Xmas recipe: How to make Chocolate Chip Cookies

Gurgaon-based food blogger Debjani Chatterjee tells us how to make chocolate chip cookies at home.

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Chocolate chip cookies can double up as a tea-time snack and a dessert.

According to Debjani Chatterjee, a food blogger and Rediff reader, it also makes for a good Christmas gift.

Here's the recipe:

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1 1/2 cup castor sugar (half of the sugar can be replaced with brown sugar)
• 50g chocolate chips (you can use more chips, I have used dark chocolate chips; other flavour also would do)
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 tsp vanilla essence

Method

• Mix all the dry ingredients -- all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl.
• In a bowl, add butter (at room temperature) and add sugar powder and start beating to get a fluffy creamy mixture.
• Add one egg, beat it well.
• Add another egg and vanilla essence. Beat it well to get the wet mixture done.
• Mix dry ingredients with the wet ingredients.
• Don't add entire flour at a time but add the flour in three parts and mix with the wet ingredients using cut and fold method.
• Add choco chips to the mix. The end product should be a semi-soft cookie dough.
• Cover the dough using a cling film and transfer it to a refrigerator for two to three hours.
• Pre-heat the oven in 180 degree C for 10 minutes.
• Take the dough out of the refrigerator and make small 1.5" rounds out of it.
• Place them on a baking tray and bake for around 10 to 12 minutes in 180 degree C. There should be a gap of 3" between the cookies.
• Do check after eight minutes. Remember the condition of the cookies varies depending on the oven you use.
• Take the cookies out in a wire rack and give a standing time of 10 minutes.

Note: If unsalted butter is not available then normal salted butter can be used but in that case no need to add extra salt in the flour.

Photo: kitchenofdebjani.com

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