Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: Chocolate Chip Cookies
Yield: Makes 30 cookies
Ingredients: few drops vanilla essence; 1 113-g/4-oz packet chocolate chips; 50 g/2 oz finely chopped walnuts; 110 g/4 oz butter; 25 g/1 oz brown sugar; 80 g/3 oz castor sugar; 1 egg; 140 g/5 oz plain flour; ½ level teaspoon bicarbonate of soda; ¼ level teaspoon salt

Preparation info

Makes
30
cookies

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Times Calendar Cookbook

By Katie Stewart

Published 1977

About

These cookies make a good addition to a picnic basket. The semi-sweet chocolate chips in the mixture soften during cooking but harden up again on cooling to provide crunchy pieces of chocolate throughout each one.

Ingredients

140 g/5 oz plain flour
½ level teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Vegetarian
Cookies

Method

Sift together the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt. Cream the butter and both sugars until soft. Lightly mix the egg and vanilla essence and gradually beat into the creamed mixture. Stir in the sifted flour and beat well. Finally stir in the chocolate chips and the walnuts.

Spoon heaped teaspoonfuls of the mixture on to greased baking trays. Space the cookies a little apart to allow