Monday, April 16, 2018

Chocolate Chips Cookies

i think the kids are probably tired of seeing cakes/muffins/cupcakes appearing from the oven. It is no longer exciting even for myself.  There are so many things that I would like to give it a try but god knows what’s making me procrastinate. I have no idea why I am so terrified of certain bakes, e.g. Cheese Cake, Breads and Cream Cakes.  Maybe, I just wanna try to perfect whatever that was deemed “hey, quite nice leh” and I really wanna have consistency in each bake, than to have different taste and feel for the same recipe.

Becos the NSG is happening this week for the teenager, and I wanna show my moral support, besides going jogging with him, (secretly, I feel super shiok that the 15yo jio-ed me along), I decided to bake one of his favorites- Chocolate Chips Cookies to show my love and auppprt.  Scrolling through so many recipes, I decided on this and it turned it quite well!

Ingredients:

part A -  Wet Ingredients:
- 165g melted butter
- 70g granulated sugar
- 70g brown sugar 
- 2 egg yolks
- 2 tsp vanilla extract 
* recipe calls for 80g each but becos we do not like overly sweet cookies, hence i reduced to 70g each. 

Part B - Dry Ingredients:
- 300g Plain or All Purpose Flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 to 1 1/2 cup of chocolate chips



Steps:
1. Pre-heat oven at 190degrees.  Prepare 2 trays lined with parchment papers.

2. Melt the butter under small heat and once melted, bring away and stir slowly and let it slowly cool and solidify.

3. Add in both granulated and brown sugar and stir until well-combined.

4. Add in egg yolks and stir again till well-combined, then add in 2 tsp of vanilla extract.  Mix well.

5. Mix all the dry ingredients together, leaving out the chocolate chips.

6. Sieve into the sugar-egg-butter mixtures in 3 portions.  Using a spatula, ensure its well mixed before adding the 2nd.  Using a spatula again, mixed well before adding the last and 3rd portion.  This time, use hand to rub and mix well.

7. Add in chocolate chips and continue to mix using hands.

8. Pinch the mixture and roll into balls, estimated 25-30g of weight.  Line them on the parchment papers.  Gently press down the balls to form a circle shape.  You may like to add in more chocolate chips on top of the balls.

9. Send into the oven for 12 minutes.  Rotate the tray and continue baking for another 8-9 mins.

10. When done, leave the cookies to cool for 5 mins before transferring to a cooling rack to let the cookies cool down totally.





Happy mum