Ex-cereal bar cookies x 4

Do you know those candy bars that you take on your backpack for a day out? You know the ones I'm talking about, the kind that are individual wraped and have the bottom covered in chocolate. The ones that almost feel like eating a candy bar, but you don't mind eating them because you convince yourself that it's cereal so it's healthy... At least that's what I do anyway...



But some times you take the bar with you, forget about the "healthiness" of it and eat a real candy bar, or an ice cream or that piece of cake your aunt made or whatever and the poor bar comes back home a little bit mistreated from the bottom of the bag where it sat the all day. So the next time you go out and decide to take a bar you take a "new" one and think that you'll eat that wrinkled skashed one when you're at home. Obviously you never do beacuse you just made a batch of cookies or that ice cream you have in the freezer is more appealing.

So next thing you know you have 4 ugly looking bars and you know it's time to take an action: You decide Cookies! Or at least I decided that anyway...

Because I wanted them puffy I used this recipe as a base, since I liked it so much.

• CEREAL BAR COOKIES

• 220 gr (8 oz) butter room temperature but not very soft
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup dark brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 360 gr (13 oz) stong/bread flour
• 1/3 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 4 cereal bars cut into chunks

Beat butter and both sugars just until they come together. Don’t over-beat. Add the eggs and beat just until incorporated. Mix together the flour, salt and baking powder . When thoroughly mixed, add to batter and stir just until blended. Stir in the cereal bar chunks and any other flavouring you fancy*. Scoop into a cookie sheet or drop by rounded tablespoons. The dough should be neither sticky nor dry. Bake on pre-heated oven at 180ºC (350ºF) for about 12 minutes or until done. Cool on sheet for about 10 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool.

* As I like variety I divided the dough into 4 and added a little different touch to each one:

1. 1/2 tsp cinnamon
2. 1/8 tsp grounded cardamom
3. 1 orange (rind) + 3 tbs raisins
4. 1 tbsp cocoa powder + 2 tbs dark chocolate chunks

And here's a tip: whenever you're baking chocolate cookies and have similar non chocolate cookies to bake as well, on the sheet you have the chocolate ones, place a "white" one so you can check on doneness by its color.