Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies
Recipe by Valerie Barrett
For this recipe you will need the following:
Equipment:
- Oven
- Mixing bowl
- Whisk
- Kitchen scale
- Teaspoon
- Wooden (or plastic) stirring spoon
- Baking trays
- cooling rack
Ingredients:
- 150g salted butter, softened
- 80g light grown muscovado sugar
- 80g granulated sugar
- 2tsp vinilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 225g plain flower
- 1/2tsp bicarbonate soda
- 1/4tsp salt
- 200g plain chocolate chips/chunks
- Sifter
Method:
Step 1
Heat a conventional oven to 190C or a fanforced oven to 170C and line two baking trays with non-stick baking paper.
Step 2
Beat the butter, muscovado sugar and granulated sugar in a bowl until creamy
Step 3
Beat in the vanilla and egg
Step 4
Sift in the flour, bicarbonate soda and salt mix in until homogeneous.
Step 5
Add the choocolate and stir well
Step 6
Make small scoops of the mixture, spacing them well apart on the baking trays. This mixture should make about 30 cookies.
Step 7
Bake for 8–10 mins until they are light brown on the edges and still slightly soft in the centre if you press them.
Step 8
Leave on the tray for a couple of minutes to set and then lift onto a cooling rack.
Additional notes
- If you’ve frozen the biscuits, take them out and arrange them on a lined baking sheet. Once defrosted, pop them in a medium oven 190C/170 fan and heat for 2-3 mins to crisp up. Don’t leave them too long or they’ll dry out.
- You can keep the uncooked dough in a sealed container in the fridge for up to two weeks. Simply take some out, dollop on a lined baking tray and allow to come up to room temperature for 5 mins before baking.