Nothing beats a big chewy chunky chocolate chip cookie. I get an immediate boost of happiness after biting into a wonderfully soft cookie. This recipe is probably my favourite, I found it some time ago on allrecipes.com and have adapted it according to my own tastes. It's simple and quick to bake, good when you get those late night cookie cravings, as i so often do and so so incredibly tasty.
Mmm mm mm i'm going to have myself some now!
Chunky chocolate chip cookies
Makes about 24 cookies,
- although i still had leftover dough, which i mixed with vanilla ice cream to make a quick and easy choc chip cookie dough ice cream =)
(I figured salmonella was worth the risk for such yummy-ness.)
2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
150g Unsalted butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 egg
1 1/2 cup of chopped up chocolate chips (i used a mixture of both semisweet and dark chocolate)
- Preheat oven to 160 degrees C. Grease baking sheets or line with parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl or using an electric mixer, cream together the butter, brown sugar and white sugar, beat in the vanilla, and egg until light and creamy. Add flour, baking powder and baking soda until well blended.
- Stir in the chocolate chips by hand using a wooden spoon. Drop cookie dough spoonfuls at a time onto the prepared baking sheets (you can use an ice cream scoop to get perfectly round and even shapes) Cookies should be about 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 15 to 17 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the edges are lightly toasted. Cool on baking sheets for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
