Hello food lovers,
Following Fabiana's wonderful, exotic food stories brought back from Brazil, we're back in London to give you some of our latest home cooked recipes. And today, we have another dessert to share with you: chocolate chip cookies!
I remember my mom used to bake cookies for my sisters and I for our birthday parties when we were kids. It was by far my favorite treat in the world... She used to make variations, including versions with Smarties or M&Ms. I remember the warm, sweet smell coming out of the oven, it was like being in a bakery. Just a few years later, I learned how to make my mom's cookies and today I have become the official cookie baker of the family! (to my mom's greatest delight of course). And the smell that comes out of the oven always brings back sweet childhood memories...
Try baking these at home, they're really fun to make and your friends will love you for it!
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| Cookie Dough |
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| Place in the oven and let the magic happen... |
Chocolate Chip Cookies (makes 35-40 cookies)
Ingredients:2 cups plain flour
2 cups Muscovado brown sugar
250g good quality butter
2 eggs
1 tea spoon vanilla extract
1 tea spoon baking powder
1 tea spoon salt
300g dark chocolate (70% cocoa)
Preparation:
1) In a large bowl, mix the flour, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla extract and salt together.
2) Dissolve the baking powder with 1 tea spoon of hot water in a cup until it starts foaming, then add to the mix.
3) Add the chocolate. You can use ready made chocolate chips but I prefer chunkier bits of chocolate in my cookies so I break 3 x bars of chocolate into bits. (You can use a Ziploc bag and gently beat the chocolate bars inside with a rolling pin. Be careful though, don't beat too hard or you'll end up with chocolate dust!)
4) On a non-stick baking sheet, place 9 x balls of dough at equal distance. Make sure the balls are no bigger than the palm of your hand, otherwise they flatten out too much and the cookies will stick to each other.
5) Bake each tray for approximately 7 mins at 180C until golden. Once ready, take the cookies out the oven and let them cool for a few mins before serving.
TIPS: it's important to use good quality butter. I find that French butter usually works best (as with most desserts in my case). Apologies to all other countries but you just can't beat the flavor and texture of French butter. (Vive la France)!
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| Served with a glass of cold milk - perfect combination! |
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| Mmmmmmmm..... |
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