Cookie Time: The Wandering Scotsman Does Betty Crocker

After lasts weeks near disastrous attempts to make Aberdeen Rowies, I decided to rebuild my baking confidence with something a wee bit easier. And best of all I wouldn’t need Gordon Ramsay’s input, not that he ever responds to my emails anyway!

I was going to make, or I should say I was going to try to make  White Chocolate Chunk Cookies and best of all very little skill, effort or time was going to be required, which is right up my street!

I was wondering around Sainsbury’s this morning buying the ingredients for a Chocolate Beer cake that I’m going to make, whenever I feel the urge. Drinking that Chocolate Beer I had last week at the Greenwich Union has got me hooked on the delights of chocolate again! As I was searching the shelves of the store for the things I needed, I came across a packet with some delicious looking cookies on the front of it…Just Add Water – Makes 8 Cookies…I could do that.

Betty Crocker had seduced me with the promise of 8 white chocolate chunk cookies and for only £1.11, that looked like a bargain to me. Things seemed too good to be true. Surly there had to be a catch…nothing is as ever as easy as it seems! I felt that a disaster could be headed my way again! Betty had lured me, but would she turn out to be a cheap…

I got my mixing bowl, poured in the mixture, added 3 tablespoons of water and stirred it all up. I had a wee taste of the mixture and it tasted delicious. Next all I had to do was drop heaped teaspoons of the mixture onto a baking tray and like magic there was exactly 8. So good so far. 13 minutes in the oven and the cookies were done, I gave them an extra minute so I could have them slightly crispier, Betty Crocker thinks of everything!

When my cookies came out the oven they didn’t quite look as magnificent as the one’s on Betty Crocker’s packet, but at least they resembled cookies…they really did. All I had to do was leave them for a bit to set properly on a cooling rack and they would be ready to be demolished.

So the final verdict on Betty Crocker White Chocolate Chunk Cookie Mix, is that they turned out pretty dam good. I was pleasantly surprised that they tasted so good, and best of all it couldn’t have been easier to make them. Maybe one of these days I will attempt to make cookies from scratch…then again perhaps not!

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