What do you mean it's not Christmas yet?

I love Christmas.

I love cookies.

I love planning my Christmas Cookie Exchange party.

This year will be the second time I have hosted one. I can't wait.

I've got a few cookie recipes to try out.

The first one is a cranberry and white chocolate biscuit recipe involving one of my all time favourite ingredients, condensed milk.

This recipe yields a lot of biscuits. It would work very well if you needed to bake for a school fete. They are really yummy with a semi-crisp shell but a soft and crumbly centre which is owed mostly to the condensed milk.

The cranberries and white chocolate work well together and give the biscuit a very festive look. If I go with this recipe I will drizzle each biscuit with melted milk chocolate, maybe with sugar sprinkles too.

I think a decoration trial will be in order soon too.

I'm un-Australian

Why?

Because I really don't like Vegemite.

I never have.

I just can't stand the strong taste.

It looks like car grease.

Plus the texture is too slimey.

But I love peanut butter.

Peanut butter on toasted anything.

Peanut butter on celery.

Especially peanut butter in biscuits.

There is nothing better than baking biscuits with peanut butter.

Creaming the butter and the sugar, adding the eggs, sugar and vanilla (I'm pretty heavy handed when it comes to vanilla). Then comes the best part.....the add ins. This recipes has half a cup of peanut butter added in with the chocolate chips. Sometimes I also add half a cup of oats for some extra chewey-ness.