3rd November 2025
Hi my fellow bakers,
I know it’s been a while but I have so many great books and recipes to share with you. How have you been?
Great, I am glad!
I have really missed you.
It’s been really hard to have a break from you guys. However, I have done so much singing with Rock Choir and working on my mental health. It was amazing to sing at St. Mary’s Church in Cerne Abbas.
I want to thank everyone at Rock Choir for making my being able to sing there possible. Biggest thanks to Sadie for all the support she has given me and thank you for holding me up. I have been so sad with my hip and so scared about my future health, Choir helps me forget all that and be in the moment. That church is a fabulous to sing in. We sang with one voice for the amazing Julia’s House. It was so uplifting.
I just want you to know I am okay, I just needed some time for self care at the minute. I have recently had my final hip injection before my surgeon tells me what he will do with my subluxating right hip. It’s coming out of its socket by seventy percent. Ouch. I will be better when I know what Mr. Wek will do. I just want to say goodbye to the steroids in the injection.
I said to by PA today, ‘My right hip feels eighty-six and my left hip is twenty-six’. It will get better soon.
Lets calm down and relax with a scrummy bake. Cooking and baking really chills me and my fabulous PA’s out. Ready. Set. Bake.
Shall we have a look at the recipe for today?
Recipe Finder:
Bethan
Thank you for introducing me to these sweet but sharp cookies. I will keep making these. They are great warmed up.
Date Made: 5th September 2025
Song to bake to: Raspberry Beret by Prince and the Revolution
Recipe: White Chocolate Raspberry Cookies!
Recipe Website: Jane’s Patisserie Youtube
Yum Stars: *****
Jane’s Note:
White chocolate raspberry cookies with white chocolate chunks and freeze dried raspberries making gooey, chewy, and delicious cookies!
Hatty’s Thoughts:
I adore the freeze dried raspberries in these cookies. They feel like popping candy in your mouth, which is what make these so fun! I adore these so much I nearly always double the recipe.
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 12 minutes
Cooling Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour 42 minutes
Serving 12 cookies (this is the normal recipe, I haven’t doubled it).
Ingredients:
275g plain flour
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
½ tsp sea salt
1 tbsp corn flour
115g unsalted butter/baking spread
Unsalted butter
Or
Baking spread
100g light brown sugar
100g granulated sugar
1 large egg
½ tsp vanilla extract
20g freeze dried raspberries
250g white chocolate chips
Instructions:
Step One – Preheat the oven to 200oC/180oC fan and line two-three large baking trays with parchment paper, leave to the side. (greaseproof paper is what we use in the UK).
Step Two – Add the sugars and butter to a bowl and cream together. (cream means mix together.)
Step Three – Add in the vanilla and egg and beat until combined.
Step Four – Add the flour, corn flour, sea salt and bicarb and beat until a cookie dough is created!
Step Five – Add the freeze dried raspberries and chocolate chips and beat again!
Step Six – Scoop the cookie dough using a cookie scoop for even portions, then lightly roll into balls. Jane made 12 out of the batch. Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes.
Step Seven – Leave the cookies to cool on the trays for 30 minutes, then transfer to a rack to cool completely! Enjoy!
Hatty’s Recipe Thoughts
Bethan doesn’t use a cookie scoop to weigh out her dough she uses scales as she finds this easier. I like this recipe because there is a lot I can help with, especially the weighing out of the ingredients. I love when we make a double batch of cookies because it helps with my poor maths skills. If we turn them into something practical it changes everything!
How many cookies can you eat in a day?
As many as you like! Seriously only two. These are so moreish they make me want to go back to the cake tin. These are also great as warm cookie dough. Not that we have tried that. Shh!
Sorry I don’t have a picture of the end result, you’ll just have to take my word for it and give them a try yourselves.
I hope you have enjoyed today’s chat and bake. Next time we meet we will be in The Reading Corner finding the magic inside us for the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Club.
See you soon.
Love
Hatts
Xxx
Hatty’s Reading Corner 
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