These are truly delicious – crunchy round the edges, chewy in the centre

• Preparation and cooking time
  • Prep:10 mins – 15 mins
  • Cook:12 mins
  • Plus cooling time
• Easy
• Makes 24 cookies

• Freezable

Ingredients

• 175g unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 140g golden caster sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• 50g ground almond
• 85g chewy toffees, roughly chopped
• 85g/3oz ready-to-eat dried apple chunks, roughly chopped
• 225g self-raising flour
• 2 tbsp milk

Method

• STEP 1

  Preheat the oven to fan 170C/conventional 190C/gas 5. Using an electric whisk, beat together the butter and sugar until pale and creamy.

• STEP 2

  Stir in the egg yolks, ground almonds, toffees, dried apple and flour. Mix well together then roll into walnut-sized balls.

• STEP 3

  Place well apart on two non-stick or lined baking sheets and flatten slightly with your hand. Brush with milk and bake for 8-12 minutes until golden. Leave to firm up for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool completely.