Chewy chocolate cookies

This is another fabulous cookies that are loved by both kids and adults. You can add cocoa powder to the mixture to make it taste more chocolaty. When I bake these cookies, it will never be enough and they are completely gone before christmas.




Ingredients

2 eggs
265g brown sugar (can reduce if you want it not too sweet)
125ml vegetable oil
1tsp vanilla essence
150g plain flour
110g self raising flour
1/2tsp bicarbonate soda
1 cup walnuts chopped
150g choc melts halved
3/4 cup raisins


Methods
1. beat eggs and sugar for about 1 minute.
2. stir in oil, essence and sifted dry ingredients until combined.
3. stir in walnuts n choc melts.
4. cover, refrigerate for an hour. (mixture will be soft)
5. roll rounded tablespoon of mixture into balls, pressed down slightly and placed
on greased oven tray.
6. baked at preheated oven 180 degrees for 12 minutes or until lightly brown

Cookies

Since Christmas is just around the corner, I will be baking a lot of cookies for this festive season to be given to friends and relatives. I share with you this wonderful tasting cookies shared by a friend in Mylot where I have great many friends who are willing to share their homemade cookies. Should try this out. You will never have enough.

Holiday Buttter Tarts
1 cup butter softened
2 3oz packages cream cheese (6 oz)
2 cups all purpose flour

Blend together butter and cream cheese; stir in flour. Cover and chill for one hour,or until easy to handle. Shape into 1-3/4 inch balls;press into bottoms and up sides of ungreased muffin cups. Fill each cup with one heaping teaspoonful of raisin filling. Bake at 425 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes; reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake for an additional 10 minutes. Cool slightly in muffin cups; remove and cool completely. Makes 3 dozen.

Raisin Filling:

2 eggs
2 cup brown sugar, packed
2/3 cup butter, melted
1/4 cup evaporated milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 tsp all purpose flour
1 cup Sun maid raisins

Beat together eggs, brown sugar and butter in a small bowl. Stir in remaining ingredients.

Steamed Nestum Cake

Ingredients:

8 large Eggs
2 cups Nestle Family Cereal
16 oz.(453g) butter
1 medium jar of Kaya jam (300 gm)
1 cup plain flour + 1 tsp baking powder
1 cup of milo
1 tin sweetened condensed milk (397 gm)
160g castor sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence

Mix butter and condensed milk and stir until creamy. Add Vanilla essence and kaya.
Mix really creamy.

In another bowl, beat eggs with sugar until mixture look whitish.
Slowly add nestum, milo, flour and butter mixture. Stir well
Pour into 26 cm greased tin and steam for 3 1/2 - 4 hours.
Cover well with aluminium foil