Cooking Basics - Chocolate Cookies

How to make chocolate cookies

These cookies take a little time and effort, but make a tasty snack, and will make you popular with your housemates!

Taste: Simplicity: Cost:

Ingredients

• 120g butter
• 110g caster sugar
• 160g brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 170g plain flour
• 60g cocoa powder
• 1/2 tablespoon bicarbonate of soda
• Any chocolate you'd like to add (e.g. M&Ms)

Method

1. Whip 120g of butter with a hand mixer until it is soft.

2. Add both types of sugar to the butter and mix.
3. Add the egg and vanilla to the sugar and butter mix and combine until it becomes a smooth paste.
4. Add the flour, cocoa powder and bicarbonate of soda. If you are using chocolate chips or candies, add them now (or you can save them to top the cookies). Mix all the ingredients until a dough is formed.
5. Portion out the dough into 12 equal dough balls on a tray lined with greaseproof paper. If you haven't added your chocolate chips to the cookie dough balls, top them with them now.
6. Put the tray of cookie dough balls in the fridge for at least 1 hour.
7. Preheat your oven to 180c.
8. After at least 1 hour in the fridge, bake the cookie in your preheated oven for 10-12 minutes.
9. Take the cookies out of the oven and leave them to cool and firm up.
10. Enjoy!