English Breakfast and Nutmeg Chocolate Chip Cookies

Faced with a wealth of recipes to make today, back at home, I passed aside the fancy ones that needed yeast and pistachios and edgy flours (which will probably turn up later this week) for a simple, very good cookie recipe from Design Love Fest. Don't judge mine for looking less fancy than Eva's; it's not how big your chocolate chips are, it's how you use them.

This week is for sunshine, dissertation-writing, and catching up with my home team. Em's sweater (from Topshop but sold out!) puts summer in the mind but I must admit that it did hail today. Her siblings struggled with the punctuation of 'Beach, Please!'... have to admit I would've commented on it too if she hadn't got there first. Family friends conveniently turned up at the door just at these came out of the oven (well, AGA, now that I'm home!) so they have been disappearing like hotcakes.

Brownie Biscuits

It turns out, a sleepy Sunday baker can lead to some pretty burnt brownie biscuits. I'd been wanting to try this recipe for a while and a post-ball me thought it might be time to give it a go. Not a good idea. And then of course it was a Sunday so Tesco was closed, and little Sainsburys had nothing to offer in the way of cocoa powder, and only extortionately priced everything else. So meet batch two of these beauties, prepared on a wide awake Monday. 

I love salt, a fact much scorned by housemates. When I was little, my brother used to pour salt onto everything he ate and, since he was my idea of the coolest person in the whole wide world, I promptly followed suit. Ever since I've been a salty over sweet kinda person and so I thought I'd jump on the salted chocolate bandwagon here. I whipped up some caramel to drizzle on top before sprinkling on the salt flakes.

This was all a little sticky, both literally and in terms of timing. I'd go back to the original recipe rather than using mine, which was all a little rogue.