Need a revision break? These cookies are so easy they'll be out of the oven in time for your next slog...

To make one batch of cookies, you will need:

• 100g of self-raising flour
• 75g of butter/margarine
• 75g of caster sugar

These 3 ingredients will make plain cookies, but you can add any flavouring you like really. 

Try these:

• 50g (or less) of cocoa powder
• Chocolate chips (or just a chopped up bar)
• Raisins
• 2 teaspoons (or less) of dried cinnamon/ ginger
• 50g (or less) of desiccated coconut
• Smarties
• Chopped glacé cherries
• Anything else you fancy!

To make the cookies, it's simple:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees (160 if using fan oven) and line a baking tray with baking parchment or grease it using a paper towel and a little bit of butter.
2. Mix the sugar, butter and flavourings in a mixing bowl (make sure the butter is quite soft, otherwise it won’t mix very well- maybe stick it in the microwave for 10-20 seconds).
3. Once the sugar and butter are combined (i.e. you have ‘creamed’ them), sieve the flour into the bowl too.  Mix until you have a dough.
4. Divide your cookie dough evenly into blobs- you can make them whatever size you’d like, but if they’re tiny then they might burn, and if they’re huge then they’ll probably need a bit longer in the oven.
5. Place them on the baking tray and press down lightly with your fingers so that they’re not completely round.
6. Bake the cookies in the oven for 10-15 minutes.  When you take them out they will probably look uncooked, but if you leave them on the tray for about 5 minutes then they will harden up a bit.  If you prefer crunchy cookies, you might want to bake them for a little bit longer.
7. Put the cookies on a cooling rack.  Or, just throw them on a plate and stick the kettle on!

Now, get back to that revision!!

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