Chocolate Chip Cookies ~ Easy & Delicious

This recipe is a favourite in our house. Very simple and makes a large batch.  I have changed the flour content to wholemeal - and guess what? No one knows the difference! Wholemeal flour and dark choc chips - it could almost be classed as a healthy snack?! ;-P

Ingredients:

  • 260 grams of salt reduced butter (at room temperature)
  • 260 grams of sugar
  • 100 grams of brown sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
  • 2 packets of dark chocolate bits
  • 260 grams of wholemeal plain flour
  • 260 grams of wholemeal self raising flour

Method:

  1. Pre-heat oven to 170°C (fan forced oven)
  2. Cream butter and sugar together with beaters until pale (about 5 mins)
  3. Add eggs, one at a time ensuring they are well mixed in.
  4. Add vanilla and choc chips, mix through evenly.
  5. Add flour and stir with wooden spoon until all flour is mixed in.
  6. Spoon mixture onto trays - I usually do about a desert spoon size but you can make them as big or small as you like (the smaller you go the more you get, which can be good in a large family!)
  7. Bake in oven for around 10 - 15mins depending on the size of your cookies.

Flour can be substituted with white plain and white self raising if desired, however I can tell you quite honestly, judging by the end product it is really hard to tell between the two - trust me, my family has no idea!!!

As a variation to this recipe you could also add nuts (macadamias) and white choc chips to make a really scrummy biscuit, I don’t do this in our house as two don’t like white chocolate and the other is allergic to nuts and unfortunately that would only leave me to eat them!