My Own Cookies - With Chocolate-nut-cherry Toppings'!

Total Time: 2 hrs 40 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 10 teaspoons sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla essence
• 2 cups milk
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 3/4 cups cocoa powder
• glace red cherries
• glace green cherries
• almonds or walnuts or pecans or cashews
• dried apricot (small pieces)

Recipe

• 1 mix butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla essence and milk in a large bowl.
• 2 add flour (1 cup at a time) to mixture.
• 3 add baking powder and cocoa powder.
• 4 mix well.
• 5 grease a cookie sheet.
• 6 drop mixture by teaspoonfuls onto sheet leaving a gap of 1 1/2 inch between each cookie.
• 7 add some pieces of broken nuts and cherries/apricots in the center of each cookie.
• 8 bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes at 180 degrees c or until a tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
• 9 allow to cool on wire rack for 10 minutes.
• 10 once i made the balls, i kept them on an aluminium foil on a plate and straight into my freezer. i froze them for 3 hours. after that, i removed them from the freezer and kept into a bowl. now, they are ready to serve. if you wish, you may roll them in sugar before keeping them in the freezer.
• 11 pop into your mouth whenever hungry.
• 12 warning: these are chewy, yummy and delicious nut filled goodies, hence, be sure, to save some for yourself before you are pleaded to make more!