Oat Cherry cookies *

[capney]

As requested

Oaty Cherry Cookies

250g softened butter
50g caster sugar
100g light muscovado sugar
150g self raising flour
225g porridge oats
200g glace cherries
50g raisins


Oven to 180C
2 0r 3 lined or non stick baking trays
Beat the butter and sugars together until light and fluffy
Stir in the flour and oats and mix well.
Chop cherries in quarters and then add these and the raisins into the oat mixture.
Divide the mixture into 18 portions and roughly shape into a ball.
Put on tray well apart to allow for spreading..Lightly flatten each biscuit with your fingertips keeping the mixture quite rough looking.
Bake for 15-20 minutes until the cookies are pale golden around the edges, but still feel soft in the centre. Cool on baking tray for 5 minutes and then transfer to wire rack.

Notes:
Do allow plenty of room around them on the tray I reckon about 9 cookies to one tray is about right so you may have to cook in batches.
This recipe is borrowed from the BBC book “101 cakes and bakes”

PRINTABLE RECIPE: www.freewebs.com/dagsstudio3/Oaty%20Cherry%20Cookies%20pdf.pdf

[victoria]

Well, they look absolutely delicious Robert ... but how can you folk eat so much bread/cookies and such like?

[DAG]

Does look tempting and might have a go at them but Arney don't like glacé cherries so I end up with twice as much!

As for eating, well I am trying the substitution method and in the case of the Branny loaf, I eat a slice on its own for breakfast and another slice in the evening when I would have eaten some fruit. Total calories per day should still be about the same as long as it is 'instead of' and not as well as. Not lost any weight doing this but not gained any either, so I eat what I like! Obviously I wouldn't be doing this most of the time.

Or as Delia Smith once said, eat what you fancy at the weekend but make up for it in the week. I don't think I could cope with that!

[kedigato]

Thanks, Robert, and I shall be making them soon, am sure the grandsons will go for them as well as yours truely.

[victoria]

I must say with all these oats and bran recipes, you all must be very 'regular' ....

[DAG]

Victoria, spot on! ;D