Mouth watering Chocolate Chip Cookies straight from the oven, crisp on the outside, soft and warm on the inside with the chocolate chips still smooth and melted; this is chocolate chip cookie perfection that anyone can enjoy.
The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
This is one of the best chocolate chip and easiest cookie recipe available with the cookies coming out crisp at the edges and soft in the middle- just perfection for parties, after school treats or sumptuous with a cup of hot chocolate, coffee or tea.
Heathier Cookies
To create a cookie, which is a little bit “healthier”, substitute dried fruit, raisins, dried apricots or cranberries etc. for the chocolate chips. These additions make this one of the most versatile cookie recipes available.
Chocolate Quality
The quality of Chocolate Chip Cookies really comes from the type of chocolate used. The chocolate chips available as “buds” or ready melt pieces are made from poor quality chocolate. They are cheap, but the resulting chocolate chip cookies are not quite as nice as they would be with better quality chocolate. Try roughly breaking up a bar of your favourite good quality chocolate and using this instead or for a luxurious cookie try using indulgent Swiss, Belgian or other European chocolate for an extra special treat.
Ingredients Needed For Making Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 cup butter
½ cup white sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
½ teaspoon baking soda
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
2 ½ cups of plain flour
1 cup chocolate chips
1 ½ cups chopped walnuts, pecans or hazelnuts (optional).
Method For Making Chocolate Chip Cookies
Preheat the oven to 360F / 180C
- In a large mixing bowl beat the butter with an electric beater on medium to high speed for 30 seconds.
- Add the white sugar, brown sugar and baking soda.
- Beat mixture until combined, scraping the sides occasionally.
- Beat in the eggs and vanilla until combined.
- Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer.
- Stir in the remaining flour.
- Stir in the chocolate chips, dried fruit or nuts.
- Drop dough by rounded teaspoons 4cm apart on to an ungreased cookie tray.
- Put the cookies into the oven for 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are lightly browned.
Transfer cookies on to a wire rack to cool.
It is very hard to wait for these delicious cookies to cool. Sample one while they are still warm from the oven and it is likely there will be none left to store for later. Making a double batch might circumvent the problem, but with a family hovering to eat these delicious chocolate chip cookies it would be no surprise if they disappear very quickly.
Store cold cookies in an airtight jar or tin. They will stay good for 3-4 days.
Philippa Rowlands - Philippa Rowlands, writer for the Australia, New Zealand and Oceania travel section of Suite 101 is a professional freelance writer, ...
