In the spirit of Christmas I made some delicious and moreish dark chocolate chip cookies for my family and office colleagues which went down a treat. I made the chocolate chips myself - tips on how to do this are in my handy hints at the end of the recipe.
Prep: 10 minutes | Bake: 15-20 minutes
You will need
250g Plain flour
1/2 teaspoon of Bicarbonate of Soda
200g butter, melted
200g soft dark brown sugar
50g caster sugar
1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
1 egg
1 egg yolk
200g of good quality dark chocolate
Let's get baking
1. Preheat oven to 170 C / Gas mark 3.
2. Grease Baking trays or line with parchment.
3. Sift together flour and bicarbonate of soda and set aside
4. In a medium bowl, cream together the melted butter, brown sugar and caster sugar until well blended. Stir in the chocolate chips by hand using a wooden spoon.
5. Drop cookie dough onto the pre - prepared baking trays with each cookie around 4 tablespoons of dough (for smaller cookies just one rounded tablespoon and adjust baking time as necessary) Do not flatten the dough and the cookies should be around 8 cm apart.
6. Bake for about 15-17 minutes or until the edges are lightly toasted. Cool on baking trays for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely. (The recipe was adapted from allrecipes.co.uk)
The batch makes about 18 cookies - I made two batches to make sure there was enough for everyone!
Handy Hint - I'm not a fan of pre prepared chocolate chips as I think they are too small. What I tend to do is get a full bar of chocolate tie it in a food bag then attack it with a rolling pin. As well as releasing tension or stress it's a good way to get some decent sized cookie chips. ;-)
Handy Hint - You may not want to use brown sugar and I am sure caster sugar would work just as well. You may also want to adjust the amount of sugar depending on how sweet you want your cookies to be.
