So on Wednesday, I was feeling a little creative and decided that I was
going to put my baking hat on and go a little nuts. I’m not a baker, and so by nuts, I mean I whipped
up a batch of chocolate chip cookies. I followed
a recipe on the BBC Good Food website listed below, only I doubled the
recipe. I wanted to make big, chunky
cookies, and so doubling the recipe meant that I would still get the same amount
of cookies as the standard batch, just bigger!
You will need:
300g salted butter (soften before use for an easier mix)
160g brown sugar
160g granulated or caster sugar
Vanilla extract (to your preference)
2 large eggs
450g plain flour
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
1/2tsp salt
400g chocolate chips
The above ingredients are for the double batch that I made, for a standard
batch, simply half the amount per item.
To start, you should preheat the oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. After this, I then lined four (that’s right,
I had four trays of cookies) with a non-stick greased baking paper to stop them
from sticking to the trays.
Next, you mix the butter and sugars into a bowl, and beat them until thick
and creamy. Once this was done, I then
added in the vanilla (which I’m not going to lie, I added about half a 90ml
bottle to the mixture), and slowly poured in the whisked eggs. The toughest part was sieving in the flour, bicarbonate
of soda and the salt to the mixture and mixing it all together until it came to
the cookie dough. The mixture was so
tough that I actually managed to snap a wooden spoon, how many of you can say
you’ve done that whilst making cookies?!
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| RIP |
Finally, you add in the chocolate chips and stir them in so that they
are mixed all the way through. I used two
bags of milk chocolate chips on Wednesday when I made them, and today used
three bags, one milk, one white and one dark.
I will be following today’s footsteps forever more, just so you are all
aware.
Finally, you’re ready to scoop them out onto your trays and pop them in
the oven. I placed large round blobs of
the mixer on the trays, I managed approx. 7 cookies per tray. Because they were larger, the cookies did
take a lot longer to cook (today about 20-25 minutes) – but it is totally worth
the extra time!
Once cooked, leave them for about 5-10 minutes and tada! You’ve got yourself a tasty, and very
calorific snack… enjoy!
Please note, that this recipe was sourced from BBC Good Food, I simply altered the recipe to my own preference :)
What’s your favourite dessert to bake?
Until the next one,
Lauren x
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