Chocolate Chip Cookies

There’s nothing like a chocolate chip cookie to lift your mood and for me, nothing beats a homemade cookie! 

I got this recipe from my mum who got it from a chain email that was sent around many years ago. The story goes that someone went to a Neiman Marcus department store cafe in the US and ate a cookie there and liked it so much they asked for the recipe and ended up paying $250 for it without realising. When the store refused to refund the money for the misunderstanding the person decided to take revenge share it with everyone free of charge. 

However, I have just done a bit of a google because I couldn’t remember the full story, and from what I found it seems the story is an urban legend! It apparently started back in the 1940s involving a red velvet cake recipe from the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. I have adjusted the original recipe slightly, but they should turn out chocolately and chewy!

INGREDIENTS

115g butter

½ cup caster sugar

½ cup brown sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 ¼ cup oats

1 cup flour

½ teaspoon bicarbonate soda

¼ teaspoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon salt

180g dark or milk chocolate

100g white chocolate

METHOD

1. Blend oats to a fine powder. Or you might just be able to buy ground oats.

2. Cream butter and both sugars in an electric mixer until smooth.

3. Add the egg and vanilla to the butter mixture until incorporated.

4. Stir in oats, flour, bicarbonate soda, baking powder.

5. Coarsely chop both of the chocolates into chunks, and add to the cookie dough. Alternatively you can buy chocolate chips and just pour them in.

 

6. Roll cookie dough into balls about 2cm wide and place on a baking tray spaced apart. Flatten the top of the cookies slightly.

7. Place in a preheated oven at 180°Celsius and bake for 10 minutes.

8. The cookies will still be a bit soft when you remove them from the oven, but they will harden up once cooled. Wait until they harden before removing them from the baking tray otherwise they might fall apart!

I have tried lots of other cookie recipes that claim to be the best but these ones seem to always work out better, even if the recipe's origins are somewhat dubious! And don’t forget to taste the cookie dough...!