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Description:
A crispy cookie affair with chocolate chips~
Ingredients:
100 g butter, softened
180 g granulated sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla
1 egg
140 g flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 C chocolate chips
Directions:
1) Cream butter, sugar and vanilla till fluffy.
2) Beat in egg till well-mixed.
3) Whisk flour and baking soda together in a bowl, and stir into the butter mixture till blended.
4) Add in chocolate chips.
5) Drop by rounded teaspoons onto a lined baking tray and bake in preheated oven at 175 deg for 12 min, or till cookie edges are brown.
6) Let the cookies cool on the rack for 3 min before lifting them off the tray. Cool completely and store in airtight container.
Remarks:
On one hand, I kept advocating on the necessity to eat healthily, and now on the other hand, I baked a batch of 68 sinful cookies that can send a diabetic to a hypergycemic state and a heart-compromised person to the stroke clinic! Such irony in Mankind! *in deep thought*
Anyway, the cookies were really crisp and thin, but not as thin as those wafer-like discs you can see from the original recipe source. This was attributed to the fact that I've added less sugar than what the original recipe called for. I didn't have enough butter on hand and my egg's a teeny winny smaller than a large one. Salt was omitted as salted butter was used, and brown sugar was replaced with granulated sugar instead.
The batter was split into 1/4 and 3/4 parts so that I can do some experimenting with flavours. I've added 1/2 tsp of cinnamon to the 1/4 batter to produce 12 humongous cinnamon cookies which were crisp on the outside and caramel-like on the inside! The remaining batter had chocolate chips added to them, and they turned out crispy throughout as I had baked them smaller compared to that of the cinnamon ones. Overall, I find that the cookies can make do with more vanilla as they weren't as fragrant as I'd expected them to be and that they are a tad bit greasy, but boy, they are sweet and crispy!
Do make it a point to leave enough space for the cookies to spread; if not, consequence is as follows:
I had fun peering through the oven door to see heaped towers melting down, fanning out into puddles of sugary batter, and eventually hardening into a golden, delicate cookies:
