Today I made Choc Chip Cookies.
My partner had made some a while back which were amazing. We were not sure which recipe he used but he knew it was simple.
My partner had this recipe in a very old book from 'Lake Charm Centenary Cookbook 1879 -1979' all typed up with an old fashioned type writer font and held together with staples.
It was the simplest recipe we could find so I gave it a go.
They are called in the book 'Choc Bit Biscuits by Mimi Pasco'.
It's all in ounces and pounds so you'll have to convert it unless your lucky enough to have a scale that has ounces as well, like I have.
I made mine a little different because I am lazy!!
First I used 5 ounces of butter chopped. The recipe said to use 4. I had 5 ounce and didn't want to leave one ounce in the fridge so though I may as well use it and it also says to melt it. I just chopped it up and put in in the Kenwood mixer.
Next add the sugar- 6 ounces. The recipe says use caster sugar, I used soft brown sugar.
Next add one egg and mix.
Add 8 ounces of SR flour. I used 6 ounces of SR flour and 3 of plain flour. I would stick to just SR flour. They might have been even more chewy and thick if I had of stuck to the recipe.
Then lastly add a whole packet of choc chips.
Mine was the standard 250g milk chocolate chips and I always use good quality chocolate.
The recipe just says to cook at a moderate temp. It said nothing about how long to cook or how big to make them.
I used extra large teaspoons full of mix and sqwashed them just a bit with my knuckles. As it turns out I didn't need too as they go flat as you can see below. Leave plenty of room on the tray for them to spread out.
Also I made 21 large cookies. May have been 22 if I could have stopped eating the raw mix!!
I cooked mine at 180 degrees Celsius for about 12 minutes.
This was just long enough for them to just brown and some to look cooked on the edges but as if they needed longer in the centre.
But they turned out pretty good.
This is after they had cooled for about 45 minutes.
I just had to show underneith the cookies so you could see how many choc bit were in each one! Yum!
I want another!
