Resurrecting my chocolate chip cookie recipe
No prizes for guessing what I will be doing today …
I realised the only place that record of the recipe I use to make chocolate chip cookies can be found is on the internet archive, so mainly for my own future reference I am resurrecting it here.
The original recipe can be found in the Good Housekeeping Guide but it has been altered a lot to my taste :) I went through a period at university–much to my houemates’ deligh– of trying out every recipe for chocolate chip cookies I could find, in the quest to find the perfect cookie.
Similar to cookies you might find at Bens Cookies these should be nice and squishy in the middle and not cooked much past golden, the custard powder adds that extra creamyness and is an essential ingredient!
For Easter I added yellow food colouring to the dough and made duckie shapes (using little choco-balls for eyes) and then iced them with yellow icing.
Ingredients
- 200g / 8oz Butter
- 200g / 8oz Plane Flour
- 100g / 4oz Caster sugar
- 50g / 2oz Custard powder
- 2 teaspoons (ish) of vanilla essence
- 150g chocolate, chopped into small chunks (I like to use ‘co-op milk chocolate’ or Galaxy)
Implements
- Mixing bowl
- Storing pot
- Baking sheet
- Cooling rack (if possible)
Oven
Preheated to 190*C
Method
- Sift all the ingredients (except the chocolate) into the mixing bowl
- Roll in the butter until you have a firm dough, add the vanilla essence
- Oil the baking sheet
- Add the chocolate and mix well
- Make into about 18 small balls, and place onto the baking sheet
- Put in the oven at 190*C for between 20 and 25 mins
- Take out and put on cooling rack, when they are cool enough to eat, enjoy :)
UPDATE I have also found that adding a little nutmeg and cinnamon makes these very tasty indeed.
I will definitely try making these :) I hate to cook unless it’s for a sugary good reason.
Frances Berriman - December 10th, 2007 at 2:14 pmYES! a lovely festive-food surprise as i tab through t’internet tabs. i’m off to the market today, so i’ll note these ingredient down. good one frances :) feedback on it’s way…
lewis litanzios - December 17th, 2007 at 9:59 amThank’s for the recipe, it was rather good and thanks for going on the quest of looking for the perfect cookie recipe, i’ve been doing it, but after a month i lost my taste for cookies….
a little hint: it’s plain flour, not plane flour…:P
Flour name....... - March 31st, 2008 at 3:38 pm