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    Chocolate Fudge Cookies

    Chocolate Fudge Cookies cooling on a wire rack

    Ask me to tell you a particular, significant date in history and it's very likely that I will be hopeless.  Ask me to list the Kings and Queens of England through the Tudor and Stuart era and I'll probably fall at the first hurdle.  But ask me which dishes I ate at a restaurant I visited months ago and I'll be there ... and while you're at it, ask me where I first came across a particular recipe and I'll tell you without hesitation.

    So, Rachel, where did you first come across the recipe for these gorgeous Chocolate Fudge Cookies?

    Well, let me tell you the story ...

    I've told you before how hot it gets in Dubai during July and August and how lots of people escape to somewhere cooler if they can.  During our second summer in Dubai, we were lucky enough to be able to borrow a friend's holiday apartment on the border between Gibraltar and Spain for a week during July.

    It was a perfect apartment in a development based around a fantastic swimming pool, and as the schools in Europe hadn't finished for the holidays, we generally had the pool to ourselves. What a treat.

    It was a simple holiday and we soon fell into our daily routine -

    Breakfast; gather stuff for the pool (not forgetting the ever-popular ENORMOUS water guns); decide whose turn it was to press the button to open the electric garage doors on the way out (definitely a holiday highlight when you are 9, 7 and 4); wander down to the pool where Joe would give me a half-hour stroke improvement swim lesson (yes, even at 9 years old he was a WAY better swimmer than me) and then I would spend half an hour teaching Hella to swim.

    Water pistols

    After that, we would play around in the water until lunch (I remember a lot of cheese on toast) and then we returned for more pool action in the afternoon.

    I had found a big pile of foodie magazines in the apartment, so each afternoon, I would bring a few of them to the pool and sift through them, scribbling down recipes and avoiding the water jets from the ENORMOUS water guns.  I was also on a mission to capture the perfect family photo of the children in action, jumping into the pool.  Blimey - never did I think we would still be trying on our last day!  I'm uncertain whether I was using a camera without a 'sport' setting or whether I hadn't read the manual, but boy I made heavy weather of it.  I have shot, after shot, after shot of attempts to get it right ... some more successful than others - but it certainly kept us all occupied.

    Jumping in pool success

    These Chocolate Fudge Cookies, it has to be said, always make me think of our lovely holiday in Gibraltar.  The original recipe came from one of the magazines in the apartment - probably 'olive' or 'delicious',  but either way, they are super yummy. It really was one of those wonderful trips that has left me with such funny memories that always make me smile. This was the trip when we ventured to the beach one day and inadvertently found ourselves in the nudist area. For boys aged 7 and 9, seeing old men with 'real-life bare bums' was possibly the funniest thing in the world! It was also the trip where we struggled to find anywhere that would serve dinner before 8pm (anyone would think we were in Spain!) - nutritious dinners such as heart-shaped lollies and coke resulted ....

    Lollipop and coke for dinner

    And it was the trip where we lost the remote control for the TV down the inside of the complex 'lazy boy' armchair on our second day ... and of course, it was set on the childrens' channel. How I laughed evening after evening while watching the many and varied director's cuts of 'You've Got Mail' - the only DVD that I could find. Go on - ask me a question about the late, great Nora Ephron - I'll probably do quite well on that one too ...

    Anyway, let me tell you more about these Chocolate Fudge Cookies ...

    The secret ingredient is the tin of condensed milk which gives a lot of bang for its buck, and, of course, using the best chocolate that you can find makes all the difference too.

    Three types of chocolate for Chocolate Fudge Cookies
    Chopped chocolate and an empty bowl for Chocolate Fudge Cookies

    The cookie mixture is very well-behaved and doesn't break up or crumble. It's also quick and easy and is utterly delicious.

    Chocolate Fudge Cookie dough on tray
    Chocolate Fudge Cookies ready to bake

    Here are 5 things that I think you'll appreciate about these cookies -

    1. The flavour and texture are quite grown up - a rich, fudgy, decadent taste
    2. Having said that, my children love them too.
    3. They are at their absolute best on the day that you bake them but if you can keep them long enough, will be nice a couple of days later stored in an airtight container.
    4. They are egg-free, which may be handy to know.
    5. They are pretty enough to be the perfect ending to dinner and look really rather professional if you wrap them in a pretty cellophane bag to give as a gift.

