->Chocolate Chip 23 <-

Yield: 18 cookies

115 g butter; softened

70 g caster sugar

70 g brown sugar

1 egg

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

140 g plain flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

175 g chocolate chips

190 C /

375 F / Gas

5. Beat the butter and sugars

together in a mixing bowl until creamy. Break the egg into the

bowl and beat it into the mixture until smooth. Then add the

vanilla essence and mix it in. Add the flour, salt and bicarbonate

of soda to the mixture, a little at a time, and stir everything

together well. Now add the chocolate chips and stir them in until

they are evenly spread through the cookie mixture. Butter the

baking trays and spoon small mounds of the mixture on them leaving

quite big spaces between the mounds. Bake the cookies for 10 to

12 minutes until they are an even golden brown colour, then move

them on to a wire rack to cool.