Food In Fiction #3 - Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe

1 Preheat the oven to 200c/gas mark 6.

Sift the flour and baking powder in a bowl. Rub in the butter, add the sugar, bicarb, syrup and nutella.

Roll into walnut-sized balls and place on a greased baking tray, pressing down the centre of each ball with your thumb.

Bake for about 10 minutes. Keep an eye on them, as you can see mine are a little brown at the edges.notes: Issy (the main character in the book) says that while these are baking you should eat 4 tsp of nutella, then eat the entire tray of cookies while reading a gossip magazine and wearing pyjamas.