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Choc Chip Cookies
Added on Mon Sep 17 2007
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The Story Behind The Recipe
Choc Chip Cookies
Alas, these are quite fattening but just a treat. I have made these cookies for years with my youngest son who likes to cook. Nowadays as a teenager he just eats the stuff, but there were times when he was younger that the mome
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The Basics
- Dish: Baking
- cuisine: Other
- Serves: 4
- Prep Time: 0hrs 5 mins
- Cooking Time: 0hrs 14 mins
Ingredients
Method
125 g unsalted butter (doesn't really matter if you only have salted)
Tiny bit to grease a baking tray
100g caster sugar
1 tsp of vanilla essence
200g plain flour (you can use self-raising, I have, it just makes them softer)
1 egg beaten (if you have run out of eggs, definitely use self-raising!)
Pinch of salt (see what I mean about the salt and the butter….)
100 grams of chocolate chips
Now you can ring the changes if you add some cocoa or even drinking chocolate as part of the 200g of flour and use white choc chips you can have nice double choc cookies.
Method
Heat your oven to 180C or Gas 4
Mix all the ingredients together except the choc chips - add those last. You should have a fairly firm dough mixture (which is delicious to eat if you are a Ben and Jerry's addict). We always make 6 very large cookies but you can make smaller ones. We don't bother with cookie cutters we just roll the dough into an oblong and cut into 6 pieces and pat them flat and put them on the greased baking tray.
If 6 large ones cook for between 12 and 15 minutes. If smaller cookies, cook for a shorter time. Don't be tempted to over cook, you really can't go too wrong and they tend to cook a bit longer whilst on the hot baking tray anyway.
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Whenever I make cookies, the dough spreads out to make one very large biscuit. Do you have any tips on getting them to stop spreading? I definitely want to try your recipe :)
Posted By Pippin on Fri Jul 4 2008
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The Story Behind The Recipe
Choc Chip Cookies
Alas, these are quite fattening but just a treat. I have made these cookies for years with my youngest son who likes to cook. Nowadays as a teenager he just eats the stuff, but there were times when he was younger that the moment I walked in the door after a long tiring day at work he would start getting all the ingredients out of the cupboard to make these delicious cookies.
I have encouraged him to weigh, measure and mix and put the oven on the right temperature and clear up (!). Learning to crack an egg was, er, interesting but he is always better than me at remembering to take the biscuits out of the oven, even now. Hmm.
There have been some very funny moments - one particular time was one of us had a fork in the mixting bowl and a terrific metallic cracking resounded around the kitchen: the food mixter had caught the fork and had completely mangled it. We were hysterical with laughter…... Malcolm in the Middle can teach us little about family life!
And then there were time when I have forgotten the egg, the sugar or to take them out of the oven…..
Posted By SueO on Thu Mar 27 2008
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