Monster Cookies
You can of course bake these cookies as normal and eat them as they are, but that is not half as fun as biting into a chocolate-filled monster.
SERVES
14
PEOPLE
PREP TIME
40
MINUTES
COOKING TIME
10
MINUTES
Ingredients
80g peanut butter
150g soft butter
100g golden syrup
1 tsp bread soda
170g porridge oats
150g plain flour
80g desiccated coconut
90g light muscovado sugar
2 tbsp boiling water
for the filling and decoration
120ml cream
120g chocolate pieces
mini marshmallows to decorate
Method
Preheat your oven to 170ÂșC/gas mark 3 and line two large flat baking trays with parchment.
Put the peanut butter, butter and golden syrup in a saucepan over a low heat until they are melted and combined.
Remove the saucepan from the hob and mix in the boiling water and bread soda.
Mix the oats, flour, coconut and sugar together.
Pour the melted ingredients into the dry and combine with a spatula or wooden spoon.
Roll the dough into 28 balls and flatten them onto your two baking trays.
Bake in the centre of your oven for about ten minutes or until golden.
Allow the cookies to cool on the tray for a few minutes so they firm up enough to be moved onto a wire rack without breaking.
To make the ganache, place the cream in a heavy based saucepan over a low heat. Allow it to come to a shivering stage which happens just before it boils.
Remove from the heat and stir in the chocolate pieces until they are melted. Set aside to cool.
Take 14 of the completely cooled cookies and top them with a spoon of cooled ganache.
Place the other 14 cookies on top then decorate the monsters with the marshmallow teeth and eyes. You can use a little ganache as glue to stick on the eyes.
