Cookies are my favourite. The recipes are simple, and easy to adapt to add your favourite ingredients. They make people happy and are the perfect accompaniment for a cup of tea. You make big ones, small ones, short ones, chewy ones, fat ones, thin ones, crunchy ones and crumbly ones. Cookies filled with chocolate, fruit or nuts or all three! Need I say more?! For my birthday this month, my friends bought me a cute set of cookie bags and labels from talking tables and in amongst all the brown paper goodness was a 'big round chewy choc chip cookies' recipe, which I just had to share on my blog.
The original recipe makes 36 large cookies, and although I'm sure 36 cookies would have no trouble getting eaten, I thought it was a slightly obscene amount to make in one go for a household of 5 adults, especially after seeing the size of them when baked. So I decided to halve everything on the ingredients list but still follow the exact method, so all credit goes to talking tables for their heavenly cookies to-die-for!
To make your own, you will need:
250g Plain flour
1/2 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
1/2 tsp Salt
170g Unsalted butter
200g Dark brown sugar
100g Caster sugar
1 tbsp Vanilla
1 Egg
1 Egg yolk
300g Milk chocolate chips
1. Preheat the oven to 170c/ gas mark 3. Grease baking trays and line with baking parchments.
2. Sift together the flour, bicarb and salt and set to one side.
3. In a medium bowl, cream together the melted butter, brown sugar and caster sugar until well blended. Beat in the vanilla, egg and egg yolk until light and creamy. Mix in the sifted ingredients until just blended. Stir in the chocolate chips using a wooden spoon.
4. Drop the cookie dough onto the prepared baking trays - I used one table spoon of mixture for each cookie and rolled into a ball - do not flatten the dough. Cookies should be roughly 8cm apart.
5. Bake for 15 to 17 minutes in the preheated oven or until the edges are lightly toasted. Remove from oven and leave to cool on the baking trays for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
This recipe is one of the best I've used for making chocolate chip cookies. The cookies look just as you'd get them from the bakery and taste at their best still warm from the oven. They are chewy and incredibly chocolatey and perfect as a kind of cookie dough dessert by warming a cookie in the microwave for a minute or so and serving with a big blob of vanilla ice-cream, mmm...
Have a go! And of course, please share your favourite cookie recipes below.
Kate x
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