Decadent peanut butter and dark choc chip cookies

It is a cold day in Townsville (yes 17 degrees is very cold when you don't have heating) so any excuse to run the oven or the clothes dryer.

I read several recipes for cookies and came up with this which worked wonderfully well
These are a more adult cookie but if you substituted milk chocolate for the dark the kids would probably love them too

Preheat oven to 170 degrees fan forced

Grind 220g raw sugar for 4 seconds at speed 9
Add 60g peanut butter (I used bought but you can always make your own)
120g unsalted butter cut into chunks

Blend 1 minute speed 3

Add  1 teaspoon vanilla extract and 1 egg

Blend 7 seconds speed 4

Weigh 310g SR four into a separate bowl

Add 130g dark chocolate chips (use Cadbury not Nestle for information about the Nestle boycott click here)

Mix on reverse speed 3 for 45 seconds adding the flour through the hole in the lid

Place teaspoons on CT silicon sheet on baking tray - they double in size so leave some space but not too much

Flatten with a fork, your knuckles or I used a CT muffin pan for a neat, flat top

Cook for 10 minutes and allow to cool on racks

This recipe makes approx 40 cookies and they are worth 3 Weight Watchers ProPoints each. But if you have two it's only 5 ProPoints!

Winning!!

Lest we forget

Anzac Day 2014

Dawn service for some members of the household and a facebook profile full of images like this one

I had time to go to a rehearsal, read a book, walk the dog by the river and listen to the 4 Blades Podcast who inspired me to make ANZAC biscuits too!

I followed the first recipe because it sounded very similar to the one I usually make which is from NMAA Cooks (the book anyone without a Thermomix should definitely own, and anyone with a Thermomix should be converting recipes from)

My three tweaks:

I used raw sugar rather than white
I set my oven to 150 degrees as we have a very hot fan forced oven
I used the Chefs Toolbox silicon sheets and rather than pressing down with the MC I used a CT muffin pan

The results:

Delicious!

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them. Lest we forget.