I felt a little bad that even though the Ottolenghi cook books is one of my favourites, I’ve only made one recipe from it. I just tend to open it and drool at the pictures and fantasise that I am at Ottolenghi. Yes daaaaaaahlings,I am always fantasising about food and what I want to eat. Sad, isn’t it? Some women fantasise over Johnny Depp or George Clooney, and I fantasise about cake. Well, today I thought I’d try out these cookies. In the book they are made with cranberries rather than blueberries, but the author does suggest using dried blueberries as a substitution for a more “grown up” taste. Well, I don’t know if I consider myself grown up, but I am not a fan of cranberries. They make my mouth feel dry 
*yech*–not nice. You know daaahlings, blueberries are a fabulous super fruit. They are just loaded with anti-oxidants. Well, at least that’s what you can tell yourself as you gobble these up.
By the way, check back because I am going to make the apple cake too. You know, the same one that Mr P ate when we ate at the restaurant. As I said, I fantasise about cakes, and that one is just haunting me. Yeah, there goes all my hard work at the gym…
White Chocolate Blueberry Cookies
Makes 25-30 cookies
Ingredients
- 90g plain flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 100g unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 110g soft brown sugar
- 25g caster sugar
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 80g whole rolled oats
- 60g white chocolate, chopped into chocolate chip sized pieces
- 75g dried blueberries
Preheat the oven to 170C, Gas Mark 3. Sift together the flour, salt, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda and set aside.
Put the butter, vanilla and sugars in a large mixing bowl and beat with a wooden spoon until the mixture is lighter in colour and texture. Gradually add the egg, making sure each addition is fully incorporated before adding more. Add the flour mixture and the oats, then the chocolate and the cranberries. Do not continue mixing once dry ingredients are blended in.
Chill the mixture slightly to help you shape the biscuits. Scoop out a bit of the mix with a spoon and use your hands to roll it into a ball somewhere between the size of an olive and a walnut. Press the balls lightly on to baking trays lined with baking parchment. Make sure you space them a good 6-7cm apart (they will spread more than you expect!). Place in the oven and bake for about 10 minutes untiil they yare a good brown colour. Remove from oven and allow to cool on trays before serving.
The Heavenly Verdict: In all honesty, I just wasn’t feeling these cookies. Neither was Mr P. I was kind of surprised. I really thought I was going to love these. Don’t get me wrong, the cookies were not actually yucky or anything, they just were not to my taste. Grand Master P (my father-in-law LOL) loved them, however. He pretty much gobbled them all up. That made me happy. But would I make these cookies again? No, not unless I was specifically asked to make some more.
These look amazing! I love that you made them with dried blueberries.
I’ve not tried a combination of white chocolate and blueberries. What an interesting flavor combination.
This is going to be in my to-bake list
Thank you for sharing the recipe and beautiful cookies pictures.
I’m like you too – I love drooling over cookbooks and I am pretty sure I haven’t cooked from more than 75% of them! Those cookies do look absolutely divine! I can’t wait to see the recipe for the apple cake too!
These cookies look amazing with the fantastic combo of blueberries and white chocolate! Certainly a must try!
Those look really good! Wonder how they could be shipped to me with a glass of milk.
Your cookies look great even though they not your favourite ones. I’m just thinking if the recipe would work with fresh fruit … I just love cookies with fresh fruit in them
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Delicious!!!!
These look delish. I have some dried blueberries in my pantry that are calling out to me to put in this cookie.
Hello sweetheart!!
Your cookies just look drop dead georgous!!
oooy yes,…!!!! Lovely!
These look Great. I would try them with craisins too. That would balance the white chocolate quite well…… Looks lovely. Will definitely try it out. I live so close to Ottolenghi and reading your posts about it is making me crave going there too…..
I am definitely making these, too – and maybe with my students at school. They look divine, are unique, and – well – blueberries are good for your blood, right?
YUMMMM.
Thank you for sharing the recipe!
I bow to yo, HH!
Valerie
Hey HH,
I just came acrossed your site while looking for recipe and I tried this recipe, oh my they turned out divine! I love the cookies! and I’m going to buy the cookbook. Thanks for sharing
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Found your lovely cookies (blueberries are my husband’s favorite!) tonight as I worked on my blog. And I gave you a mention – even though I opted to enjoy the firelight and (unusual) quiet and leave the baking for another day.
I cannot wait to give these a try, though!