White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Fancy some chewy, melt in the mouth cookies today? Yep I thought so!

I’ve been making these cookies for the last 5 years - they were an easy bake when my children were babies - quick to prepare and oh so delicious straight from the oven. A winner when friends were coming round and my cupboards were otherwise bare (oops!)

The white chocolate chunks I used here are from a smashed bar as I prefer the chocolate hit to be bigger but you can use chocolate chips too - in fact, switch the chocolate for dried fruit or nuts if you’d prefer.

White Chocolate Cookies

Author Ella | Date 09/05/19

• prep time: 10 minutes

• cook time: 12 minutes

• total time: 22 minutes

Servings: 8

Ingredients:

• 110g butter

• 200g light soft brown sugar

• 1 egg

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• 200g plain flour

• 1/2 tsp baking powder

• 1/2 tsp baking soda

• pinch of salt

• 100g broken white chocolate or chocolate chips

Instructions:

1. Beat the butter together with the sugar until light and fluffy

2. Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat again

3. Add the remaining dry ingredients - flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt and mix thoroughly

4. I use a stand mixer usually and at this point it's worth removing the bowl from the stand and finishing by hand as the mix is fairly stiff

5. Add the chocolate and combine fully

6. Line two baking trays with non-stick parchment paper and place small balls of mixture evenly spaced on each. I use two baking trays as the mix tends to spread in the oven and I love the giant cookies it creates!

7. Bake at 180 degrees C fan assisted for 12 minutes

8. Remove from the oven and leave to cool on a wire rack