    This is high impact, low effort stuff. Go on - grab yourself a tin of condensed milk and get baking ...

    Two Chocolate Fudge Cookies on a book this …

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    Chocolate Fudge Cookies

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    The cookie mixture is very well-behaved and doesn't break up or crumble.  I make these cookies a lot and they are consistently gorgeous!

    Tweaked from a recipe in 'delicious' magazine - I think!

    • Author: Rachel Page
    • Prep Time: 20 mins
    • Cook Time: 12 mins
    • Total Time: 32 mins
    • Yield: 30 1x
    • Category: Cookies
    • Method: Oven baked
    • Cuisine: British

    Ingredients

    Scale
    • 50g (2oz) butter
    • 250g (9oz) good quality dark chocolate (I used Lindt 70% cocoa solids)
    • 397g (14oz) can condensed milk
    • 225g (8oz) self raising flour
    • 50g (2oz) good quality milk chocolate
    • 50g (2oz) white chocolate

    You will also need -

    3 baking trays

    Instructions

    1. Lightly grease 3 baking trays.
    2. Melt the butter and 200g (7oz) of the dark chocolate in a large bowl in the microwave. Stir in the condensed milk and then leave to cool.
    3. Chop the remaining 50g (2oz)of dark chocolate as well as the milk and white chocolates into small pieces. Save some to decorate the tops of the cookies and stir the balance into the mixture with the flour.
    4. Chill the mixture until firm enough to handle.
    5. Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C Fan/350ºF (gas mark 4).
    6. Roll large teaspoons of the mixture into balls and arrange them on the prepared baking trays, spread well apart.
    7. Now use the remaining chocolate pieces to decorate the top of the cookies.
    8. Bake for 12-15 minutes. The cookies should still look soft and will glisten. Don't overcook them as they will quickly become hard and lose their fudgy quality.
    9. Carefully remove the cookies with a palette knife and cool on a wire rack.

    Keywords: treats, afternoon tea, indulgent

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    Comments

    1. Vivien Morton

      October 19, 2016 at 7:24 am

      Look delicious! Would it work putting the pieces of chocolate INSIDE the cookies or would it 'spoil' the fudgy texture?? (Sort of like "Bens Cookies"??
      Thanks!

      By the way, do have a recipe of a GOOD, MOIST CHOCOLATE FUDGE CAKE (WITH FUDGE ICING OF COURSE???
      THANS AGAIN!!

      • Rachel

        October 19, 2016 at 12:05 pm

        Hi Vivien, I've not tried putting the chocolate inside (mostly because I like the look of it!) but I can't see why it wouldn't work. They are indeed delicious cookies!

        In terms of a Chocolate Fudge Cake this is my favourite one - https://marmaladeandme.com/how-to-make-a-chocolate-cake/ - it's more of a chocolate sponge than a fudge cake but it's really good. The frosting is gorgeous too (and very fudgy) - try making the frosting with all dark chocolate if you want it to be richer.

        I also remember making this cake https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3092/ultimate-chocolate-cake?IGNORE_GEO_REDIRECT_ONCE=true, years ago from the BBC Good Food site. It was gorgeous, albeit quite a lot of work.

        Happy Baking!

    2. Vivien Morton

      October 19, 2016 at 7:25 am

      Look delicious! Would it work putting the pieces of chocolate INSIDE the cookies or would it 'spoil' the fudgy texture?? (Sort of like "Bens Cookies"??
      Thanks!

      • Rachel

        October 19, 2016 at 12:06 pm

        See my reply above! (or maybe it's below - not sure!)

    3. Jon

      November 12, 2016 at 3:54 am

      Hi dear friend,

      Did you used sweetened condensed milk ?

      Can't wait to try them.

      Thank you (from Belgium)

      • Rachel

        November 29, 2016 at 10:25 am

        Hi Jon, yes I used sweetened condensed milk. Enjoy - I'm certain that you will!

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