Chocolate Chip cookies

 

Chocolate Chip cookies 

🕘Prep:15 mins

Cook:10 mins

🍳Easy

🍽Makes 30

An easy chocolate chip cookie recipe for soft biscuits with a squidgy middle that will impress family and friends. Make plenty as they're sure to be a hit

Ingredients

150g salted butter, softened

80g light brown muscovado sugar

80g granulated sugar

2 tsp vanilla extract

1 large egg

225g plain flour

½ tsp bicarbonate of soda

¼ tsp salt

200g plain chocolate chips or chunks

Method

STEP 1

Heat the oven to 190C/fan170C/gas 5 and line two baking sheets with non-stick baking paper.

 

STEP 2

Put 150g softened salted butter, 80g light brown muscovado sugar and 80g granulated sugar into a bowl and beat until creamy.

 

STEP 3

Beat in 2 tsp vanilla extract and 1 large egg.

 

STEP 4

Sift 225g plain flour, ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda and ¼ tsp salt into the bowl and mix it in with a wooden spoon.

 

STEP 5

Add 200g plain chocolate chips or chunks and stir well.

 

STEP 6

Use a teaspoon to 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 mins to set and then lift onto a cooling rack.

By Valerie  Barrett