Hi everyone, today I'm going to tell you how I
make my yummy Chocolate Chip and Almond cookies.
Now as I've mentioned to you all before in my Chocolate Crispy Cakes post, I'm not a
very adventurous or talented cook, but I have started to very much enjoy baking
and I'm really hoping to do more. I've
started small with some easy cookies and although my first attempt did not go
as planned (more on that later), I think I might have mastered it and they do
always seem to taste pretty good! So if
you'd like to know how I make them, keep on reading :-)
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I was lucky enough to get a really nice food
processor recently (with the aim of doing more baking) and this made the recipe
really quick to make but of course these cookies can be made by hand too, just
with a spoon, a bowl and a lot of mixing!
After gathering up my ingredients (minus the
coco powder in the pictures), I started by cutting the butter in to cubes and
adding it to the sugar in my processor, it only takes about 10-15 seconds to make
the mixture nice and smooth and all I used to measure out all my ingredients
was a basic cereal bowl and a set of scales.
Next, I broke the egg in to my bowl, made sure
there were no loose bits of shell in with it and then slightly whisked it with
a fork before pouring it in to the food processor and mixing it again.
Then I added the rest of the main ingredients;
the flour, baking powder and salt (which I forgot to take a photo off, whoops!)
And then thoroughly mixed it all
together.
Finally, I chopped up 150g worth of chocolate
into little pieces, ooh yum! And then to
finish off I crushed up about 50g of ordinary organic almonds and carefully added
it all in to the food processor and gave it a final mix, just enough to spread
the chocolate and almonds evenly throughout the mixture.
Taking a table spoon and a butter knife, I just
spooned out a small dollop of the mixture on to my baking tray (after covering
the tray with greaseproof paper), and with the knife just patted each one in to
a 1.5" – 2" flat
circle. I manage to get about 15 little
dollops of mixture evenly spaced on the tray, definitely make sure you don't
put them too close together, otherwise they'll just end up spreading in to one
giant cookie!
Just to add, this recipe makes around 28-30
cookies in all, so you'll need to cook one tray-full then another, or if you
prefer, just halve all the ingredients for a smaller batch.
I put my oven on when I first started adding the
mixture to the tray, just so it had a few minutes to heat up ready, then I put
my tray of cookie mixture in the oven on the top rack to cook.
After about 5 minutes I turned the tray around
to make sure the cookies continued to cook evenly, then after nearly 10
minutes, they were all done. After
checking them with a clean fork (as in the instructions above), I just used a
knife to cut through where they had joined together and then let them cool.
As I mentioned earlier, this was my second
attempt at making cookies, my first attempt really didn't go so well. I planned to make some cute heart shaped
cookies for my boyfriend and I to share on Valentines day, they went in the oven in a reasonably
good heart shape, but honestly they came out looking more like a big splodgy
crumbled mess!
On the upside, they tasted great :-) but I think
I'll definitely make smaller shapes and space them a lot further apart if I
decide to make shaped ones again in the future!
I'm really happy with this batch though, they've
definitely come out looking a lot more cookie-shaped :-) So will you try out this recipe, if you do
I'd love to hear about it in the comments and send me a photo of your finished
cookies on Twitter too.
Until Next Happy Baking ♥
Original recipe from BBC Good Food website
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