Choc Chip Cookies
Over a year ago
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Ingredients
- 125 g butter (unsalted)
- 100g caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 200g plain flour
- 1 egg beaten
- Pinch salt
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Description
I have made these Choc Chip Cookies for years with my youngest son who likes to cook. Nowadays as a teenager he just eats the stuff!
Method
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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.
Chef's Tips
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 to get a nice double choc cookie.
If you use salted butter don't use the pinch of salt as the cookies will be too salty.
You can use self-raising, I have, it just makes the cookies a little softer and if you have run out of eggs then you definitely need to use self-raising flour.
Use a tiny bit of butter to grease a baking tray as it stops the cookies from sticking.
I made these today with plain flour and they were fantastic. Will definately be making these again!
Goodness, I am as bad at answering email as I am letters. Re cookies spreading... Well, lots of people, especially children love large cookies. But if you want to make them small, either use a cookie cutter (you may need to make the mixture marginally stiffer) or alternative when the spread out cookies are out of the oven and cooling cut them with cookie cutters then and discard (eat) the remains. Final alternative is to pick smaller bits of dough. Can't think of anything else. Pam
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 :)
Made these cookies today and used S.R. flour - will certainly be using the recipe again and again. Delicious.