Step 1:
1. Cream the sugar and butter together until creamy. If you’re using hot choc powder, add it in now. Preheat the oven to gas mark 4 or about 220*. Step 2:
2. Add your flavouring (cherries, chocolate, whatever you want) and the milk. Step 3:
3. Sieve in the flour and mix with a spoon. When you can’t mix it any more with the spoon, make into a dough with your hands. Step 4:
4. Make into balls and flatten with your palm. Put about 4 on a tray – these seem to spread varying amounts, so see how much yours spread on the first batch, then adjust amount of cookies on the sheet accordingly. Step 5:
6. Halfway through cooking (7 mins) flatten with an egg slice/flat object). Step 6:
7. Finish cooking and cool. Step 11:
Dip half and half into melted chocolates to impress your girlfriend/boyfriend/friends. Step 13:
You’ll need either about 100g of chopped milk choc/white choc/dark choc. Step 14:
Place in a glass or pyrex bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Step 15:
Mix slowly until melted, dip in your cookies and leave to cool on a wire rack. Step 16:
If you want to be really fancy, dip each side in a different kind of chocolate. Step 19:
roll dipped cookies in mixed nuts Step 21:
Or: Dip cookie completely into chocolate and then drizzle a different colour over the top. Set aside to cool. 