Chocolate & Chip Cookies
Cookies have always been my speiciality! Whilst I often experiment with cakes, pastries and breads, everyone knows me for my cookies. This cookie recipe is an adaptation of my "famous" cookie pizzas giving someone the joy of multiple flavours in a single cookie. The recipe originally came about when my mum told me we needed "simple" chocolate chip cookies for our friends 4th birthday party. I (sort of) followed her instructions and created these chocolate & chip cookies which went down a treat with everyone at the party! I have since experimented with a lot of flavour combinations for this recipe such as peanut butter and chocolate and even lemon and lime however have found that chocolate and chip work best. This recipe is so simple yet so effective and looks and tastes insane. I hope you enjoy baking these and creating new combinations with it as much as I always do!
Here is my recipe for Chocolate & Chip Cookies:
Ingredients: (Makes 16)
- 60g Butter, softened
- 115g Brown Sugar
- 45g Caster Sugar
- 55ml Olive Oil
- 1/2tbs Almond/Vanilla Extract
- 1 Egg
- 200g Plain Flour
- 20g Cornflour
- 1/2tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2tsp Baking Powder
- 40g Milk Chocolate Chips
- 15g Hot Chocolate Powder (you can use cocoa powder but my family prefer the sweet taste of hot chocolate powder)
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 175’c, gas mark 4
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth
- Add the oil and almond extract and continue to mix
- Add the flour, baking powder and soda and stir until a dough forms
- Refrigerate for at least an hour
- Separate the dough in half and add the cocoa powder to 1 half and the chocolate chips to the other
- Divide each half into 16 even pieces then combine with a piece from the other half
- Roll each clump into a ball and place on baking trays 2cm apart from each other
- Bake for 10 minutes
- Enjoy!!
