The world's best giant chocolate chunk cookies!

These cookies are so delicious so I thought, as my very first 'proper' blog post I would share them with you. So wash your hands, tie your hair back and let's get started!Whoop whoop! 

Ingredients:

• 200g 'softened' unsalted butter
• 300g golden caster sugar
• 1 egg
• 325g self raising flour (if you don't have that just mix a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda and plain flour.
• A splosh of milk/water
• 200g of your favourite chocolate
• Vanilla Essence/Extract

Equipment:

• Big bowl
• 2 baking trays (depending on the size you want your cookies)
• Electric whisk
• Baking paper

Method:

Preheat the oven to 200C/Gas mark 6.

Grease 2 baking trays or preferable cover with baking paper/tracing paper.

1. Mix the sugar and butter with an electric whisk.

2. Add the egg and vanilla essence and whizz.

3. Add the flour a little at a time and then whizz again.

4a. If your mixture is too dry and crumbling add a dash of milk or water. Make sure you only add a little at a time because you don't want it to become to wet.

4b. If your mixture is the wet just add a little more flour.

5. Break the chocolate into little pieces and mix into the dough with your hands. Make sure the chocolate is well distributed and you haven't ate it all!!
 

6. Drop about 8-10 rounded handfuls of the mixture onto the baking trays. (the smaller the cookie dough the more you make)

7. Put them in the oven for 10-12 minutes. The longer you leave them in the oven the more crispy they will be. If you take them out after 10 minutes they will be crispy on the inside and chewy in the middle.

8. Let them to cool on the baking tray for about 10-15 mins before moving them to a cooling rack to cool for a further 5-10 mins.

9. Tah dah! That's it! Take your apron off and enjoy!

TIP 1: To make this more into a dessert, rather than a snack, serve with ice cream or cream.

TIP 2: I always have a tub of bubbly hot water so I can wash my hands when they get a bit sticky.

 

I did not create this recipe and just changed the recipe a little from the Marks & Spencer's Easy Chocolate Book(I can't find the link but I am sure if you pop into a M&S you will see one!)