Somehow or other, trips to the supermarket seem to end up in me buying yet another bag of choc chips - and well, it's usually the dark choc chips and at last count, I seem to have at least 3 packets sitting in the pantry. Then again, I could say that about the blocks of butter, the flour, and the caster sugar. And let's not forget the cookbooks, the food magazines - I'm sure you get the gist of it.
Whilst I had Bill Granger's 'Sydney Food' sitting around on my table, I got around to making his recipe for 'Chocolate Chip Cookies'. Quoting Bill, these are simply 'irresistible eaten fresh and still warm from the oven' - the cookies maintain a soft chewy centre with nice external crunch to them.
Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Place 125g softened butter and 1 1/4 cups brown sugar in a bowl and beat until light and creamy. Add 1 tsp vanilla essence and 1 lightly beaten egg and stir to combine. Stir in 1 1/2 cups sifted flour, 1/2 tsp baking powder and a pinch of salt until combined. Fold through 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips.
Place spoonfuls of cookie mixture on a lined baking tray, allowing room for spreading. Here I used a fork to squash them down slightly (also to give it a nice pattern on top).
Cook for 15-20 minutes until they turn a nice golden brown.
Allow to cool on the tray for 5 minutes.
Place on a wire rack to cool further.
Recipe says it should make 16 cookies, I made at least 32. To be honest, I think I could just empty the pantry of chocolate chips and bake more of these cookies. They were delicious! I gave these away for Chinese New Year (so every family got a little bag of cookies). With the warm weather, the chocolate chips did melt a little which was a bit of a shame but otherwise I can't really find a fault with this recipe!
9 comments:
Aww you're too sweet, sharing your cookies! I would've totally hid them under the covers so no one would know..until they see the trail of crumbs. :)
ha, you know, this sounds like me. i'm always picking up another pack of something for baking, not really taking into account what i've already got in the house. then i end up with 3 packs of white chocolate chips and no idea what to do with them. i'm not complaining though. i always figure something out.
Hehe I'm the same panda! I hear a disorder called fear of running out of chocolate :P These look fantastic! :D
Considering you made so many, maybe you should consider selling these cookies; they look good enough for a 'commercial enterprise'!
You can't go wrong with cookies, yumyum.
I alway use cookies and cakes as a gift idea when I'm not sure what to get someone :P
vickys - haha! well the thing is, i love to bake and unfortunately there's only so much i can eat. giving it away means i can try more recipes and also get some feedback at the same time :)
justin - the thing with me is that i knowingly keep restocking on all my baking ingredients; my pantry is constantly chocabloc! but so true, i'll always find a way to use it all up :)
lorraine - hahaha...i would definitely have that disorder! i'm like that at work too, my drawer is constantly stocked with chocolate.
belle - another friend mentioned that too. one day, i'll get around to setting up my own baking business :)
kristy - it's great giving away baked goods as gifts. only thing is that i'm so fussy with what i give away, i need to triple test things to make sure they're spot on before i give them away
Not a lot of effort required, yet such yummy results! =)
Your cookies sound delicious! thanks for sharing :)
mademoiselle delicieuse - that's just the way i like to cook!
karine - do try out the recipe and let me know how you go :)
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