The perfect Christmas cookie – packed full of gooey melting triple chocolate chips and with so much oaty texture in every bite!

Oh HELLO! You need these cookies in your life! The perfect snack to leave out on Christmas Eve for Santa, these thick, chewy and chocolate-chip PACKED cookies are made even better with the addition of festive cinnamon and chewy oats.

My Christmas Chocolate Chip Cookies {with cinnamon and oats} get some extra festive cheer from these cute red white and green chocolate beans which I found in Lakeland. If you can’t find those, simply buy some smarties or M&Ms and use only the Christmas coloured ones (and you get to eat the spares!).

Are you a cinnamon fan? I love it! Especially my cinnamon buns with cream cheese glaze – they’d be perfect for Christmas morning. Of course, even if you despise it, you can still make these cookies – just leave the cinnamon and they’ll still be delicious.

If you’re ready to bake some seriously delicious Christmas Chocolate Chip Cookies {with cinnamon and oats}, here are some tips:

• Use light brown sugar (usually called light brown muscavado sugar in the UK) alongside caster. It gives a much richer, deeper flavour and helps keep these cookies moist and soft.
• Melt your butter – I know it seems counter-intuitive, but the melted butter helps these cookies to be super chewy!
• Chill – the dough before baking it. This is a must! Anywhere from 2 – 72 hours chilling time will help the flavours to deepen, and will mean that your cookies won’t spread into cookie puddles when baked. The easiest thing to do is simply make the dough the night before you want to make the cookies, then pop it into a tupperware tub and store in the fridge.
• Form rounds of cookie dough – Once you’re almost ready to bake your cookies, remove your cookie dough sausage from the fridge, and scoop out balls of dough and roll them into a smooth ball in your hand. If you want prettily symmetrical and round cookies, you have to make sure your dough is completely circular – perfectly round cookies ain’t happening by accident!
• Freeze – I know, another step! If it’s a chilly day and your hands haven’t made the cookie dough too squishy, you can skip this step, but to guarantee reallly thick cookies, pop them into the freezer fot 10-15 minutes.
• Underbake! A scant ten minutes in the oven is all these cookies need! They won’t look done, but whip them out of the oven anyway and let them cool and firm up completely on the baking sheet.

For years I used store bought chocolate chips to bake my cookies (like Dr Oetker) or chopped up value chocolate. This recipe uses A LOT of chocolate though, and I’ve started using Calleabaut chocolate chips from the Chocolate Trading Company. I buy a kilogram at a time (whoa!) and they’re amazingly yummy, giant chocolate chips – perfect for cookies. The hilarious thing is they’re actually better value  than the ones you can buy in the supermarket – about 60p per 100g!

I just HAD to show you the bottom of one of the cookies – just LOOK at all that triple chocolate chip goodness!

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Welcome back Festive Food Friday!

This year I’m so pleased to be hosting Festive Food Friday along with Sarah at the lovely blog Taming Twins! Thank you so much for inviting me to host this year Sarah! Enter our festive food round up below or by tagging your pics on Instagram! Sarah and I will take turns hosting and posting each weeks round up from today! 

On Instagram

• Tag any festive food or drink photos with #festivefoodfriday     

• Each week Sarah and I will pick some of the most mouthwatering/funny/calorific and repost them 

• You can follow us @tamingtwins and @kerryedwards. Please say hello!

Blog Linky

• Please add the badge below to your post. (Just highlight the bit in the text box and pop it in the HTML of your blog

• Link up your festive season food or drink posts using the widget below.

• They can be recipes, round ups, drinks, meals out, anything that’s inspiring to festive food lovers.

• Old and new posts are welcome. You can add up to 5 posts each week if you’d like.

• We will pin all of the posts added to the Pinterest board, which has over 400,000 followers.

• The linky will be open until midday Tuesday the following week.

• Please visit and comment on at least 2 of the other posts that have linked up, per post that you add. Spread that Christmas cheer! This really helps to make the community.

• If you follow us on Twitter and tweet a link mentioning @tamingtwins and/or @kerrycooksblog and #festivefoodfriday, we will RT them.

• Each week we will write a round up on one of our blogs, linking to every post linked from the week before (this will include a photo from your post – please only enter if that’s okay).

• Please spread the word, the more the merrier!    

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Can’t wait to see what festive makes and bakes you have in store for the last Festive Food Friday! Don’t forget to share on Instagram too by using #festivefoodfriday.
 

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