Pesach Chocolate Chip Cookies

Please Remember: Kitchens are dangerous places full of sharp implements and high temperatures. You should always have an adult with you when you are cooking. Do not try to make Pesach Chocolate Chip Cookies without the full permission and close supervision of an adult (preferably with one of your parents). Always take care around sharp knives and hot liquids. Concentrate on what you are doing and have fun!

During Pesach, we all have to do without the chametz we enjoy eating all year round such as bread, Marmite, fish-fingers ... and chocolate chip cookies. If you make this recipe, however, you can have chocolate chip cookies during Pesach! Because it uses matzah meal and matzah pieces, the mixture is very crumbly. You will have to be patient with it when you are putting the cookies on the baking tray to cook. The effort is certainly worth it, because these Pesach Chocolate Chip Cookies really are wonderful ... especially during Pesach! Enjoy making and eating them!!

Ingredients:

• 2 standard-sized matzot (matzot produced by 'Rakusens' and 'Manischewitz' are the perfect size)
• 1 cup matzah meal
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup Kosher-for-Pesach chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup chopped (nibbed) almonds
• 1/3 cup sunflower oil
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 eggs

• Carefully turn the cooker on to a medium heat to warm up.

• Break the sheets of matzot up into small, bite-size pieces. The pieces of matzah need to be no larger than a finger-nail each. Put the matzah pieces into a large bowl.

• Measure matzah meal, sugar, chocolate chips and almonds out. It is important to be accurate.

• Crack the eggs, check that they are fresh and have no blood in them.

• Put the eggs into the jug with the oil and vanilla extract. Beat with a fork to mix.

• Pour the sunflower oil, vanilla extract and egg mixture into the bowl with matzah pieces and matzah meal mix.

• With fork, stir the wet and dry ingredients together so that everything is mixed together. You should have a moist, sticky, crumbly dough.

• Drop spoonfuls of Pesach Chocolate Chip Cookie dough onto a lined or greased baking tray.

• Repeat this until all your Pesach Chocolate Chip Cookie dough is used up.

• Carefully use your fingers to make neat-ish mounds out of the dough and to flatten gently. If any chocolate chips fall out of the dough, pile them up on top of the cookies for extra-chocolaty cookies!

• Cook Pesach Chocolate Chip Cookies in a cooker for fifteen to twenty minutes. They should be golden on the top and light brown round the edges.

• Carefully transfer cooked Pesach Chocolate Chip Cookies to a cooling rack to cool.

• When all the Pesach Chocolate Chip Cookies are cooked, turn the cooker off.

• Serve Pesach Chocolate Chip Cookies at your Seders or at any time during Chol Ha'Moed. Enjoy eating them as you remember how G-d rescued your ancestors from slavery in ancient Egypt!

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