These beasts were spawned from my inability to make honeycomb decent enough to enjoy alone - it requires a lot of patience and yes next time I will follow a recipe and use a sugar thermometer! After my third failed attempt I smashed the honeycomb into shards, mixed them with some cookie dough and chocolate chips et voila! Somehow the pieces of honeycomb appear to have jettisoned themselves from an ingredient to something resembling a tumour but nevertheless they are devilishly moorish and give a crucial sugar rush!
Makes about 14 decent-sized cookies
Ingredients:
125g unsalted butter
40g caster sugar
60g soft dark brown sugar
1 medium egg (beaten)
125g plain flour
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
splash of vanilla essence
100g chocolate chips
100g honeycomb shards/pieces
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
Beat the butter and sugars in a large bowl until soft and fluffy. Gradually add the beated egg into the creamed mixture. Sift the flour and bicarbonate of soda together and fold into the mixture with the vanilla essence (I like to be generous on the vanilla). Stir in the honeycomb and chocolate chips but don't over-mix.
Spoon heaps of the mixture onto greased and lined baking trays, leaving ample space between each cookie as they explode and spread like monsters.
Bake the cookies for about 10 minutes or until golden. As tempting as it is to eat them as soon as they come out of the oven, the roof of your mouth will resent you for subjecting it to molten sugar. After a few minutes on a wire rack they should still be warm and chewy and ready for consumption!
