For my money, chocolate chip cookies are one of the simplest baking recipes out there. This is especially true for beginners. They are often something that children typically first learn to bake.
Kids are usually being assisted by a parent or grandparent, in this instance. In fact, I remember making cookies at school as part of one of my cooking classes so I can vouch for this.
Mixing the chocolate chip cookie dough
Your first step should be to mix together the sugar and butter. Continue mixing until it has a creamy consistency. One can either do this in a bowl by hand or use an electric stand mixer like I did.
As a much cheaper and healthier alternative, I used margarine (or oil) instead of butter. I also used a drop of vanilla extract in the cookie dough just to give it some added flavour. Next up, you need to add an egg and then mix that in as well.
Swapping out ingredients
After this you can add bicarbonate of soda, salt and flour to the mixture before stirring some more. The recipe does clearly state that one should use bicarbonate of soda.
Although, I used baking powder instead and it still worked absolutely fine without issue. You will ultimately be left with what should look like cookie dough.
Improvising my chocolate chips
The final item you need to add is the chocolate chips. Do this before giving the whole thing one last good mix. Personally, I made my own chocolate chips.
This can easily be achieved by purchasing a chocolate bar and chopping it up into small pieces with a knife. I used a Cadbury’s fruit and nut bar but you can use any type of chocolate you like.
If you are particularly health conscious, it’s relatively easy to substitute one ingredient for another. For the most part, there is no real reason why this should negatively affect the end product as a whole.
It can also be done for convenience sake or even financial reasons in order to save money. This can all be pretty flexible in regard to how faithful you want to follow a recipe.
Do you remember baking chocolate chip cookies as a youngster? Which method do you prefer to use when mixing cookie dough and why?
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