Friday, February 1, 2013

Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Baking cookies is something I love to do during long winter nights. The house smells of childhood memories and if I want a little snack after a late night out, I can always rely on homemade cookies with a warm glass of milk!
I only have one concern, that it's easy to make and easy to eat. No weird colored icing on top, no awkward decorations, honest and simple is what works for me.
This recipe is very versatile, you can add nuts, cover them with icing sugar, pile them up and smother them with extra melted chocolate, at this hour, anything goes!
These cookies were first made by accident, apparently someone tried to create a recipe with cookies and melted chocolate inside. Well, the chocolate didn't melt, but by eating these one does get the sense of excitement when one gets to the tiny bits of chocolate with every bite one takes.
I guess that's the reason why this recipe became so popular !
Enjoy and do involve friends and family when you bake. It's so much more fun!

Ingredients:
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups flower
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 spoon hot water
pinch of salt
2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips
1 cup walnuts (optional)

Preheat the oven to 175 degrees Celsius.
Cream the butter in a bowl, add the sugar, then beat in the eggs.
Continue with the vanilla and slowly add the flower, keep stirring and add the rest of the ingredients.
If you do add the walnuts, try to add them at the very last.
Shape the dough into round, flat cookies, keep them at a distance from each other, cause they will grow during the baking process.
Put them on a baking sheet and bake them for about 10 minutes in your oven.
Depending on the strength of your oven, they might need 2 more minutes.
Let them cool, warm up your milk and you're good to go!!!!

With love !

No comments:

Post a Comment