Cookie Dough

Recently I watched a Canadian film about cookie dough. The idea is rather than feeling guilty about eating a whole pack of cookies with your tea, you can munch on your cookie like a lemon popsickle.

The cookie dough is not yet sold here in the UK however I'm sure it will soon, anyway because of this I decided to try making it for myself. I will warn you, it did not come out to well. I thought it would save me a few quid, however time is of the essence to I shall continue on with what happened the recipe and how I thought you could go about reproducing this popular product.

Ingredients

500g Flour

150g Dried almonds crushed

150g Brown Sugar

1 Big Blob of Butter

250ml Milk

1 1/2 eggs

Arrowroot

Cadbury's buttons snapped roughly

Teaspoon of Vanilla Extract

The preparation involved melting the big blob of butter and mixing it into the flour, then adding the dried crushed almonds and brown sugar. This was all done in a big plastic bowl, mixing this mixture made me smile and I was confident this would be an enjoyable use of my resources (afterall I could just go to the supermarket and buy my usual buy one get one free deal on chocolate chip cookies). So next I added the egg and half (please don't ask where the other half of the second egg went), the arrowroot and the teaspoon of vanilla extract. So having wisked the mixture in a maliable consistency I then continued to empty the dough onto the wood (clean) chopping board.

This was when rolled into a big thick cylindrical shape, make sure your hands are clean, then begin to roll this giant sausage onto the crushed up chocolate buttons. Change the shape of the dough, then roll, again and again till the dough has thouroghly absorbed the solid chocolate chips. Remember this should be a cool tempreture, before mixing, you don't want your favourite chocolate chips melting before time.

Anyway in the film the cookie dough was of the shape of an industrial Black pudding, so I tried to envision this shape in the rolling process. Which I sort of achieved, but I'm sure you will elaborate in the ingredients and do a better job than I did. Anyway I took this doughy mound and entered it into the oven at 120 degree's leaving it there for ten minutes.

Remember this was only my first experiment with this recipe so anyway I left in the oven for to long, what I wanted to do was just cook it enough to make it edible, yet soft however it ended up being all crunchy so be mindful of this when cooking your cookie dough. If you have it soft enough after about 30 minutes in a slow cooking oven then everything I'm sure will be fine. You should then take out the oven and allow to cool for about 15 20 minutes.

Now take the dough shaped cookie being sure no to allow it to crumble into seperate pieces, and begin to wrap it in cling film. Take this and pop it when fully sealed into your freezer. Leave it there for a while, and you can munch on it whether your having a cup of tea or coffee for supper. You can have it frozen or you can let it thaw and eat it from it's cling film wrapper.

If you don't like this recipe you could try the one done in this YouTube DVD.