the after school cookie

Julian worked from home today, and taking pity on my slaving over a never ending pile of washing, disappeared at 3pm to collect Abigail from school.  What a treat!  And a little window of time to bake some cookies for afternoon tea - peanut, oat and sultana cookies.

Ingredients - this is a small batch good for one round of afternoon tea and then some after supper sneakiness

60 grams of butter

60 grams of peanut butter (I used unsalted by mistake an it still tasted fine but regular would be better)

1/2 cup of brown sugar

1 egg

1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1/2 cup of plain flour

1 teaspoon of baking powder

1/4 cup of oats

1/4 cup of sultanas

Method

Heat oven to 180 celsius. Beat the butter, peanut butter and brown sugar in a mixer.  When creamy and wonderful, add the egg and vanilla.  Beat until combined.  Stir the baking powder through the flour and then add to the buttery, eggy mix in the mixer.  Continue to beat slowly until combined.  Add the oats, still beating, then the sultanas, still beating.  Done.  Roll blobs of batter (the size of cumquats) in hands - do this quickly and lightly ’cause it’s pretty sticky - I don’t press the dough blobs down - they ooze out nicely by themselves whilst in the oven.  Place on cookie tray.  Bake in oven for 15 - 20 minutes.

Poor a tall glass of milk, and eat whilst warm - yum!

Don’t bother putting them away - leave them on a plate in the kitchen and by the end of the evening this perfectly sized batch of cookies is gone! :-)

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