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Get it? Pahahaha

Anyway here's some cookies / biscuits.
But calling them biscuits ruins the internet file joke.

Chocolate Chip Half Dipped Thins

• 1/2 cup butter/margarine
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup light or dark soft brown sugar (i used 1/4 cup of each but it's no biggy)
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• pinch of salt (salt matters)
• 1/2-3/4 cup plain flour (i guesstimated)
• 3/4-1 cup chocolate chips (i improvised and used smashed up minstrels) probably not a whole cup either
• Bit of chocolate to melt for dippin'

Jeez! Spell checker didn't even correct the word 'guesstimate'. Welcome to the 21st century folks...

Line and lightly grease cookie sheets (baking trays) with parchment and.. erm.. grease.
Preheat to 350 degrees.
Cream butter and sugar in a large bowl. Recipe calls for a large bowl, not me. I won't judge you on the size of your equipment...
Beat in the egg.
Then stir in vanilla, flour and salt.
Add chocolate chips or minstrels or m&ms or nuts or whatever you want.*

*Not lego.

Drop onto parchment, about 2 tsp per cookie. Leave some space between each one to avoid any funny business; we all know that cookies love each other and will try to unite.

Cook for 10 ish minutes until the edges are golden and the middles are set. 

Leave to cool, cookies will be soft when hot but will crisp up when cool. When they are cool, you can half dip them in melted chocolate and leave to set but they are still yummy just as they are. 

I made some mocha-choca-something thingies too. Will post recipe when I find my notes :) 

XXX

Ch-Ch-Chocolate Ch-Ch-Chips

Something happened in my kitchen on Sunday.

Cookiefest 2011.

Line-up
1 cup salted butter
1 vanilla pod/ 2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup white sugar
1 1/2 cups light brown sugar
12oz plain flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 eggs
2 1/4 cups dark chocolate chips/chopped dark chocolate




It was hot, messy and pretty sweet.

• Preheat oven to gas mark 5
• Cream butter and sugar until light in colour very fluffy (about 5 mins)
• Add eggs and the contents of the vanilla pod/extract
• Beat for 2 minutes
• Add baking powder, soda, salt and flour
• Mix to incorporate, you will have a sticky dough/batter
• Fold in chocolate chips
• Spoon 2 tbsp ball of dough per cookie on to a buttered parchment lined baking sheet 
• Not in your mouth....

• Leave sufficient space around each cookie as they will flatten out in the oven
• Bake for 12-14 mins until the edges lightly brown

Cookies should be soft in the middle when warm and will harden over 3 days but keep for like a week if your boyfriend and sister don't eat them all first.

Now....Milk. :)

xxx