Honey & Ginger Cookies with White Chocolate Chunks

After the success of my Mini Egg cookies I wanted to try out some new flavours using the same recipe as a starting point. Noticing that the We Should Cocoa theme for April is Honey, and having not joined in before, I thought I would see how I could incorporate some honey into the cookies, as well as chocolate of some kind of course, as that's the idea of the challenge.

If you're not keen on ginger this could be left out, or less added, but we like ginger and these were quite gingery, as well as being very buttery and sweet - a perfect treet for a non fasting day!

Honey & Ginger Cookies with White Chocolate Chunks 
makes approx 20 cookies

110g Butter, softened
100g Caster sugar
30g Clear honey
1 large egg
150g SR Flour
1tbsp ground ginger (adjust according to taste)
100g white chocolate, chopped into small chunks

• Beat together the butter, sugar & honey
• Beat in the egg
• Add the flour, ginger & white chocolate & mix until combined
• Spoon balls of mixture onto a greased baking sheet, spaced well apart
• Bake in a preheated 170C oven for 9-10 minutes
• Leave to cool for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely

Adapted from a Mary Berry recipe I used previously here


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Vegetable Stir Fry {5:2 Diet Recipe}

I'm now starting week 4 of the 5:2 fasting diet and things are so far so good. I've lost a steady 2lbs per week without feeling like I've been missing out on anything. On fast days I eat around 500 calories which usually consists of a late breakfast and then a dinner or a light breakfast and lunch and then a larger dinner. Crispbread's with Marmite have become my new best friend, at only 19 calories per crispbread I have them for breakfast if I feel that I can't wait until late morning. Sticks of celery are a life saver if I get the mid afternoon munchies and My Fitness Pal is a handy app that I use to keep track of my calories on my ipad and phone.

A favourite dinner on fast days is stir fry as I can have a pile of veggies for very few calories, with a stock cube adding flavour, and only 164 calories. I use whatever vegetables I have in, but always courgettes and broccoli.

Vegetable Stir Fry - Serves 1

1 garlic clove, crushed - 4 cals
1 Courgette (175g) - 35 cals
Broccoli florets (100g) - 30 cals
Beef Oxo cube - 13 cals
Chilli flakes - 1 cal

1/2 portion Amoy straight to wok rice noodles (75g) - 81 cals

• Add a small amount of water to a wok & bring to the boil
• Add the garlic, vegetables,stock cube & chilli flakes and steam the veg until cooked to your liking
• Add more water if needed
• Stir in the noodles & warm through