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Cream together butter and sugars.
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Add beaten egg and vanilla.
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Add flour.
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Mix well.
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If you are adding chocolate chips or nuts etc, add them now.
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Roll into balls and put onto greased or lined tray and lightly flatten.
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Cook in 180C oven for 10-12 minutes, until lightly browned.
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Cool on rack.
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Variations: I really urge you to experiment with your own flavours.
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See what works and what doesn't.
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That's what the fun of baking your own cookies is!
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Here are a few of mine:.
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I've added mixed spice, ginger and cinnamon, put jam (jelly) in a thumb imprint in the middle.
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When cool, dip the bottoms in dark chocolate and voila!
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A delicious Christmas Cookie!
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Everyones favorite and a huge seller at the cafe I work at, are the Choc, cherry coconut cookies: Replace 25g of the flour with dessicated coconut.
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Substitute vanilla essence with coconut essence.
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Throw in a handful of dark choc chips and a handful of roughly chopped glace cherries.
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They walk out the door.
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Another nice one is adding some orange zest, white chocolate drops and some roughly chopped macadamias.
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A couple of other ideas are: lavender buds; cardamon, pistachio and rose essence (instead of vanilla); and rum and raisin (soak the raisins in the rum).
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Hope you all enjoy as much as I have!
