Choco Chip Cookie

Baking cookies has such a great memory for me, the whole house smells yum and the crunch of freshly baked cookie is so different.  Due to my love of baking cookies, I have always made young friends who are ready to barter doing stuff for this cookie.  Not sure of others but baking cookies just brings in happiness in the house. I was doing samples for today and suddenly the heavenly smell pulled everyone to come near the oven and wait for the cookie to be baked. Tea/Milk time become a happy sharing and built memories.

This traditionally originated in USA and is a drop cookie. It is very easy to make. I have tried to make the traditional recipe healthy and tried to give a eggless twist.

Ingredients

• Butter- 120 gm (softened not melted)
• Castor sugar- ¼ cup
• Brown Sugar- ½ cup
• 1 ¼ cup flour – ( you can use full all purpose flour or 50% whole wheat and 50% flour or 1 cup whole wheat and ¼ cup all-purpose flour)
• Baking Soda- ½ tsp
• Egg – 1  (for eggless 3 tbsp Milk powder + 3 tbsp Milk)
• Chcoco chip – 1 cup ( or any chocolate chunks)
• Vanilla essence- ½ tsp

Method

1. Mix flour and Soda together and keep aside
2. Beat Sugar and Butter together till it becomes creamy
3. Add egg  or Milk powder and milk. Pl be careful do not over add the milk as batter will become watery
4. Beat the same and add essence
5. Now add the flour + soda. Beat slightly and try and get the mixture together with hand like a dough. Add choco- chips and save some for some for decoration.
6. Take a tbsp and drop cookie on a baking tray with parchment paper.  Cookies should be away atleast 3-4 inches as they will tend to become three times the size after baking
7. You can slightly press the drop by adding some additional choco chip on top
8. Put the tray in fridge to set for at least half an hour
9. Bake in a preheated oven at 160 degree for 15 min or so. The test is cookie should move freely in the oven.
10. Please note cookie will continue baking once u take out the tray. So after 5 min remove from tray and put on wire rack to cool. Incase u find your cookie under cooked unlike a cake it can go back to the oven again.

Variations – Apart from Choco-chip you can add chocolate chunks or any kind of additions like nuts.  To give it a vanilla cookie flavour you can add 1 tbsp custard powder and skip chocolate.

Tip : If butter is melted cookies will not get height but will be flattened.  Do not skip the fridge part before baking the cookies otherwise you will have unshaped cookies.