Triple Death by Chocolate Cherry Cookies

In a bid to save pennies I am very lovingly preparing packed lunches for the OH to take to work. He’s perfectly capable of making his own packed lunches, but you know what, if left to his own defences he conveniently forgets to and then ends up spending a fortune on ready made meals in the local shops.

I’m also trying to save pennies this month, after last month’s big Christmas spend, by using up store cupboard and deep freeze ingredients and only buying fresh fruit, veg, milk, eggs and butter to top up what we’ve already got.

There were a lot of chocolate remnants in my store cupboard. Bits of this and bits of that leftover from baking, so I thought I’d make the OH some double chocolate cookies for his lunch box and use up the scraps. I also found 6 very sad, lonely little glace cherries all by themselves in the back of the cupboard. Not many recipes only use 6 glace cherries and then I remembered I still had some lovely naturally flavoured cherry cocoa powder sent to me by Sugar and Crumbs to sample. Ah-ha! An idea was born!

There’s a fabulous double death by chocolate cookie recipe in The Great British Bake Off: How to Turn Everyday Bakes into Showstoppers cookery book (an Xmas gift from my children) and this is how I adapted it to use up what I had.

Oh my goodness gracious me, well let’s just say that not many of these delights are going to be left for the lunch box. I’m going to have to come up with something else!

Best. Cookie. Ever!

I have submitted this recipe to the Foodie Friends Friday Linky Party at Cindy’s Recipes & Writings, go on, pop over and have a look at all the fabulous creations people from around the world have been making!