Giant, soft cookies littered with pink and red Smarties!
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 10 minutesminutes
Total Time 3 hourshours
Servings 10
Ingredients
1stick (113g) of butter,softened
60glight brown sugar
90gcaster sugar
1egg
1/2tspvanilla extract
70gplain flour
75gbread flour
1/2tspbicarbonate of soda
150gsmarties(plus extra to place on top after baking, optional)
Instructions
Place the butter and sugars into a large bowl or the bowl of your stand mixer. Beat on a med-high speed until light and fluffy. Add in the egg and vanilla extract.
Mix until well combined. Sift the flours and bicarb into a medium sized bowl and then add into your wet mixture.
Mix on a low speed until well combined, dough will be stiff.
Place the dough into a medium sized bowl.
Cover the bowl with clingfilm and place in the fridge for 3 hours. Now, I know I said I swear by leaving my cookies dough overnight, but to give these their giant-ness (yes that's now a word) it's best to chill them for 3 hours so they spread a bit more.
Once chilled, line 2 baking trays and preheat the oven to 180 degrees C (350F).
In the UK we can't buy cookie scoops which tell you how many tablespoons they hold, I am pretty sure I have a 3tbsp. Use your cookie scoop and place balls of dough onto your baking trays about 3 inches apart. Flatten the dough balls a little and then press 5-6 smarites onto each cookie. Since these cookies spread, some smarties will end up inside the cookies which actually makes them taste great as they're slightly melted, hence why I said it's a good idea to have extra to place on top once they come out of the oven.
Place the baking trays in the oven for 9-10 minutes, until very lightly golden around the edges and underdone in the middle.
Leave to cool on the baking trays for 2 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Cookies will keep in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4 days.