Chocolate Chip Cookies

Total Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 115 g butter, softened
• 70 g caster sugar
• 70 g brown sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 140 g plain flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 175 g chocolate chips

Recipe

• 1 set the oven to 190°c/375°f/gas 5.
• 2 beat the butter and sugars together in a mixing bowl until creamy.
• 3 break the egg into the bowl and beat it into the mixture until smooth.
• 4 then add the vanilla essence and mix.
• 5 add the flour, salt and bicarbonate of soda to the mixture, a little at a time, and stir everything together well.
• 6 now add the chocolate chips and stir them in until they are evenly spread through the mixture.
• 7 butter the baking trays and spoon small mounds of the mixture on them leaving quite big spaces between the mounds.
• 8 bake the cookies for 10 to 12 minutes until they are an even golden brown colour, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool.