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I’m a huge lover of cookies, but I’ve struggled to get that soft chewy American style
cookie…well until now!
I'm now in love with this recipe, it has worked every time and is so easy.
I’ve gone a bit cookie crazy now and been experimenting with loads
of different flavours. Below is the choc chip recipe further down are a few of the flavours I’ve experimented with.
Ingredients
Makes 15
120g salted butter,
at room temperature75g light brown sugar
75g granulated sugar (use caster sugar)
½ tsp vanilla extract
1 egg
240g plain flour
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
200g choc chips
1. Beat together the butter and sugars until fluffy – I use my lovely new
Kenwood Kmix for this which was a bday present and I’m in love with it! Add the
vanilla extract, then the egg, and beat in well (I add a spoonful of flour here
as well to stop curdling).
2. Add the flour
and bicarbonate of soda, then mix until combined to a dough. The mixture will
be pretty solid making it hard to mix – that’s why using a stand mixer really
helps – unless you want a great bingo wing workout!
3. Then add you
choc chips (or other choice).
4. Preheat the oven
to 180C. Line two baking trays with greaseproof paper. Shape mix into golf-ball
sized balls and place on baking tray, spacing them well apart. Bake for about 13-15
minutes, until golden, but not browned.
5. ENJOY!
So my experiments -
I replaced the choc
chips with a variety of different flavours.
Choc orange = 150g
good quality dark orange chocolate chopped up (I used Sainsbury’s Swiss Fair-trade)
and 30-50g of sugared orange segments again chopped up.
M&Ms – 200g of
M&Ms!
For Easter I’ll be
trying white choc and raspberry! Have you got any other cookie flavour ideas?
