Hello!
Only a slight lapse in time since my previous post… there may well be a slight deluge of recipes to come your way as a result! First up is my first sweet recipe – chocolate chip cookies.
Ingredients
Chopped chocolate
Combined ingredients
Makes around 18 cookies (depending on size!) • 40 minutes • Super easy!
Ingredients:
- 7oz golden caster sugar
- 7oz softened butter
- 8oz plain flour
- 1tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 1½tsp vanilla essence
- 150g milk chocolate, chopped (higher quality chocolate = yummier cookies, recommend Lindt)
Method:
- Mix the dry ingredients (sugar, flour, salt, bicarb) in a bowl, along with the butter. The mixture should form breadcrumbs.
- Mix in the chocolate chips.
- Next, add the vanilla essence to the beaten egg. Pour this mixture in with the breadcrumbs, gradually. The mixture should form a slightly sticky dough.
- Now divide the dough up – take a tablespoon and put a spoonful in a small ball on a well greased baking tray. Leave plenty of room between the balls – these cookies spread a lot!
- Bake in the oven until golden brown; this should take 10-12mins.
- Remove from the oven and leave to cool. If they are still slightly squishy when you take them out, this is okay as it will give you a gooier cookie!
It’s as simple as that!
I have made several variations of these cookies, in an aim to make them spread less. To follow are some of my top tips:
- Use half salted butter, and half margarine, and use just 6oz of sugar – this makes them slightly less greasy, and spread less.
- When putting balls of dough on the baking tray, don’t flatten them down! This means they stay slightly thicker, gooier, and there is less spread.
Costs: from Tesco, £9.00 – this is definitely not the true cost of a batch of cookies. You could probably make 3 batches at least from the raw bought ingredients, as they last longer! I’d estimate it would be £3.00 MAXIMUM for a batch, if that
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