It was always going to happen. My love of sweet things and butter was inevitably going to lead me toward a tasty space-based treat, wasn’t it?  These began as an attempt at making choc chip cookies.  I didn’t have everything the recipe asked for but I did have other things, so I made substitutions, messed around a bit and came up with really delicious, highly dunk-able cookies!

[image error]Moon Rock Cookies consist of:

2 cups of flour (I used half white, half wholemeal…because that’s what I had), 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda (I used baking powder, they’re different).  1/2 teaspoon of salt, 2 cups of sugar (the recipe said brown sugar and white sugar…I had raw sugar so that’s what I used).  3/4 cup of melted butter, choc chips (insert smashed up block of dark chocolate), 1 egg, 1 egg yolk, a splash of milk (the recipe didn’t involve milk but I thought the mixture was a bit dry).  Vanilla (ummm…no vanilla in my cupboard – don’t know why – so I used a bit of vanilla sugar as part of my sugar component)

In one bowl, beat together the melted butter and sugar (If you’re using raw sugar this takes a little while).   Add the egg components one at a time. When that’s done, create a bowl of all the dry ingredients.  Add the wet to the dry anyway you like (I know it works either way because I did it the opposite way to the recipe) and mix it all up well.

Make little dollops of mixture (or if you’re a kid and enjoy getting into your cooking…roll little balls of the mixture) and place them on a greased baking sheet (or you can use baking paper instead of greasing).

Put them in the oven at 160-165 degrees C and cook them for between 12 and 15 minutes.

My kids refer to the dolloped cookies as moon rocks and the smoothly rolled versions as planets.  I have not bothered explaining that planets are neither perfectly spherical nor smooth…that’s not the point…

[image error]Happy munching!

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