Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is another favourite recipe of mine. There is nothing better than eating a cookie still warm from the oven. The recipe came from somewhere within my mum's recipe collection so I'm not sure of it's origin. I do know that it has been around for a while because I remember these from my childhood. I like to keep the rolled out dough in the freezer so at a moments notice I can have them baking in the oven without over indulging and eating an entire batch in one day.

More recently I have experimented a little with it, mainly through the addition of oreo cookies and butterscotch chips. Oreo chocolate chips have cropped up on various food blogs and the idea is to cover an oreo in chocolate chip cookie dough baking the oreo inside. It's a cookie within a cookie! I have also been using a mixture of different chocolate and butterscotch chips and as always adding slightly more than suggested (without overloading the dough with chocolate!)

Chocolate Chip Cookies

125 g butter

½ cup brown sugar

½ cup white sugar

½ tsp vanilla

1 egg

1 ¾ cup self raising flour

1 tsp cocoa

½ tsp salt

100 g chocolate chips (Dark, Milk or White Chocolate)

Cream butter, sugars and vanilla. Add egg and beat well. Mix in sifted flour, salt and cocoa. Add chocolate chips and mix until the dough comes together.

Roll 1 Tbsp of dough into balls and lightly press with a floured fork. (If freezing, place rolled out cookies into the freezer.)

Bake at 190°C for 12-15 min.

To make Oreo Chocolate Chip Cookies: 

Shape the dough around an Oreo cookie and place on a greased tray. Chill for 30 mins in fridge.

Bake at 190°C for 12-15 min.

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