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Chocolate Chip Cookies

Added on Mon Sep 17 2007

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The Story Behind The Recipe

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 do Read More

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The Basics

• Dish: Baking
• cuisine: Other
• Serves: 4
• Prep Time: 0hrs 5 mins
• Cooking Time: 0hrs 14 mins

Ingredients

Method

Choc Chip Cookies:

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.