Chocolate Chip Cookies

I never knew it was so difficult to get a good recipe for chocolate chip cookies. I’ve tried 3, 4 recipes before this one and was not happy with the outcome. Every time I made it, Jose (my hubby dear) used to find something or the other wrong with it, mostly the texture and oh ya.. the cookie used to get burnt also :(  I had to scrape the bottom layer. I guess I haven’t tried any other dish this many times to get it right.

Though I bake cake often, cookies are still new to me. I came to the conclusion that cookies dont like me :( I even thought of  giving up the idea of baking cookies, but hey wait a min…

Anyways after seeing the recipe in Cafe Cakes book by Australian Women’s Weekly, I decided to try my luck again. The success of Family Chocolate Cake from one of their books, gave me the motivation  and I was not disappointed :) The texture was right and most importantly, it didn’t get burnt! Cookies do like me :)

This is the first cookie post in my blog  and am very happy to send this to Home Made Christmas Gifts event hosted by Happy Cook.  HC, hope you will like this small treat :)

HC, this is for you:

Here is the recipe: 

1. Butter – 125 gm, chopped (softened)
   
2. Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
3. Brown sugar – 1/3 cup (75 gm), firmly packed
   Caster sugar – 1/3 cup (75 gm)
4. Egg – 1, room temperature
   
5. Plain flour – 1 1/4 cups (185 gm)
6. Bicarbonate of soda – 1/2 tsp
7. Walnuts – 1/4 cup (30 gm), toasted and finely chopped (optional)
8. Dark choc chips – 1 cup (190 gm)

Preheat oven to 180 degree 10 minutes before baking. Beat butter, essence, sugars and egg in small bowl with electric mixer until smooth. Stir in sifted dry ingredients, nuts and choc chips. Drop level tablespoons of mixture about 5 cm apart on greased oven trays, press down lightly. Bake for 12 minutes or until browned lightly. Stand cookies 2 minutes before lifting onto wire racks to cool.

The above measurement yields around 25 cookies.

Check out these cookies baked by Gayathri. Thank you so much dear for all your kind words :)

Please find below the picture of Choc chip cookie, made by Ammu using this recipe. Thanks again dear :)

Btw, that naughty boy in the pic is my nephew Aditya, my Adiboy :). He was a model for this year’s calendar of The South Indian Bank.

Check out the Choc Chip Cookies made by Josphine based on the above recipe. Thank you dear :)

Notes: You can store this in an airtight container for upto 2 weeks.

Recipe source: Cafe Cakes by Australian Women’s Weekly

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