These are truly delicious – crunchy round the edges, chewy in the centre
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:10 mins – 15 mins
- Cook:12 mins
- Plus cooling time
- Easy
- Makes 24 cookies
- Freezable
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Ingredients
- 175g unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 140g golden caster sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- 50g ground almond
- 85g chewy toffees, roughly chopped
- 85g/3oz ready-to-eat dried apple chunks, roughly chopped
- 225g self-raising flour
- 2 tbsp milk
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Method
- STEP 1
Preheat the oven to fan 170C/conventional 190C/gas 5. Using an electric whisk, beat together the butter and sugar until pale and creamy.
- STEP 2
Stir in the egg yolks, ground almonds, toffees, dried apple and flour. Mix well together then roll into walnut-sized balls.
- STEP 3
Place well apart on two non-stick or lined baking sheets and flatten slightly with your hand. Brush with milk and bake for 8-12 minutes until golden. Leave to firm up for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool completely.
