So I've been baking a lot recently (bananananana bread and cookies and bananananana bread, oh my!) and the cookies I made last night turned out great! I thought I had better record the recipe before I lost it. It's currently jotted down on the back of an envelope so losing it is a distinct possibility....
The Basic Cookie Recipe
1.5 cups/4.5 oz/127 g
sugar
1 cup/4 oz/ 113 g margarine or butter
1 egg
2.25 cups/8 oz/ 226 g flour
(if using plain flour or gluten free then add baking powder. 1 tsp for plain flour or for each 200g gluten free four).
2 drops vanilla essence
2 cups/100g chocolate
Slosh of booze
Beat the sugar and margarine/butter together in a large bowl.
Add the egg. Beat again.
Sift in the flour (and baking powder if using it). Add the vanilla essence, chocolate, any other nuts or fruit you fancy and a generous slosh of rum or Tia Maria or Sailor Jerry's or... you get the idea.
Mix until you have cookie dough.
Put the dough in cling film and make a big sausage out of it. Bung this in the freezer for 20 - 30 minutes.
Cut the dough into roughly 15 roughly even bits. Mould them into sort of round dods and put them on a baking tray on top of baking paper. Actually, use 2 trays because they spread out a lot. Cook in a pre-heated oven, gas mark 3.5 (170 degrees C/350 degrees F), for 15 or so minutes.
Take them out and try and leave them to cool before you scoff the lot!
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