Vanilla and White Chocolate Cookies

These are delicious cookies, buttery, almost but not quite like shortbread, with a lovely hint of vanilla. Oh and the white chocolate caramelizes lusciously.

Makes about 25 cookies

• 125 g butter
• 50 g sugar
• 1 tablespoon cream
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla paste
• 175 g flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 50 g white chocolate

Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celcious

Chop the chocolate into small pieces. Beat the butter, sugar and cream together thoroughly. Add the vanilla paste and mix again.

Dump the flour and baking powder as well as the chopped chocolate into the bowl with the butter/sugar/cream, and mix until it forms a dough.

Prepare the trays with baking paper. Roll the dough into about 25 balls.

Space the balls about 3 cm apart on the tray, and then using a fork, squash them down twice, creating a criss-cross pattern on the top of each cookie.

Bake in a 180 degree Celsius oven for 15-20 minutes or until lightly golden.

Let the cookies cool on a cooling rack, then enjoy!