With January behind us, we thought you all deserved an extra special treat and sometimes one dose of chocolate just won’t do.  So here’s a double dose of MIA in this cracking cookie recipe, that will always put a smile on the face – whatever the weather.  We dare you to try and stop at one cookie.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup vegan butter/marg
• 2 tsp pure vanilla extract 
• 2 large eggs
• 3 cups plain flour
• 2 cups of coconut sugar or brown sugar
• 1tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1tsp baking powder
• Pinch of sea salt
• 2 bars of MIA – flavours of your choice! One for the chocolate chunks and one for the pieces on top.

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180c degrees and line a baking tray with baking paper.
2. Chop up one bar of MIA chocolate into 1cm chunks.
3. Then, take a bowl and mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and baking powder. Put to one side.
4. Next mix together the butter and sugar until combined. Beat in eggs and vanilla until fluffy.
5. Mix both bowls of ingredients together.
6. Now the fun bit – add the MIA chunks to the bowl of cookie dough. Once everything is mixed in evenly you are ready to roll your dough.
7. Roll small balls of cookie dough into the palm of your hands. Press down on the baking sheet. You should have roughly 10/12 cookies.
8. Bake in preheated oven for approximately 6 minutes – just before they are fully baked. At this stage pull them out of the oven and take larger pieces of MIA and push these into the top of the soft, half-baked cookie.
9. Cook for a further 2-3 minutes and take them out when they are just turning brown. The MIA chunk on top should not have fully melted.
10. Let them sit for a minute before moving them carefully on to a wire rack.

If you can wait a second longer do…if not, enjoy! Let us know about your MIA creations by tagging #MIAFoodie.