Lottie's Cookies

 Revision has given me a serious craving for Millie's Cookies, after scouring the internet and recipe books I've found what I think is the closest yet..

 

These are the easiest, chewiest, yummiest cookies with a good amount of chocolate. There are two things that can ruin a cookie for me, it being too crunchy, and it having a poor dough : chocolate chip ratio, so to me these are perfect.

125g softened butter
100g light brown sugar
125g caster sugar
1 beaten egg
1 tsp. vanilla extract
225g self raising flour
A pinch of salt
250g chocolate (or more if you'd like!)

Makes 10 large cookies.

Start by creaming the sugars and the butter together so that it's nice and smooth,

Then add your egg and the vanilla.
Chop up your chocolate, you could use chocolate chips, in fact the cookies would be great with a mix of all three chocolates in, but I'm using a 200g bar of milk chocolate and then 50g of dark chocolate. I've chopped mine rather loosely to get nice big hunks o'chocolate.

Sift in your flour and only half mix it in, then sprinkle in the chocolate chunks, this is to avoid over mixing.

Grab a fistful of the mixture, roll it into a ball, then squash it down, but leave good sized spaces between the cookies as they will get bigger!

Bung these in the oven for about 10 mins at about 200 Celsius if you want them really chewy or 15 mins if you want a balance between crunchy and chewy.

 

 

 

 

They'd also be really, really good sandwiched together with some Ben and Jerry's, sorry if I've ruined any diets!