Back for another year of the cookie advent calendar, Lisa’s blog always leaves me drooling. Her beautiful photography, delicious recipes and fun writing has made United Cakedom one of my favourite stops on the internet.
I know several of my friends and family who will be dying to get their hands on this cookie – cookie butter is a really popular ingredient so to put it into a cookie, and then add marshmallow fluff… genius!
guest post by Lisa from United Cakedom
Lisa’s previous kitchen frolic cookie recipe advent calendar posts:
– 2013: snickerdoodles
Cookies, what can I say about them that isn’t already known by all? Cookies are probably the easiest baked-good out there, all you do is mix the ingredients together and slap them on a tray and bake. Delicious goodness in 15 minutes!
It is because they are pretty hassle free that they make the best gift ever. Who would honestly say no to a batch of home baked cookies? I know I would never turn it down, unless of course the cookies had hazelnuts in them. I really don’t like hazelnuts…. That however is a tangent for another day!
Basically I am here to say that cookies are good and these cookies are amazing. I used Cookie Butter to make thumbprint cookies and filled the “thumbprint” with Marshmallow Fluff. My cookies spread a little bit, probably because I smooshed them down a bit. You aren’t really suppose to do that. That doesn’t mean they didn’t taste amazing!
You should try them for yourself! This recipe makes over 3 dozen cookies so you could easily give a dozen away as a Christmas gift and if you did you will probably be hailed as the best gift giver ever. Here’s how I made them:
ingredients
- 1 1/3 cups plain flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda (baking powder)
- 1 tsp flaky sea salt or 3/4 tsp fine sea salt
- 1 stick/114g unsalted butter, melted
- 1/2 cup muscovado sugar or light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup Cookie Butter/Lotus Biscoffi
- 1/2 jar of marshmallow fluff
directions
- Mix the flour, baking soda, salt and then set aside. In another bowl mix the sugar and melted butter, before whisking in the egg, vanilla, and peanut butter. Fold in the flour mixture until just combined. Cover the cookie dough and refrigerate for an hour. Don’t worry if you need to leave it for longer, you can leave it over night if you must!
- Preheat the oven to 325F/160C/gas3 and prepare two baking sheets.
- Shape the dough into 1-inch balls. The dough is a little crumbly, just give it a smoosh or two in your hands and it will come together. Place each ball on the prepared baking sheets about 2 inches apart. Bake the cookies for 15-18 minutes, half way through switch trays from top to bottom. The cookies should be lightly colored on top and underneath, one cookie will need to be sacrificed to check the bottom. Because the cookies are soft to the touch as they come out of the oven when you turn one over it will most likely crumble.
- Which is okay as they firm up while they cool. Which is why when they come out of the oven you need to put the “thumbprint” in the cookies before they cool. I used the bottom of a wooden spoon to make a hole in the middle to hold the marshmallow fluff a bit better. When making the “thumbprint” you need to be very gentle as the cookies are sensitive.
- Fill the “thumbprints” with marshmallow fluff, the stuff is sticky so put about half a jar into a baggie and then cut one corner off to pipe the marshmallow fluff into the thumbprints. Sprinkle with sprinkles if you’d like and then enjoy!
Thanks Stephanie for letting me share this cookie recipe on your blog for your Cookie Advent Calendar! I look forward to reading all the other cookie recipes you have lined up! If you liked this post come find me on my blog or on Twitter @unitedcakdom or Instagram: unitedcakedom
Check out the rest of the Cookie Recipe Advent Calendar here!
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