Stir in the chocolate pieces, but take care you don't over-mix at this stage.

Drop tablespoons of mixture onto the baking sheet, placing each spoonful about 2in apart. If you want to make sure the cookies turn out as neat rounds, pop them in the fridge for half an hour or so before baking. Bake in the preheated oven for 12 minutes.

Let them cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.