Realising I had a load of porridge oats and margarine to use up quite soon, the obvious solution was to

*Edited as saw bits were left out and have since found different quantaties worked better-

Makes 25 cookies

COOOKIIIEESS

150g plain flour

150g porridge oats

150g Stork margarine/ butter

150g white sugar

2 tbsp honey

2 tbsp milk

2 tsp baking powder

50g white chocolate chips

Chocolate icing drizzle

2 tbsp Stork margarine/ butter

4 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder

4 tbsp icing sugar (caster sugar will work too)

1 teasp milk

Couple drops of vanilla extract

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You will need two baking trays for this, or bake in two rounds.

Preheat your over to 180 deg/ 350 f/ Gas 5. Rub some butter over a greaseproof sheet and place on a baking tray. Make sure to grease it thoroughly.

Starting with the cookies, mix your dry ingredients in a bowl using a spatula.

In a microwavable bowl (a cereal bowl is perfect), add the honey, water and the butter. Heat on high for 30-50 secs, depending on your microwave. Stop every 15-20 secs to check it’s ok.

When melted, mix with the spatula/ a ceral spoon and add to the dry mix. Mix it up, until fully combined. It takes no time at all, and it leaves the sides of the bowl clean. Add the chocolate chips, and mix evenly.

Taking half ceral spoon sized lumps, roll into balls and place on the greasproof paper. Once you have roughly 12-15 per tray, evenly spaced out, flatten slightly using yout middle and index fingers.

Pop into the oven for 15-20 minutes.

Remove and leave cool for ten minutes on  wire rack before attempting to remove them. I found that loosening them at the sides helped take them off whole. I imagine making sure they’re loose before drizzling the chocolate icing is better than doing it all at once later.

For the icing drizzle, add the water and margarine to a bowl (reuse the cereal sized bowl from earlier). Melt the margarine the bowl  in the microwave on full power for about 40 seceonds, checking on in intermittently.

Now, I was too lazy to take out the electric whisk, so just chanced it with a spoon here. Add in the cocoa, icing sugar and vanilla. Mix until fully combined. Leave it for a minute or two and it should thicken up a little after a few minutes. I learned this the hard way and it was a bit runny at first.

Using a spoon, drizzle over the cookies. The closer the spoon is to the cookies, the better.

Leave to cool and the drizzle should harden enough to pack them up if you need to, no smeared icing here, thank you very much.

Alternatively, you could half dip the cookies in the chocolate.

So, despite winging it through this and feeling generally like this….
It turned out well in the end. Fake it ’til you make it, wha’!