Double Chocolate Chunk Bejeweled Cookies

The most precious jewels you will ever have around your neck are the arms of your loved ones...

Jewels around my neck...that's what any normal girl would love.Yes, we also Love the arms around us...but a string of jewels is so much lighter ,no??and the aura creates a halo around our pretty faces...double the result with a single investment!

In this day and age, what man would not want double the returns of his investment.
I'll give yo a better deal...jewels encased in chocolate , with some health benefits thrown in!
What could be better??

Light on the pocket, they give so much pleasure..because they talk about your love for someone...
These cookies will make a girls heart melt.Men , too find stuff hard to resist!

So true...!
All you strapping young lads ...what a sweet thing to do for your girl!
I remember the sweetest thing that my guy made for me...he fashioned me a few pairs of earrings out of rifle rounds-yup bullets-fully loaded...and one pair out of copper pennies.
And ,No. He still is ! My guy!
So I can proclaim all!
BTW, neither of them had any jewels...but they are still precious!
You don't need a person to bake them for...bake them for your self!
Good for you.
Honestly!

The oats and the jaggery/gur and the flax seeds and then, there are the anti oxidants in the chocolate.
Simple to make and sweet dog romeo followed me from the time I cracked the egg open into the mix. He was     shuffling in and out of the kitchen while the cookies baked.And when I carried them out to photograph them in gods fresh air...he followed me out.
Sweet child handed him some m&m's(sweet child has high standards ... and an indulgent aunt!) which Romeo ignored in favour of a few cookie crumbs.
We took pity on him and he looooooooved them!
Ready to gobble more!!!
Romeo vetoed them...

Try them out, they are loosely adapted from a Better Homes and Gardens Magazine recipe.So you really cant go wrong!

for the

Double Chocolate Chunk Bejeweled Cookies...

you need

1/4 cup butter/margarine
1/3 cup brown sugar(I used gur ki shakker-jaggery)
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 egg
2 tsp cocoa powder
1 tsp vanilla
1/8 tsp salt
2/3 cup flour
2/3 cup rolled oats
1/4 cup ground flax seeds
110 gm semi sweet chocolate
55 gm white chocolate-I did not have any
1/2 cup dried cherries-I used tutti frutti

Pre heat the oven to 180C/350F.
Start with the butter. I used fresh white butter.Cream the butter and add in the sugar.This is what  gur ki shakker looks like.You can use brown sugar, but the taste of the jaggery makes the cookie enter another dimension.

Add the plain sugar and whip together.

Once these are whipped together, break the egg in and mix.

Now the cocoa and the flour.Time to ditch the beater and use a spoon.Wooden they say...

Add in the oats-I had ground the all my oats into oat flour to use in the Oats Adai, so went with that. I thought I'll never have to sow any wild oats , but...
That , and the ground flax seeds in.

Now the coarsely chopped chocolate. I did not have any white chocolate...that would have looked really pretty.Correction, I had...but it had found its way into sweet child's tummy...

Truth be told, I used around 150 gms of chocolate. And the dried cherries...well not available, so I used Tutti frutti-Candied Pumpkin-I think.

Mixed it all together.Spoon full of dough onto the baking tray, slightly flatten the top and pop into the oven...for 10 minutes. They will be a little soft when they come out, but harden on cooling.

This recipe yields about 18 cookies.If you have white chocolate, sprinkle some on the top. The cookies will be even prettier.
After you bring the cookies out, leave them for a minute on the tray and  then let them cool on a wire rack.
Store in an air tight container and enjoy the decadence of chocolate...and chocolate.
Sweet Dog seems spoilt for choice.

Beautifully tasty cookies , definitely worth a try.

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