With 3 weeks to go until Christmas, its the perfect time to create some homemade gifts, to give to your friends and family?
Every year I make a batch of these chocolate chip cookies and decorate them to look like Christmas puddings. Using royal icing, I then pipe the name of the person I’m given them to, on the front of each of them. Over the years I have found these make a great stocking filler gift and are perfect for a little snack whilst they open the rest of their presents. I also make a few extra for me to enjoy whilst I’m piping all the names.
I absolutely love the flavour of these cookies, they are a really moreish chocolate chip cookie, which has just the right amount of crunch. If you would like to make your own, there is a video tutorial available below or on my Youtube Channel where I give all the details for the exact recipe and all the instructions on how to make them. I then show you exactly how I decorate them with royal icing drips and holly made from the PME cutters.
I then finish them off by placing each cookie into a clear cellophane bag and tying them with a ribbon, making them a lovely homemade gift for Christmas.
Also don’t for get to check out some of my other Christmas related video tutorials.
Christmas Pudding Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients
- 225 g Butter (8oz)
- 140 g Caster Sugar (5oz)
- 250 g Plain Flour (9oz)
- 25 g Cocoa Powder (1oz)
- 350 g Chocolate Chips (12oz)
- Pinch of Salt
- 1 Egg Yolk
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 200 g Royal Icing Sugar to decorate
- Red and green fondant to decorate
Instructions
- Into a mixing bowl sift in the plain flour. Add the bicarbonate of soda, the ground cinnamon and the ground ginger and pop to one side.
- Into a saucepan add the butter, caster sugar, the brown sugar and the golden syrup and place this onto your hob until all the ingredients have melted together.
- You then want to add your melted ingredients to your dry ingredients in your mixing bowl. Using a wooden spoon or spatula mix this all together until it forms a dough. You can finish this off mixing it with your hands to make sure the ingredients are all combined.
- Take a piece of cling film / plastic wrap and push down your dough, coving it over. Place this into the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Whilst your dough is in the fridge you will need to print off and cut out your template pieces. You can find my template here.
- After 30 minutes take your dough out of the fridge. You can then dust your surface with a little flour and roll out your dough until its around 5mm in thickness. Then use a knife to cut out all of your shapes and place on a baking tray.
- Place your cut out shapes into a preheated oven set to 180 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes. You want the edges just to start changing colour.
- After 10 minutes you can take your shapes out of the oven to let them cool. I like to use my templates and carefully (they will be hot) cut around the template a second time, to cut off any areas that have spread in size. This will help your house fit together a little easier.
- You then have all the pieces for your gingerbread house. I like to use royal icing to stick my pieces together. Watch how to decorate your Gingerbread house in my tutorial above.
