Chewy Double Chocolate Cookies

Yea, yea, we know! Yet another cookie recipe but we are on the hunt for the perfect cookie! These are old school double chocolate chewy cookies which will leave you drooling! Fantastic served hot out of the oven with a cold glass of milk. These cookies are dead easy and for a lighter softer cookie try using cake flour instead of the old standard all purpose flour.

Chewy Double Chocolate Cookies

1/2 cup of butter/margarine 

1/2 cup of brown sugar

1/4 cup of caster sugar

1 egg

Vanilla Essence/Sugar

1 1/4 cups of flour

1/2 teaspoon of baking soda

2 heaped table spoons of unsweetend coca powder

a pinch of salt

75 grams of Cooking chocolate roughly chopped 

OPTIONAL: chopped nuts

Pre-Heat the oven to 180 degrees celsius or 375 degrees fahrenheit. Cream the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg and the vanilla. This should form a batter like substance make sure there are no lumps and its completely smooth. In a separate bowl mix the flour, baking soda, coca powder and salt. Slowly sieve in the flour mixture into the butter mixture, keep mixing throughout to keep a nice consistency. 

When you have a semi-dough formed its time to add the chocolate chips/chunks and if you are using nuts you add them now. This mixture makes a slightly sticky wet dough but thats fine it forms wonderfully moist cookies.

On a baking tray form your cookies using table spoons to make rough round shapes. By using a spoon rather than your hands you can have a more regular size. Depending on the size of your cookies you can make around 15 with this recipe.

There! Done! EASY AS PIE! =D

Bake for around 20 mins, or until you can stick a fork into the centre and it comes out clean!

VEGAN Apple Cinnamon Cookies

ok ok we realize that you guys may have noticed that we are cookie obsessed but a friend is vegan and has yet to sample our culinary powers! So we developed a new recipe which is perfect! not a single animal was harmed in the making of these cookies!

Vegan Apple Cinnamon Cookies 

(makes around 15-20)

-2 Cups of flour (is amount may vary depending on how moist your apples are) 

-1 tbsp Baking Powder

-1/2 tbsp Baking soda

-1/4 Brown sugar

-1 heaped tbs of vanilla sugar

-1/4 tbsp fine salt

-1/4 oats

-1/3 cup of maple syrup

-1/4 cup of vegetable oil

-1 apple (preferably granny smiths)

Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius or 375 degrees Fahrenheit.

In a mixing bowl mix in the dry ingredients then when thoroughly mixed stir in the syrup and oil. Cut the apple in half and core it. Grate one half and add it to the mixture. Cut up the remaining half into small cubes then add that to the mixture. If the mixture is too wet add a little more flour. Or vice versa if the mixture is too dry add a teaspoon of maple syrup and oil. 

On a baking tray lined with baking paper portion out the cookies, depending the size of the cookies you can make around 15-20 cookies. Bake for around 15 mins until golden brown.