Jealousy is never a
wonderful thing. Im lookin’ at you foodie, I know you’re also jealous of that
ever talented food blogger with the enticing food photos constructed by someone
with an incredibly skilled eye for colour schemes.
So you just gotta make do with what you’ve got and visit the
timber yard every once in a while for cheap bits of scrap wood. Or go to your
boyfriend’s house and rape every inch of their marble worktops with your semi-professional
camera that you hardly know how to use. Thank you boyfriend’s family.
Now think about how jealous the person sitting next to you
in a real slash fantasised setting will be when they catch you crunching (and
then chewing) on this abnormally good cookie. You will bite into this and it will
taste odd, thankfully you won’t be able to stop.
If you ever wanted to sneak
your own popcorn into a cinema, this is the perfect way to do it - crush and
cram them into a concealable cookie; one that slides perfectly into that tiny zip
pocket in your hand/man bag and viola, George Clooney has never appeared so
sensational.
Lastly, I would recommend doubling the recipe in case you
felt like saving at least 2 for yourself.
Chocolate and Vanilla will never make you thinner. |
Adapted from Joy The Bakers Buttered Popcorn Chocolate Chip Cookies
1/2 cup sweet 'n' salty popcorn
1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temp
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 + 1/4 cup plain flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup chopped dark chocolate
Makes 20 large cookies
The Method
Preheat the oven to 180 C and line two baking trays with parchment paper.
Cream the butter and both sugars either with a freestanding mixer or electric whisk, until pale and fluffy - 4 minutes.
Add egg and vanilla.
Add the flour, salt and baking soda and mix on low until just incorporated.
Using a metal spoon or spatula, fold the popcorn into the mixture. Dont worry if the popcorn breaks apart in the mixture, let this happen!
Lastly, fold in the chocolate.
Using an ice cream scoop take a level amount of dough and plop onto the baking sheet, making sure the dough is spaced 5cm apart. Or take a tablespoon and scoop out a heaped amount of dough onto the sheet.
Bake for 10 minutes, leave for a couple minutes longer if the cookies are not yet golden.
Leave to rest for 5 minutes, eat warm or leave to cool.
me and my friends always sneak our own sweets and treats into the cinema, two of my favourites combined! lovely (:
ReplyDeletefrom Emily x
I dont understand why they dont just let us bring our own sweets in, or just drop the price of their own sweets so we dont have to make these kinda cookies! but whose complaining... aha x
DeleteOh yum, your cookies look so good!
ReplyDeleteThese cookies would make me one happy person.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a genius recipe. I'm definitely making these for my next cinema trip...I'm a cheapskates and I love to sneak my own snacks in :)
ReplyDeletei am proud to be guilty of being a cheap skate when it comes to the cinema, costs enough as it is !
DeleteBrilliant idea and so original...I can't even imagine what popcorn would taste like in a cookie...except that it would taste gooooood! :-) P.S nice photos!!
ReplyDeletethank you! it had a unique/amazing taste. thank smitten kitchen and joythebaker for having such original ideas !
DeleteOoh I've never thought to add popcorn to cookies. mmmmmm. does it make them go chewy?
ReplyDeleteI'm also guilty of sometimes sneaking in food to the cinema. There was a sainsburys next to the cinema I went to when I was at uni which we always stopped at to buy chocolate on our way there and one evening a girl at the check out asked what we were going to see. We obviously weren't particularly subtle.
the popcorn gives the cookies a more kind of bubbly texture, not chewy! but sososososo good its a must try! hahaha, hopefully the girl wasnt annoyed that you werent obeying the cinema laws?
DeleteI love sweet and salty and I love cookies. These must be great!
ReplyDeleteThese look lovely! Great pictures too.
ReplyDeletedelicious! would you like to follow each other in gfc and bloglovin? let me know!
ReplyDeleteDone and done :)
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