Jaffa Cookies - a recipe for three people

• Make basic biscuit mixture. Helpful, aren't I? But honestly, your own preferred recipe will probably work. For the record, here's the one in my school cookery book, which is what we used:
  125g butter
  1/2 cup caster sugar (I'm lazy and use normal sugar)
  1&3/4 cups self-raising flour
  1 egg
  vanilla
  1. Beat butter and sugar to a cream. (NB: get Dee - or reasonable facsimile thereof to spank it if it gets cranky)
  2. Add the egg and beat well. Add vanilla.
  3. Gradually add sifted flour. (NB: we found there was too much flour, but that might just be the weird kitchen demons and/or the measuring cup.)
  4. Mix into a stiff paste.
  5. Take small pieces of mixture and roll into balls. (NB: Jen prefers the "more is more" approach to this step.)
  6. Place balls on greased trays. Press out lightly with a floured fork.
  7. Bake in a moderate oven until golden brown. (NB: about ten minutes or so, unless Dee sits in front of the oven to watch, in which case, contrary to scientific possibility, they will bake infinitely.)
  
  
• Where was I? Oh yeah.
  
• Meanwhile, Operation Jaffa Destruction gets underway. Get your manically insane sidekick to crush the Jaffas. Viscerate recommends for the purpose a plastic bag for holding the flying Jaffa fragments, a chopping board for the hard place, a rolling pin for the rock, and sunglasses for safety and random cool.
  
• At about step three and a half of the above recipe, add the pulverised Jaffas. Level of squishedness is really up to your tastes and the enthusiasm of Operation Jaffa Destruction team.
  
• Viscerate recommends baking the cookies in two batches, thus spreading the joy of cookies over as long a period as possible. This recommendation is possibly brought to you by the fact that there's only one tray in this household.
  
• At the end of baking, get Dee to get the tray out of the oven, because it's really hard.
  
• Eat cookies. Enjoy. (This isn't that hard.)