Fruit squares
Treat yourself to these easy currant squares. Add chopped apple alongside the currants, if you like – they're delicious enjoyed with a cuppa
Cereal cookies
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Easy
- plus cooling
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- 100g cereal
- 125g unsalted butter
- 85g light brown soft sugar
- 75g caster sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 175g plain flour
- 125g dark chocolateroughly chopped
Nutrition: Per serving
- kcal278
- fat13g
- saturates8g
- carbs35g
- sugars17g
- fibre2g
- protein4g
- salt0.2g
Method
step 1
Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Spread the cereal (we used malted wheats) out over a baking tray and toast in the oven for 8-10 mins until fragrant. Tip into a bowl and leave to cool.
step 2
Beat the unsalted butter, brown sugar and caster sugar together using an electric whisk or in a stand mixer for 5 mins until light and fluffy. Mix in the vanilla extract, a pinch of salt and the egg. Add the bicarbonate of soda, plain flour, chocolate and most of the toasted cereal, and mix until just combined.
step 3
Shape into 12 balls and arrange, well spaced apart, over two baking trays lined with baking parchment, then flatten slightly. Sprinkle over the remaining cereal. Bake for 10-12 mins, leave to cool on the trays for 10 mins, then cool completely on a wire rack. Will keep in an airtight container for four days.
