Christmas Cookies

Preparation time: 25mins
Cooking time: 15mins
Makes 24 cookies

100g organic macadamia nuts
100g organic dried apricots
250g organic unsalted butter
1 cup brown sugar
½ cup caster sugar
2 tsp vanilla essence
2 free range organic eggs
2 cups organic plain flour
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
1/2 cup organic raisins
½ cup organic chocolate bits (optional)
2 ½ cups Abundant Earth Organic Puffed Rice

• Pre-heat oven to 180c and line 2 oven trays with baking paper.
• Roughly chop macadamia nuts and place in large mixing bowl.
• Roughly cut apricots with scissors and add.
• Also chop the chocolate and add.
• Chop butter and place in a separate mixing bowl. Beat until soft and creamy.
• Add brown and caster sugars and beat until the sugar has dissolved.
• Add vanilla essence and eggs; beating well between each addition.
• Measure 2 tablespoons of mixture to form a biscuit and shape into a round form.
• Place on tray 8cm apart to allow for spreading.
• Bake 10-12 minutes.
• Remove cookies from tray and stand on a wire rack until cold.
• For lovely small tasty gifts, stack 3 cookies on top of each other and wrap with a Xmas ribbon.