Biscuit Bonanza

Reading over at Planning Queen I found out about some delicious and easy to make biscuits. So today I decided to make them. The original recipe can be found at Picklebums place.

I adapted it a little because it wouldn’t be me cooking if I didn’t tamper with the original.

We’ve been getting our groceries through Coles Online and this week they gave us a few freebies, one of which was a tin of Nestle Top N Fill Choc.

Now once upon a time I used to make caramel by boiling a can of condensed milk for several hours – which is really rather dangerous so don’t do it at home kiddies. Anyways I figured our can of Nestle Top N Fill Choc was basically condensed milk, turned to caramel with chocolate added. So I could use that instead of the plain condensed milk called for the in the recipe (because i didn’t have any of that) .

Being the healthy type I also substituted the 5 cups of self raising flour – 3 cups of self raising flour and 2 cups of wholemeal self raising flour.

So now we have

500g of Nuttlex (dairy free margarine)

1 cup of sugar

1 tin of Nestle Top N Fill Choc

3 cups of self raising flour

2 cups of wholemeal self raising flour.

I totally missed the bit about creaming the butter and sugar and just put all the ingredients in together and mixed them. Thankfully I did have the brains enough to move Fred before flour exploded all over her.

After I’d mixed it all together the uncooked dough taste so yummy I ate it all and never got to the baking stage…. ah no, not really, but it did taste mighty nice.

So I’ve put half the dough into the freezer rolled up into log shapes, ready to slice up and cook later, like I do with my choc chip cookies.

The other half the girls added their fav. cookie extra’s to (Heidi – sprinkles & choc chips, Annie – sprinkles). I preheated the oven to 180C and put baking paper on oven trays.

We ignored the bit about rolling into balls and flattening with a fork. Instead the girls and I adopted the quick and dirty method of dropping teaspoonfuls of the dough onto a oven trays. Going for the ‘rustic’ look .

Cook in the oven for 10 minutes.

The Verdict: These were super yummy hot from the oven.

Next time I’d probably make them using all wholemeal flour.

You do end up with a ton of cookies so be prepared for that.