Simple Chocolate Chip Cookies

I love chocolate chip cookies. Can't always afford to buy Famous Amos. So i decided to make myself since i still have an extra block of butter and a few packet of flour left from Hari Raya. The picture shown here is my cookies and it come out well for first timer. Yeah! It taste almost like Famous Amos. This definitely my next year hari raya biscuit.

Do you know the first person who invented this cookie was Ruth Wakefield, who was the owner of the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts in 1930. She added small chunks of a Nestle's Semisweet Yellow Label Chocolate bar to her butter cookie dough and it became an instant hit. Due to this, in 1939, Nestle create and sell their chocolate morsels or chips.

Basic ingredient in the dough are flour, sugar (white and/or brown), butter or margarine, baking powder and/or baking soda, eggs, vanilla, and chocolate chips. However, chocolate chip cookie taste and texture do vary by recipe. Depending whether you like it crispy or soft and chewy. More brown sugar give caramel flavour.

Cookie Dough

Ingredient:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C).
• 170g unsalted butter, room temperature. I use salted butter, the only one in the fridge.
• 130g granulated white sugar. Use less sugar is better as chocolate chips are already sweet.
• 140g brown sugar.
• 1 large egg
• 1 large egg yolk
• 260g all purpose flour
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda. I use baking powder.
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract.
• 1/4 salt. I dont add as my butter is salty.
• 210g chocolate chips. Can also use chocolate chunks.
  

1. In a bowl, mix together flour, baking soda and salt.
   
2. In another bowl or in a mixer bowl, cream the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add the egg and egg yolk, beating until well combined. Beat in the vanilla extract.
   
3. Gradually add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture and beat just until incorporated. Stir in the chocolate chips.
   
4. Form the dough into balls. Place and flatten each balls on a baking sheet. Make sure each ball is well space.
   
5. Bake the cookies for about 15-17 minutes or until they are light golden brown in color and just set.