As many of you will know, we are a flat that LOVE tea, and my personal favourite tea is chai tea, so we were all looking forward to these chai and chocolate cookies with bated breath!! Let alone how much we all love chocolate ;) Let's just say, these are winners in our eyes :D
Table laden with cooking essentials :) We made these vegan, so that is why we have vegan chocolate and butter on the counter ;)
I am only 4 grams over the limit, I am sure it won't make much of a difference ;)
Mixing the wet ingredients
Mixing the dry ingredients
Adding both wet and dry, along with the chocolate, and into the fridge for 30 minutes <3 It tasted AMAZING!!! Especially with the banana instead of egg, since Caroline told us that it is bad for you to eat cookie dough with raw eggs ;)
Watching the cookies expand and become all fat and full! Rather like Santa Claus ;) hehe
Eating the cookies right out of the oven <3 You can see how the chocolate was oozing out!! :D If your mouth isn't watering by now, I don't think you understand how amazing these cookies were!!
We then made this recipe once more after this time, since they went so quickly ;), and we decided to add cinnamon and more chai powder (which was stated in the recipe, but I forgot to put into the first cookies). hehe. We also decided to use eggs, instead of banana, since the banana was very over-powering. Not a bad thing though.
It is safe to say that this is an awesome, simple and mouth-watering recipe :D
Homemade peanut butter, here we come!! I was so looking forward to this :D Unfortunately two people in our flat couldn't have this recipe, being Sophie and Pamela, because of either a nut allergy, or being 90% vegan. Nevertheless, it was in the cook book. And I was secretly very happyL More for me!! ;)
Jennifer checking the recipe before we started going. TIP GUYS: THE RECIPE IS THERE TO HELP!!!! Hint, Hint ... Pamela ;)
Setting out the ingredients ready to get mixing
The next step was my job: blitzing the peanuts till it was butter. Apparently not that difficult...
Background story: Jennifer and I had just been to TESCO to get the ingredients right before we made this, but we met with difficulty. Because I bought cashew nuts, instead of peanuts ;)
Note to everyone: Laura is not good in TESCO. Her eyes get dry, and all she wants to do is get out of the shop. So don't rely on her ;)
So ... that meant that we had to go to the COOPERATIVE on the way home to uni, and when we were there it started snowing/hailing. And the kids went crazy ;) haha
So, to blitz the peanuts I put them all in the smoothie maker. I then turned it on until it made a weird sound, supposedly meaning that it had blitzed everything and there was nothing left to blitz. I then unscrewed the smoothie maker, and the peanuts were all mushed up in a ball, not like peanut butter was supposed to be...
So I looked at the recipe :))) The recipe said that if it didn't come together as a butter, you should add some oil. There is usually naturally oils that come out of the peanuts, but since we had gotten roasted peanuts there was no natural oil. So I added extra oil, and it looked like peanut butter. YAY!!
Mixing all the ingredients together
It was looking so yummy :D
The final product!! Sophie was so annoyed that she couldn't taste it!!
Sophie had friends over the night we made the cookies. They must have really like them, because in the morning there was only half of the cookies left ;)
