Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 100 g butter (softened) or 100 g margarine (softened)
• 100 g soft brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon golden syrup or 1 tablespoon honey
• 150 g self raising flour
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)
• 50 g chocolate chips or 50 g smarties candies

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 170°c/160°c fan/gas 3.
• 2 beat the butter, sugar and syrup together until soft and creamy.
• 3 mix in the flour, vanilla extract and add the chocolate chips.
• 4 divide the mixture into about 15 pieces and roll into balls using your hands.
• 5 place well apart on greased baking sheets. do not flatten them.
• 6 bake for about 10 mins until a pale golden colour (don't cook any longer or they'll go crispy!).
• 7 leave to cool on the tray for a few minutes and then remove from the tray and finish cooling on a wire rack.
• 8 variations:.
• 9 use any combination of raisins, chopped glace cherries, dates, dried apricots, nuts etc instead of chocolate chips if preferred.
• 10 for double chocolate cookies, replace 2 tbsp of the flour with 2 tbsp cocoa.
• 11 use dairy-free marg and choc chips for vegan/dairy-free cookies.