Ladies, gentlemen and everyone in between it’s official, COVID has ruined everyone’s plans to have the best 2021 ever!! Coming up to three months in lockdown and a whole term of online learning has taught two very valuable lessons. First and foremost, I NEED my friends, so that I can hug them and give all my love to them. And finally I have the weirdest methods of procrastination. I have basically become a 1960’s stay at home mum. My house is now spotless, quite literally not a speck of dust has been seen in my house for the past 3 weeks. And I have become an incredible baker, which in turn has caused me to gain A LOT of COVID weight. Anyway, without further ado, I present to you my favourite cookie recipe ever.
Ingredients (for 12 cookies)
½ cup granulated sugar (100 g)
¾ cup brown sugar (165 g), packed
1 teaspoon salt
½ cup unsalted butter (115 g), melted
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour (155 g)
½ teaspoon baking soda
220g chocolate chips
Preparation
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a baking sheet with baking paper.
In a large bowl, whisk together the sugars, salt, and butter until a paste forms with no lumps.
Whisk in the egg and vanilla, beating until light ribbons fall off the whisk and remain for a short while before falling back into the mixture.
Sift in the flour and baking soda, then fold the mixture with a spatula (Be careful not to over-mix, which would cause the gluten in the flour to toughen resulting in cakier cookies).
Fold in the chocolate chunks, then chill the dough for at least 30 minutes. For a more intense toffee-like flavour and deeper colour, chill the dough overnight. The longer the dough rests, the more complex its flavour will be.
Scoop the dough with an ice-cream scoop (or 2 spoons if you don’t have an ice-cream scoop) onto the baking sheet, leaving at least 10 cm of space between cookies and 5 cm of space from the edges of the pan so that the cookies can spread evenly.
Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until the edges have started to brown lightly.
Cool completely before serving.
Enjoy!
- martina
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