Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

• 125 gram butter (melted)
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 large egg
• 1&1/4 cup cake wheat flour or all purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup chocolate chips

Instructions

1. 1

   Preheat oven to 160 degrees Celsius. Line 2 trays with parchment paper and set aside

2. 2

   Beat the butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar together until combined. Mix in the vanilla essence

3. 3

   Beat in the egg and vanilla essence. Add the flour, salt and bicarbonate of soda and mix until combined

4. 4

   Add the chocolate chips and mix well. You should have a soft cookie dough

5. 5

   Scoop up a level ice-cream scoop of cookie dough and place on the lined cookies tray. Place more chocolate chips on top of each cookie if you wish. Place them a few centimetres apart as they will spread

6. 6

   Place them in the refrigerator for 1 hour. Remove them after an hour and gently flatten the tops just a little, with the back of a spoon

7. 7

   Bake at 160 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes. If you prefer crispy cookies bake a little longer. Cookies will still be soft when removed from the oven. Place them on a cooling rack to cool