This recipe was submitted by one of our readers, just like you.
Bakery Chocolate and Berries Cookies
Bakery Chocolate and Berries Cookies
"Cooking and spending time in the kitchen is such a joyful and therapeutic time. It’s the time of me catching up with… myself, my thoughts, doing some thinking, contemplating, planning ahead and calling my family and friends. Don’t ask me why, but I do tend to get quite excited about healthier recipes. I think many of us do have this tendency nowadays to opt for healthier eating. We do need to indulge ourselves but yet choose healthier ingredients and ways of cooking our food for a healthier us. It’s also a bit of fashion, right?"
Notes
• This recipe yields anything between 20-30 cookies depending on size.
• There are other ingredients that could be used and alternated or juggled with. Mix and play with combinations!
• You could split the mixture and add some (1-2 tbsp) cacao powder to half and then combine the two of them into nice and marbled ones.
• You can also use white/dark chocolate chunks if you don't have chips.
Makes24 cookies
Preparation Time10 min
Cooking Time20 min
Ingredients
- 90 g brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 190 g oats
- 100 g dark rye flour
- 100 g white flour I used organic- self raising
- 120 g chocolate chips dark
- 3/4 tsp soda bicarbonate
- 1/4 baking powder
- 1 tsp cider vinegar or lemon juice
- 4 tbsp buttermilk
- 1/2 tsp coarse salt sea or pink Himalayan
- 110 g dry cranberries
- 30 g dry cherries
- 50 g dry blueberries
- 4 tbsp desiccated coconut optional
-
Preheat the oven at 190°C/Gas Mark 5/375°F. Prepare an oven tray lined with greased or ungreased baking sheet.
-
Using an electric freestanding or hand mixer, beat the butter or coconut oil with sugar together until light and slightly fluffy.
-
Add the eggs, one by one mixing well after each egg.
-
In a separate bowl combine the oats with the flours and the salt. To this also add the baking soda and the soda bicarbonate combined with the vinegar or lemon juice.
-
Add gradually the flour mixture to the butter one mixing well at a low-speed until it is all nicely incorporated.
-
Add and stir in the dried berries and the chocolate chips.
-
With the help of a teaspoon shape the mixture into little clusters and place on the baking sheet in the prepared tray leaving tiny spaces (approximately 1 cm) between cookies.
-
Optionally once you have gone through half of the mixture add 3 to 4 tablespoons of desiccated coconut to the remaining half so you could have Sam with coconut if you fancy.
-
Bake for 12-18 minutes (depending on their size) or until golden brown.
