Chocolate Chip Cookies… one of the first cookies I baked
“A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand”…Better still, with a glass of chilled milk!!
When I first began baking at home, one of the things I tried were chocolate chip cookies. The results were so, so inspiring….inspiring enough to make me head off to the kitchen whenever I had time on hand!!! Since then, I’ve tried many recipes from many books and websites…and have finally settled on this particular one which I’ve evolved over time, with some wholewheat flour included. Now, I never ever buy cookies from the store , I always bake them at home, and with butter. There aint no substitute for butter…eat half instead of a whole cookie, but make sure its butter!!! You can actually taste the difference…
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- Butter – 1/2 cup; or 100gms at room temp.
- Brown Sugar – 1/3 cup
- White Sugar – 1/3 cup
- Egg – 1
- Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
- Flour – 1 1/4 cup
- baking soda – 1/2 tsp
- Salt – 1 /8 pinch
- Walnuts – 1/2 cup chopped
- Chocolate chips – 1/2 cup
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 190degC.
- Grease 2 baking trays.
- Sift flour + soda bicarbonate + salt 3 times. Keep aside.
- Beat butter + sugars + essence + egg in a bowl.
- Fold in dry ingredients including walnuts and chocolate chips.
- Drop teaspoonfuls onto the baking tray, allowing room for spreading…maximum 12 to a tray
- Press down slightly, mark with a fork, and add sprinkles if desired
- Bake approximately 12-15 minutes until light brown.
- Leave for 2 mins on the tray, and then remove to rack to cool.
- Makes approximately 2 dozen cookies
- Note: For chewy cookies bake approx. 12 mins till light brown.
- For crisper cookies, bake longer till darker in colour, but keep an eye so they don’t brown too quickly.
- A handful of raisins can be added if desired.
Deeba @ PAB
About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.
One Comment
pisces
hi im from kerala and im baking choc chip cookies the toll house style for my special someone on his birthday(dec 31st!!)..u have no idea how relieved it makes me feel to find a tried and tested recipe of a fellow baker of my own nationality..anyways i read somewhere that adding sour cream to the dough makes cookies chewier and a cup of vanilla pudding mix(vanilla custard mix will do)makes it softer..a tea spoon of cinnamon is supposed to give the cookies a distinct flavour..and thank you for mentioning that u use wholewheat flour..i was about to use maida