Chocolate Chip Cookies

Some classics need no introduction or description, And fresh out of the oven chocolate chip cookies is one of them.
i myself am not a big fan of cookies...i mean i like to have one or two once in a while but would always prefer a cake to a cookie, and hence i rarely bake cookies, because the recipes are usually for big batches that i know i'm not gonna eat. But once in a while my brothers either force me or bribe or blackmail me (in return for some other favor) to bake them their favorite cookies. And hence the cookies.

this is a classic hershey's chocolate chip cookie recipe that i got from the back of the hershey's chocolate chips packet many years ago...it turned out pretty perfect and i never felt the need to go looking for another recipe, although over the years i have started substituting half of the all purpose flour with whole wheat. it still turns out pretty perfect and nobody has to know about the whole wheat.

Ingredients:

1 cup all purpose flour
1 ¼ cup whole wheat flour

½ teaspoon salt

1 cup butter, softened

½ cup granulated sugar

¾ cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 eggs

2 cups chocolate chips

1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Method:

Preheat oven to 180°C

sift the flours and keep aside.

In a large bowl beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla until creamy. Add eggs and beat well. Gradually add the flour mixture beating well.

Stir in the chocolate chips and chopped nuts.

Drop by rounded teaspoons unto ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 8 to 10 minutes until lightly browned.

Makes around 5 dozen cookies.

I reserved some of the plane cookie dough(before adding the chocolate chips), kept it in the fridge overnight and made chocofils with it.
all you have to do is shape small portions into a ball shape, make an indentation in the middle and fill it with a small piece of chocolate, close the dough ball so that the chocolate is in the middle and bake the same way as the chocolate chip cookies.
And voila...yummy chocofils..that even a non cookie person like me ate quite a few.















You can also bake plain cookies and sandwich
them caramel sauce or chocolate ganache. to make
sandwich cookies.