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I have several chocolate recipe books and one of it is The Australian Women’s Weekly Sweet and Simple Chocolate recipe book. It has quite a few great recipes that are really sweet and simple. One of it is the Fruit and Nut Choc Chip Cookie Recipe. I tried it out and it was absolutely great! The best thing about it is that it doesn’t need that much sugar too.

It contains dates, almonds, rolled oats and chocolate chips, that’s why it doesn’t need that much sugar.

The actual recipe used chopped pecans and since I don’t have that, I substituted with almonds. All you really need to do is to beat the butter, sugar and egg together and then stir in the rolled oats, seeded dates, almonds and choc chips.

Then scoop spoonfuls of the batter onto the baking tray and bake. You will get these…

Here is the recipe:

Fruit and Nut Choc Chip Cookie Recipe

Ingredients

125g butter

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 egg, beaten

1 1/2 cup self-raising flour (or use plain flour and add 1 tsp baking powder)

1/4 cup rolled oats

1/2 cup chopped seeded dates

1/2 cup chopped, toasted almonds (or pecans)

1/2 cup chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Beat butter, sugar and egg until smooth.

2. Add in the rest of the ingredients and mix thoroughly.

3. Roll batter into small balls and place on greased baking sheet. Flatten it slightly with a floured fork.

4. Bake in preheated oven at 180°C for about 15 minutes.

5. Stand for 5 mins before placing on wire rack to cool.

The cookies contain very little sugar compared to other cookie recipes BUT it is still quite sweet because of the dates and the chocolate chips. The rolled oats definitely added some texture to it and the toasted nuts gave it the extra crunch.

I do have quite a few more simple dessert recipes to share but before I post them, I thought I’d give you a look at them first and also a special ice cream sundae you can do at home with any store bought ice cream.

Ice cream sundae

All you need are some plain vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream. For the garnishing, you need chocolate sauce, marshmallow, chocolate chips and plain butter cake (or cheese cake, if you prefer). Just scoop the ice cream onto the dish, dribble on the chocolate sauce, sprinkle the chocolate chips on top and then add the marshmallows and the cake (broken into smaller pieces).

This really hits the spot on a hot afternoon. Or any time of the day. Definitely NOT a diet food. Heh.

Homemade Oreos

Do you know you can make your very own Oreos? Not the exact ones but close enough. I tried making them and let me tell you, it’s really worth the trouble. At least you know what’s in them.

Rich butter cake

I love the smooth, rich taste of butter cake too and the best part is that it’s pretty easy to make too.

What’s missing are some cherries and nuts but since I don’t have that on hand, it will have to do as it is.

Rich butter cookies

Butter cookies are also another simple recipe you can make and enjoy. Once you’ve made your own, you won’t want to buy those manufactured ones EVER. Amazingly, these cookies only need flour, sugar and butter. Easy. I use chocolate chips as decoration.

That’s it for this post. I will be posting up the recipes for the homemade oreos, butter cake and butter cookies pretty soon. Just remember to check back here.