Friday night baking!!

I quite often bake on a friday night! If I go out, its usually on a Saturday night, so I like to relax the night before! I have work this weekend and wanted to make something yummy to keep the pilots going! Tonight I made NZ chocolate chip biscuits from the good ol Edmonds cookbook (NZ classic) and a caramel chocolate slice I found on foodlovers.co.nz.  I find the chocolate chip biscuits from the edmonds book the best, with the little bit of condensed milk, they are always delish! The slice was also quite good, getting the thumbs up from the two male judges! I was worried the topping would all blob together whilst cooking, but it held its shape well. It was super easy to make!!

Caramel Chocolate Slice:

Ingredients

• 175g butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 tablespoons cocoa
• topping
• 100g butter
• 1/4 cup golden syrup
• 1 cup sweetened condensed milk

Method

Preheat oven to 180 C.
Beat butter and sugaruntil pale and creamy. Add vanilla and combined flour, baking powder and cocoa and mix well. Press 2/3 of the mixture into a slice pan and allow to chill.
Melt together the butter and golden syrup, stir through the sweetened condensed milk and set aside to cool. Pour cooled topping over the base and then crumble remaining base over the top. Bake for 25 minutes until caramel is golden. Cool and cut into squares or fingers

Edmonds Chocolate Chip Cookies (sante biscuits):

Ingredients:

125g butter, softened
1/4 cup sugar
3 tbsp sweetened condensed milk
few drops of vanilla essence
1 1/2 cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Cream butter, sugar, condensed milk and vanilla essence until light and fluffy. Sift flour and baking powder together and mix into creamed mixture. Add chocolate chips. Roll tablespoons of the mix into balls and place on a greased oven tray. Use a a fork dipped in flour to flatten each ball. Bake for 20 minutes, but keep an eye on them and pull them out as soon as the bottoms go golden.
Makes about 25 cookies.