Beat the credit crunch and bake your own Christmas gifts with celebrity chef Phil Vickery. Each week we are running a simple recipe for you to try over Christmas.
This week: Raspberry and White Chocolate Chunk Cookies
This could arguably be the best ever cookie dough you will ever make – the secret is adding the condensed milk which gives you the most wonderful texture – crisp outside and soft centred’.
Christmas is fast approaching so why not bake a batch, place them in a lovely gift box and that’s one less present to think about’.
Makes about 20-30 cookies (depends on the size)
Preparation time:
10 minutes
Cooking time:
15-18 minutes
Ingredients:
225g (8oz) unsalted butter, softened
225g (8oz) caster sugar
170g tube Carnation Condensed Milk
350g (12oz) self-raising flour
150g (5½oz) white chocolate, chopped
175g punnet raspberries
Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 180C, 350F, Gas Mark 4.
2. In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar, until pale and then stir in the condensed milk. Sift in the flour and then work into a soft dough with your hands.
3. Mix in the chocolate.
4.Take a small handful of dough and flatten with your fingers.
5. Place 2-3 raspberries into the centre of the cookie and fold over the sides of the dough to encase the raspberries.
6. Repeat with the remaining dough.
7. Place onto parchment lined baking trays, spacing well apart and bake for about 15-18 minutes or until golden brown at the edges, but still a little soft.
8. Leave to cool slightly and set before transferring to a cooling rack.
9. The dough without the raspberries will keep in the fridge for 2-3 days or for about 1 month in the freezer – freeze in small slightly flattened chunks and bake as required!
Tips:
Try these other combinations:
Roasted hazelnuts and dark chocolate
3tbsp cocoa mixed into plain dough with white and dark chocolate chunks added at the end.
Dried cranberries and macadamia nuts
Ripple in some Carnation Caramel and add some chopped stem ginger Orange zest, raisins and cinnamon
Click here to visit our Christmas directory for more recipes and lots of ideas for Christmas.
For more delicious recipes and the chance to meet and film with celebrity chef Phil Vickery see www.carnation.co.uk/competition