Cooking Monster: Cookies

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

December 14, 2012

Ingredients
100g butter, softened
1/4 cup castor sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 and 3/4 cups all purpose flour
3 tbsp cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
3/4 cup milk chocolate chips

Instructions
1) Preheat oven to 180'c and line baking sheet with baking paper
2) Cream butter, castor sugar and brown sugar until smooth. Then continue mixing with the egg and vanilla essence until well mixed
3) Mix all purpose flour, cocoa powder and baking powder in a separate bowl. taking about 3 tbsp out to cover the chocolate chips with flour
4) Stir in the dry ingredients with the creamed butter and sugar to form a cookie dough. Then fold in the floured chocolate chips until well incorporated. Arrange teaspoons of balls on the tray and flatten them out with the back of a spoon

5) Bake for 12 minutes, let cool in the tray for a few minutes then transfer onto a cooling rack to cool completely

White Chocolate Macadamia Cookies

August 24, 2012

Ingredients
220g unsalted butter, softened
1 cup castor sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups plain flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 cup white chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped raw macadamia nuts

Instructions
1) Preheat oven to 170'c
2) Cream the butter with castor sugar and brown sugar until soft. Add in eggs and vanilla, continue mixing until smooth
3) Add in flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Mix until the dry ingredients are well incorporated with the wet mixture
4) In a separate bowl, lightly coat the choc chips and chopped nuts with a handful of flour. This is to ensure they do not sink to the bottom of the pan when baking
5) Stir the chips and nuts into the dough. Drop round balls of dough on your baking sheets. Bake for 9-11 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes before transferring onto a wire rack to cool completely

Chewy Mars Cookies

August 15, 2012

Ingredients
2 cups plain flour
3 tbsp cocoa powder
2/3 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup castor sugar
170g unsalted butter, soften at room temp
1 large egg
1 large egg yolk
1 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/4 baking soda
8 mini Mars or 2 1/2 of the regular bar

Instructions
1) Ensure the butter and eggs are at room temp. Don't let the butter be too soft though. Preheat oven to 170'c, line or lightly grease baking tray

2) Chop up the Mars into small pieces

3) Beat the butter with an electric mixer for about 1 minute, add in the sugars, continue beating until fluffy for about 2-3 minutes. Add in the eggs and vanilla essence, continue mixing for another 2 minutes until smooth
4) In a different bowl pour in the flour then take out 3 tbsp of it and replace with 3 tbsp of cocoa powder. Whisk together with the baking powder and salt.
5) Add in the chopped Mars and mix it in the flour mixture so that they are coated with flour. Take the Mars out, shake any excess flour back into the bowl and set aside. This is to make sure the mars don't sink to the bottom while baking
6) Then gradually pour the dry mixture into the wet mixture while continue mixing until it forms a cookie dough
7) Add and stir in the floured Mars pieces. It will get harder to stir at this point bc the Mars makes the dough stickier, but exert extra energy to spread the Mars evenly
8) Use an ice cream scoop or a tablespoon to scoop balls of dough onto a baking tray, then flatten them down with your fingers. Don't put too much on one tray as the cookies spread wide

9) Bake for 14 minutes, leave to cool on tray for 10 minutes then transfer to wire rack to cool completely

Soft M&M's Cookies

August 08, 2012

Ingredients
2 cups plain flour
2/3 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup castor sugar
170g unsalted butter, soften at room temp
1 large egg
1 large egg yolk
1 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/4 tsp baking soda
160g Milk Choc M&M's

Instructions
1) Ensure the butter and eggs are at room temp. Don't let the butter be too soft though. Preheat oven to 170'c, line or lightly grease baking tray
2) Beat the butter with an electric mixer for about 1 minute, add in the sugars, continue beating until fluffy for about 2-3 minutes. Add in the eggs and vanilla essence, continue mixing for another 2 minutes until smooth
3) In a different bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda and salt together. Then gradually pour the dry mixture into the wet mixture while continue mixing until it forms a cookie dough
4) Use an ice cream scoop or a tablespoon to scoop balls of dough onto a baking tray, then flatten them down with your fingers. Don't put too much on one tray as the cookies spread wide

5) Arrange the M&M's on top of the cookie dough closely. Bake in the oven for 14 minutes, turn the tray half way

Soft Choc Chip Cookies with Choc Ganache Drizzle

May 18, 2012

Ingredients
2 1/4 cup of all purpose flour
1/2 tsp of baking soda
1 cup of butter, softened
1/2 cup of castor sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs
2 cups of semisweet/milk chocolate chips
1 tsp salt

Instructions
1) Heat the oven to 180'c and line a baking tray with baking paper
2) In a bowl, whisk together flour and baking soda
3) Combine both sugars and butter into an electronic mixing bowl and mix on medium speed until light and fluffy
4) Reduce speed and add in salt, eggs and vanilla extract for about a minute
5) Add flour, cup by cup, not all at once. And when its well mixed, stir in the chips by hand

6) Now since these are soft cookies, its best that they are big in size. Place heaping TABLESPOON sized dough onto the baking paper. Make sure the space between each dough balls all approximately 1.5-2 inch apart. If they're too far apart, they'll be too flatten out. But if they're too close, they'll stick to one another
7) Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes until the edges are brown but the centres are still soft. Leave to cool on the tray for 10 minutes before transferring onto a cooling rack

8) Wait until they are cooled completely before drizzling the Chocolate Ganache. I just used the leftover from the Mud Cake I made earlier. Click on the links for the recipe

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