Chocolate Chip Cookies

These are the most delicious, melt-in-the-mouth cookies I have ever tasted.  I actually ate 4 in one day!  The recipe is one I adapted years ago from www.aspoonfulofsugar.net

Makes 12 large cookies

• 150g plain flour
• 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 85g unsalted butter
• 105g light brown sugar
• 60g granulated white sugar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 110g milk chocolate chips

Put flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt in a bowl and stir together.

Melt butter in pan and allow to cool slightly.  Add both sugars, vanilla and egg.  Beat well.

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Stir in dry ingredients then fold in chocolate chips.  Do this quickly as they do start to melt!  Cover with cling film and chill dough for at least 30 minutes until firm.

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Preheat oven to 190C.  Drop golf ball sized mounds of dough onto a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper. 

Bake in oven for 10-12 minutes.  They look at feel a little underdone but they're ready.

Allow to cool for a minute or so and then move on to a cooling rack.  Then try to not eat them all at once!!!