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Along with my previous recipe for chocolate brownies, here comes a new one for delicious chocolate chip cookies.

Another homemade recipe for those who enjoy baking (or just love to snack on something tasty). These are great for a party, a girls (or boys) night in, or just to treat yourself. These cookies should be mouth-wateringly chewy and way way way too sweet and sugary that you might be sick if you eat too many… in a good way. Please ENJOY!

Ingredients:

• 125g butter
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup caster sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp of vanilla essence
• 1 cup of self-raising flour
• 3/4 cup of plain flour
• 1 tsp of baking soda
• 1 cup choc chips (white, milk, or dark)

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 160 degrees Celsius
2. Melt butter in the microwave and let it cool  
3. Pour butter into a large bowl and add brown sugar and caster sugar - stir until dissolved
4. Stir in egg and vanilla essence
5. Sift both self-raising flour and plain flour, then baking soda, and gradually add to mix - stir until combined
6. Stir in chocolate chips
7. Can either stop here and just devour the cookie dough OR…
8. Make round tablespoons of cookie dough onto lined baking tray (with baking paper)
9. Bake in the oven for 12 minutes or until Golden
10. Let cool for a few minutes
11. Then eat!!!!

Special additions

If you're looking for a healthier option, just replace some of these ingredients to make yummy oatmeal cookies, using honey instead of sugar, dark chocolate chips, whole what flour, applesauce, cinnamon, raisins, and nuts. You can find great recipes on the internet. 

But I'm sorry, yes my recipe is a slightly less healthy but ridiculously scrumptious option, and if you’re like me and can’t help but sneakily eat some of the cookie dough before plopping it onto a tray then there's no excuse not to do that with this recipe either. Roll the cookie dough up in glad wrap like a sausage, pop it in the fridge and save it for next time you want some cookies. You could even be experimental and add some chunks into ice cream!

If you want to get crazy and experiment, other alternatives instead of just chocolate chips in the cookies could include:

• Toffee
• Candy-coated chocolates like M&M’s
• Any candy bar
• Coconut
• Dried cranberries, or apricot
• Mini marshmallows
• Peanut butter/peanut butter cups
• Pretzels or potato chips for a crunchy surprise (yes chips!)
• Popcorn
• Sprinkles
• Oreos
• Any nuts
• Even bacon (apparently)

The possibilities truly are… endless!

If you celebrate Halloween, you could transform these cookies into a spooky snack, by using white and milk chocolate chips to make some googly eyes, or get creative with some frosting on top, or even food colouring. You can even use green, red and white frosting, sprinkles, candy canes, or M&M’s to decorate the cookies or cookie cutters like a Christmas tree, snowflake, or reindeer for a Christmas party.

Fun Fact:

Do you know who invented chocolate chip cookies? It was some genius American chefs, Ruth Wakefield and Sue Brides in 1938. Ruth invented the cookie recipe in the Toll House Inn, in Whitman, Massachusetts which she owned at the time. They had been serving thin butterscotch nut cookies with ice cream to their guests which they all loved, so Ruth decided to try come up with something different. Coming up with the original recipe Toll House Cookie, adding chopped up chocolate bits from a Nestle chocolate bar and letting them fall where they may.  After giving Nestle the recipe for her invention, Ruth was paid back with a lifetime supply of chocolate from the company. What a legend!

I hope you enjoy these cookies! Remember to be creative and think of dear Ruth when you do!