Rolo Bombs

According to my kids these are the best cookies I've ever made.  I've experimented with a lot of recipes, but these really hit the chocolate spot.  The recipe is simple to follow and a great one to do with the kids as they can play around with the dough and have fun hiding the sweets inside.

My children were up past bedtime last night making these as they were so much fun - and of course, they had to stay up just a little bit longer for the taste test.

The Rolo in the middle melts and creates a pocket of caramel, which oozes out of the centre of the cookie.  When they cool, the filling is chewy like toffee, but the lovely thing about these is you can put them in the microwave for a few seconds to warm up and melt again, without ruining the taste or texture.

In fact, the dough was so nice my eldest daughter took an uncooked ball with a Rolo inside in her lunch box today in place of her usual chocolate bar!

Rolo Bombs

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup caster sugar
1 cup brown sugar (any brown sugar will do)
2 eggs
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda (if you don't have this, omit and use self-raising flour instead of the plain)
Seeds from 1 vanilla pod (or 2 tsp vanilla extract - don't use essence - the quality of flavour is not there)
2½ cups plain flour
2 tubes Rolos

Cream the butter with the sugars, then mix everything else in, except the Rolos.  That bit comes later.  Once you've made the mix, it will look like crumbs and will be quite bitty and grainy, but once it comes together in your hands, the warmth releases the oils and it binds really well. 

When they're cooked, leave them on the baking sheet for at least five minutes as the centres are very gooey and will drop out the bottom otherwise.

Mix dough into a golf ball

Flatten, then place Rolo in centre

Roll back into a ball

Roll in extra sugar

Bake at Gas Mark 4 for 10 minutes




When cooled - EAT and ENJOY!!!!