Every time we walk past Famous Amos, the waft of freshly baked cookies always make us stop for a second and just take it all in.
So one day I thought, okay, let's make cookies!!!
Ingredients are - sugar (white & brown), butter, all-purpose flour, salt, baking soda, vanilla essence, eggs and chocolate chips.
The original recipe I have goes this way
1 cup butter
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 eggs
1 cup chocolate chips
(1 cup here is about 240mL)
But I remembered that it made quite a big batch. Plus, I didn't want to make such a huge one and fail since I haven't made cookies in at least three years, so I halved everything!
First you combine the flour, baking soda and salt together through a sieve. This is to get rid of all unnecessary lumps. Then put it aside.
Next - the butter and sugar. I don't have a mixing bowl so I used a large plastic container instead :P Oh and I usually chop my butter into little cubes because it's much easier.
So one day I thought, okay, let's make cookies!!!
Ingredients are - sugar (white & brown), butter, all-purpose flour, salt, baking soda, vanilla essence, eggs and chocolate chips.
The original recipe I have goes this way
1 cup butter
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 eggs
1 cup chocolate chips
(1 cup here is about 240mL)
But I remembered that it made quite a big batch. Plus, I didn't want to make such a huge one and fail since I haven't made cookies in at least three years, so I halved everything!
First you combine the flour, baking soda and salt together through a sieve. This is to get rid of all unnecessary lumps. Then put it aside.
Next - the butter and sugar. I don't have a mixing bowl so I used a large plastic container instead :P Oh and I usually chop my butter into little cubes because it's much easier.
Cream it all together. It's really best to leave the butter out in room temperature for a while because then it's a lot easier to cream! Plus I don't own an electrical mixer so I just use a fork, sit in front of the telly and just slowly do it...
Then I added in the vanilla essence and the flour and mixed it well.
Be careful while mixing in the flour though, it does fly away so what I normally do is spoon in a bit, mix it up and add a bit more and mix it up again. You'll end up with a nice butter-floury lump like this.
Crack the egg(s) into a bowl and lightly beat it....
Then mix it in with the cookie dough.
I've tried quite a bit of choc chips back then but so far the Hershey's ones work the best for me. Plus they really taste fantastic!
Although the recipe calls for 1 cup, I say go with your gut instinct :) I poured in about 1/3 of the packet in.... which was just of this batch of dough.
Such yummy goodness!!! This is when you preheat your oven. I usually set it to about 220 C for about 10 mins before putting the cookies in.
Shape them into whatever sizes you want. Bake them at 190 C for 9-11 minutes or until they turn brown.
Oops! Hahaha turns out they were a tad too big and while they were baking, they expanded and got stuck! You might want to try slightly smaller sized cookie doughs :)
Last but not least, remember to let them cool on a wire rack before you eat or store them!!!Happy baking :)
xxx
Bunny
