CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES RECIPE…

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES RECIPE…

Ingredients
100g Butter or Margarine
100g Caster Sugar
1 Egg (beaten)
175g Plain Flour
½ tsp Baking Powder
½ tsp salt
1 tsp Vanilla extract
150g plain chocolate, coarsely chopped (or choc chips)
For a more chocolatty taste add 50g cocoa powder

Method
Preheat oven to 200C Gas 6
Cream together the butter and sugar with a hand mixer until light and fluffy
Gradually beat in the egg and vanilla extract
Sift in the flour, baking powder and salt and mix together
Stir in the chocolate chips
Grease two baking trays
Using 2 teaspoons, place about 18 dollops of the mixture onto greased trays, leaving enough space for them to spread. Smooth down the cookies by dipping a teaspoon in cold water.
Bake for 12 – 15 mins
Leave to cool for five minutes then place them on a wire rack

APPLE AND OATMEAL COOKIES….

Ingredients (makes around 48 biscuits)
110g (4oz) Butter or Margarine
175g(6oz) Honey
1 Egg (beaten)
1 tsp vanilla
90g (3oz) Stoneground Wholemeal Flour
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
¾ tsp ground cinnamon
125g (4.25oz) Porridge Oats
1 apple, cored and chopped

Method
Preheat oven to 190C Gas 5
Cream the butter, honey, egg and vanilla until smooth
Combine the flour, bicarbonate of soda and cinnamon and stir into the creamed mixture
Mix in the oats and apple
Grease two baking trays
Drop teaspoonfuls onto a greased baking tray
Bake for 8 – 10 mins
Leave to cool for five minutes then place them on a wire rack