Cookie Monster Cookies

Heya,

One thing that is incredibly important to me is not wasting food or ingredients. This recipe is perfect for this! Cookie monster (aka trashcan cookies) are normal chocolate chip cookies but filled with all the leftover snacks and half eaten packets of bits and bobs in your kitchen (I’m talking sweet snacks not day-old pizza and half eaten pasta!) the recipes itself is relatively straightforward and it is totally up to you what your add ins are making the recipe totally unique every time. When it comes to choosing what to add in, I usually say you need: a biscuit, a cereal, a form of chocolate and something more wacky (eg: pringles) in order to get that perfect element of surprise over what they will taste like each time. I also like to keep my biscuits, especially for this recipe, relatively underdone in order to get that gooey texture which my brother and I love so much- “the texture of the cookie dough at Cream’s” as my brother puts it. Although this may sound surprising, you can’t really go wrong with this recipe and it is the perfect thing to make with kids or just generally to rope the whole family in to get involved!

Here is my recipe for Cookie Monster Cookies:

Ingredients: (makes 24)

• 200g Butter, softened
• 100g Brown Sugar
• 100g Caster Sugar
• 1 Egg
• 1tsp Vanilla Extract
• 2tbs Milk of choice (I use Oat)
• 300g Plain Flour
• ½ tsp Baking Powder
• ½ tsp Baking Soda
• 1tbs Blue Food Colouring
• 75g White Chocolate Chips
• 75g Milk Chocolate Chips
• 8 Oreos
• 8 Lotus Biscuits
• 50g Frosties
• 50g Maltesers
• 50g Sprinkles
• (any other add-ins you want!)

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 175’c, gas mark 4
2. In a large bowl cream together the butter and sugars
3. Mix in the egg, vanilla and milk until smooth
4. Sieve in the flour baking powder and soda and fold in gently until just combined
5. Add your blue food colouring followed by all your add ins and stir (it will get difficult as you add more stuff in)
6. Divide into 24 balls and place on 2-4 greaseproof trays
7. Bake for 7-9 minutes or until them being on the brink of cooked
8. Enjoy!!