Chewy Cookies/Raspberry & White Chocolate Muffins

It's a food day at work tomorrow so I decided to make some cookies and also some raspberry and white chocolate muffins.  the cookie recipe came from the internet and makes lovely chewy cookies (ultra amazing when they are hot from the oven) and the muffin recipe came from a friend.


To make the cookies you need:

250g plain flour
1/2 a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
1/2 teaspoon of salt
170g grams of melted butter (I melted mine in the microwave)
150g dark sugar
100g caster sugar
1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
1 egg
1 egg yolk
Chocolate Chips

The oven should be set at about 170 degrees C

Sift the flour, bicarb and salt (I buy the flour that doesn't need sifting because I'm lazy)
Mix the melted butter and sugar
Mix in the vanilla and the egg into the butter/sugar
Mix in the flour (I find it works best to fold it in)
Stir in chocolate chips

 The mixture on the right is the cookies, the one on the left is the muffins.

You then line a tray with baking paper and put dollops on mixture on it, don't flatten then and make sure you leave enough space for them to spread out a bit.

They only take about 10 minutes to cook, as soon as they start to go brown at the edges they are ready and need to be taken out to cool.

 The sign of approval!

To make the muffins you will need:

100g butter
300g plain flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
175g caster sugar
2 large eggs
175ml milk
150g frozen raspberries
150g white chocolate
Dessicated coconut

Line your muffin tin (I just put cupcake papers in a muffin tin, I find muffin papers too large)
Heat oven to 170 degrees C
Melt the butter and allow to cool
Sieve flour and baking powder (this is your 'dry bowl')
Add caster sugar to dry bowl
Mix eggs, milk and butter (this is your 'wet bowl')
Crush your chocolate.  My husband was in a bad mood due to a naughty child, so I gave him a plastic bag full of white chocolate and a rolling pin and let him vent his frustration)
Gently fold the wet ingredients into the dry bowl.
Mix in the raspberries and chocolate.
Spoon into cases and sprinkle coconut over the top.
Cook for about 20 minutes (I have a fan oven, if you have a normal oven it may take 25 minutes.

 I am quite impressed with how many this mixture makes!

Note - I let the raspberries defrost slightly before I used them; in hindsight they would have been better if I had taken them out frozen and crushed them in to little pieces (maybe inside a sandwich bag) before adding to the mix.