Hob Nobs

Ever heard of them? Me either until I went to London! They are very popular there. And since they include all of the ingredients I have to get rid of, I decided to make them. The problem is you can't find the recipe online, so I had to borrow this one from a friend's blog! Keep in mind- these are NOT replicas. They are a recipe someone came up with to make a cookie similar to the Hob Nob! Do not be disappointed when they don't taste exactly the same! But by the way they smell and look, I bet they taste pretty darn good :)

Recipe:

1 1/4 cups oats
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons whole wheat PASTRY flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
2 Tablespoons granulated sugar
9 tablespoons cold butter, cut into chunks
1/2 tablespoon corn syrup
1/4 teaspoon vanilla

4 oz milk chocolate

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350*.

In a food processor, grind the oats til fine.

Mix both flours, baking powder, soda, and both sugars into the oats. Add the butter to the flour mixture until it looks crumbly. You can do this by hand or with a mixer using the paddle. Or you can do all of those steps above in a food processor. Add corn syrup and vanilla. The mixture will look dry and that is ok.

Separate the dough into to 2 balls and place in between two piece of plastic wrap. This makes it easier to roll out. Roll out til 1/4 inch thick. Cut with a cookie cutter into circles. I chose to make small ones, but you can make them as big or as small as you want them. You could also probably use different shapes ;)

Bake until slightly brown. When you remove them from the cookie sheet to put on the cooling rack, be very careful because they are fragile and can fall apart easily! Let cool on a rack completely.

Melt the milk chocolate. Once cookies are cool, spoon some chocolate on top of them and spread around. Once the chocolate starts to cool (make take a while) you can mark them like the original Hob Nobs. Or you can be lazy like me and only do a couple for the pictures ;)

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