Hi guys!
This is a slightly different blog post to usual, but still super relevant to
zookeepers! Now, all zookeepers work really hard, and lots of us enjoy munching
on tasty treats at break and lunch. I really enjoy baking in my spare time, and
though I’m not quite up to GBBO standard, the people I work with don’t seem to
care!
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| Tanya Bakes! |
So during
my time at Folly Farm, I baked a couple of times, but my fave was definitely
these Nutella cookies! One of my good friends, Suzie, gave me ‘Tanya Bakes’ for
my birthday – a baking book by one of my favourite YouTubers, Tanya Burr. I’m a
huge lover of cake and cookies so this book is absolutely perfect! My latest
batch of cookies have been the salted Nutella cookies from this book. I decided
to leave out the salt as I didn’t have any flaked sea salt to hand, but they
were still so tasty!
So, for
these yummy cookies, you will need:
200g
unsalted butter, room temperature
300g caster
sugar
1 large egg
325g
self-raising flour
1 teaspoon
of flaked sea salt
200g
Nutella
Oven pre
heated to 180°C, and
line 2 baking trays with greaseproof paper
So to begin
with, you need to cream the butter and the sugar together in a bowl until it
becomes light yellow in colour, fluffy consistency. Then, crack and egg into a
mug and whisk it slightly to break the yolk, add this to the butter and sugar,
and combine well. The next step is to create the dough! Do this by gradually
adding the flour and salt to the bowl, folding it in as you go to create a
dough. It may be slightly dry but don’t worry, the next step fixes that! The
next step is to grab a palette knife or a flat spatula and fold in all the Nutella
to the mix, creating a marble effect. You don’t want to over mix this part or
it won’t be marbled!
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| The dough after marbling the Nutella into the mix |
Use a table
spoon to measure out a desired size for your cookies, roll them into balls and
pat down slightly when putting onto the tray. Don’t forget to leave space
between each one as they will expand in the oven! Now, the recipe in the book
says that it makes 10 large cookies, but I actually made 24 medium sized ones!
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| Dough balls on the tray! |
Sprinkle
with sea salt flakes and bake in the oven for 12 minutes (or less if you have
smaller sized cookies like mine!)
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| Cookies hot out the oven! |
Leave the cookies to cool slightly on the
paper before transferring to a wire rack for cooling as when they are hot, they
are so gooey they may break!
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| Cooling on a wire rack |
Best eaten
whilst warm, or, even better, with some ice cream too!
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| Cookies and ice cream! |
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