Cooking with kids - Chocolate Chip Cookies

CHOCOLATE-CHIP COOKIES

You’ll need:

¼ cup of butter, softened
¼ cup of white sugar & 2 tbl brown sugar
½ egg,
¼ tsp baking powder
½ cup all purpose flour
¼ cup of chocolate chips

1. Set the oven to 200°C 
2. Beat the butter with both of the sugars in a mixing bowl until creamy & fluffy. 
3. Whisk egg and beat it into the mixture until smooth 
4. Add the vanilla essence and mix it in 
5. Sift in flour and baking powder and to the mixture, a little at a time, and stir everything together well 
6. Add the chocolate chips and stir them in until they are evenly spread through the cookie mixture 
7. Butter the baking trays and spoon small mounds of mixture on to them, leaving quite big spaces between the mounds 
8. Bake the cookies for 9-10 minutes until they the edges are golden brown but still a little soft in the middle then move them on to a wire rack to cool.

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