Swedish Chocolate Covered Oat Cookies | Blogmas Day 10

Sunday, December 10, 2017

I wanted to share one of my all time favourite cookie recipes with you guys today: Swedish Havreflarn. But instead of simple oat cookies I decided to give them a little twist and level up with a chocolate layer on top. They're quick, they're easy to make and you only need a couple of really basic ingredients. Well then, "nu börjar det" :-)

This will make about 24 big cookies:

🍪 125g flour

🍪 3/4 tsp baking powder

🍪 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

🍪 1/4 tsp salt

🍪 200g soft butter

🍪 200g caster sugar

🍪 50g brown sugar

🍪 1 egg

🍪 1 tsp vanilla extract

🍪 1/4 tsp cinnamon

🍪 250g rolled oats
🍪 400g dark chocolate

Preheat your oven to 250°C and prepare a baking tray with greaseproof paper.

Mix the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate and salt in a bowl and put aside. In a separate bowl beat together the butter and the sugar (both of them), beat for about 1 minute. Add in the egg, the vanilla extract and the cinnamon and mix well for another minute. Best to use your electric whisk's highest setting for this.

Fold in the flour and lastly the oats, until everything is mixed together thoroughly and there aren't any more lumps in the dough.

With your hands, form ~24 little dough balls and pop them on your baking tray, then flatten them with your fingers to about 1,5 cm height (this is only a suggestion of how they turn crunchy enough for my liking, it's not exactly science here so no measuring tape needed ;-) ). I could fit 8 on one tray and had to bake all my cookies in three turns.

Each tray goes in the oven for 15 - 18 minutes (The first usually takes a little longer than the later ones for obvious reasons). The cookies are ready when they start to brown on the edges and the middles have settled again after rising. Take the tray out of the oven and pull the greaseproof paper with the cookies off to let it cool on your worktop or a wire rack.

Once the cookies have cooled down completely, melt the chocolate in a bain marie, then cover the cookies and set them aside to cool.

And there you go! That's all there is to do. Now pour yourself a cup of mulled wine and munch on your oat cookies while watching your favourite Christmas movies. Mind you, these taste delicious throughout the year, not just at Christmas time :-)

Let me know if you give them a try and tell me what you think of them. Have you been doing some Christmas baking yourselves? What's your favourite recipe? Leave me a comment to let me know.

Lots of Love,
Jess xx