Preheat the oven to gas mark 5/ 190c and grease the doughnut moulds.
Add the unsalted butter and caster sugar to a bowl and beat until creamy. You will want to cream these together until fully in-cooperated, you don't want to cream them until light and fluffy!
Add in the plain flour, cornflour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, salt and chocolate and mix. Your mixture will be dry, this is where the egg brings it together!
Add in your eggs, golden syrup and vanilla and mix until a cookie dough has formed! Your dough should be coming together in clumps but still "shaggy" and start coming away from the bowl!
Weigh the cookies out into eight cookie dough balls, they're about 100g each!
Press the cookie dough into the doughnut mould. I get my cookie dough, slightly roll it into a sausage and press into the mould.
Place the moulds onto a baking tray. This makes it easier to get in and out of the oven!
Bake the cookienuts in the oven for 12-14 minutes and then cool for 30 minutes. Once cool remove from the moulds.
Melt the milk chocolate in a microwaveable bowl. Dunk half of the cookienuts into the milk chocolate and sprinkle with crushed flakes. Once decorated place in the fridge to set.
Once chilled add 3 mini eggs onto each cookienut!
Finally, eat those cut cookienut nests!
