This simple recipe will give you lovely soft chewy cookies, similar to Millie’s cookies (who do amazing cookies if you’ve never tried them!). The guide baking time is 8 minutes, but you can bake them between 7-10 mins if you prefer them a bit softer or harder.

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• Ingredients
• Equipment
• Instructions

Ingredients

• 125g Unsalted Butter (room temp)
• 115g Golden Granulated/Caster Sugar
• 110g White Granulated/Caster Sugar
• 1 Medium Egg
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 220g Self Raising Flour
  • If you do not have self raising flour, mix 2 tsp baking powder to each 150g of flour, this will be just under 3 tsp (roughly 12g) of baking powder
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 200g Chopped chocolate (or chocolate chips)
  • Any chocolate will do, this recipe was done twice, once with white chocolate and once with dark chocolate

Equipment

• Two bowls
• Electric whisk (a hand wisk can work but it will be harder)
• Spatula
• Baking trays
  • Ideally 4 if you have room, or make the cookies two trays at a time
• Greaseproof paper
• Sieve

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 200°C, (fan 180°C, gas mark 4) and line your baking trays with greaseproof paper.

• Whisk the butter and sugars together until the mixture is fluffy and pale.

• add the egg and vanilla extract and whisk the mixture until mixed together.

• Sift the flour and salt (and baking powder if applicable) into a separate bowl and then add to the mixture a little bit at a time, whisking as you go (this avoids the flour going everywhere!). A soft dough will form.

• Stir in the chocolate with a spatula, making sure they are evenly distributed (have a taste, cookie dough is delicious!).

• Make small balls of cookie dough and put them in the lined baking trays. Leave a lot of space between them as they will spread when they bake. About 6 per medium sized tray is recommended.

• Put the baking trays in the oven and bake for 8 minutes, remember you can bake from 7 to 10 minutes depending on the texture you prefer.

Note: When removed from the oven, the cookies will come out looking uncooked and unset, this is normal and they will harden as they cool

• Remove from the oven and carefully put the greaseproof paper with the cookies onto wire racks for about 10 minutes, so the cookies can set.

• Now it’s time to enjoy them!