I like my chocolate chip cookies soft and chewy, how about you? I don’t like ones out of a packet, they’re dry and hard and really don’t have much flavour.
We just had a fairly quiet and awfully hot and humid weekend when we suddenly thought that we hadn’t done any baking for our channel – and we only had about 2 hours before we were heading out to Noosa’s End of Summer Festival by the river (and I can tell you I was looking forward to a river breeze and some nice cold wine!).
Unfortunately, Arely’s line up of recipes were all going to take too long to make when she suddenly suggested Chocolate Chip Cookies – perfect I said. I had a recipe that I had been wanting to try out which promised to be soft and chewy, and I had all the necessary ingredients. Although it was far too hot to be cooking so I cooled myself down with an iced water under the fan before we got started!!
I am happy to say that the cookie recipe turned out just as we had hoped, and although I made a half batch compared to the original recipe we still had plenty – 24 good sized cookies and 10 mini cookies. You probably know by now I don’t like to make larges batches of baking because I don’t want to eat too much of it! (Oh, and I have to add that my mum isn’t going to be impressed with me calling them Cookies! It’s Biscuits, Chocolate Chip Biscuits – or Bickies.)
The End of Summer Festival was also a hit, and the wines went down far too quickly.
SOFT CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
100g butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/4 cups plain flour
1/2 tsp bi-carb soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/4 cups plain flour
1/2 tsp bi-carb soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
METHOD
– Cream butter and sugar, add egg and vanilla and continue to mix until well incorporated.
– Add flour, soda and salt and mix until it forms a dough. You may need more flour than is stated.
– Mix in chocolate chips.
– Spoon or scope balls onto a liked cookie tray, remember to space out as they will spread during cooking.
– Bake at 180°c for 10-12 minutes and cool on a wire rack.
– Add flour, soda and salt and mix until it forms a dough. You may need more flour than is stated.
– Mix in chocolate chips.
– Spoon or scope balls onto a liked cookie tray, remember to space out as they will spread during cooking.
– Bake at 180°c for 10-12 minutes and cool on a wire rack.
Enjoy!