American recipe
How to make Chocolate chip cookies
Massachusetts, now eaten everywhere
Crisp at the edges and soft in the middle, these butter and brown sugar cookies are dotted with pieces of chocolate. They are the most popular cookie in the United States.
Ingredients
- 115 g butter, softened
- 100 g soft light brown sugar
- 50 g white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 190 g plain flour
- Half a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- Half a teaspoon of salt
- 170 g chocolate chips or chopped dark chocolate
- 50 g chopped walnuts (optional; leave them out for anyone with a nut allergy)
Method
- Heat the oven to 190°C (170°C fan) and line two baking trays with baking paper.
- Beat the butter with both sugars until light and creamy, then beat in the egg and vanilla.
- Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt, and stir them into the butter mixture. Stir in the chocolate and the nuts, if using.
- Put rounded tablespoons of dough on the trays, about 5 cm apart. This makes about 24 cookies.
- Bake for 9 to 11 minutes, until golden at the edges but still pale in the middle. Leave on the trays for 5 minutes, then move to a rack to cool.
- Do not eat the raw dough: raw flour and raw egg can carry harmful bacteria, and only baking makes them safe.
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They are credited to Ruth Wakefield, who ran the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, in the 1930s. In 1997 Massachusetts made the chocolate chip cookie its official state cookie.
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