Best Choc Chip Biscuit recipes please ..........

[smiles4u]

Hello all,

Well, as some of you may have noticed i've been on a baking frenzy since Winter hit & also since my 3 year old DD has taken a huge interest in baking/cooking (need her to be my slave cook at some point, LOL )

So, i bought a pkt of Cadbury milk choc chips today & made me wonder would anyone care to share their Favourite Chocolate Chip Biscuit/Cookie recipes

Also What is your favourite brand of Chocolate Chips ?? ... eg, Nestle, Cadbury, generic brands, ... milk, dark or white choc

TIA for any kind replies

[Phteven]

These are Nigella's choc-chip biscuits.

I don't really bake with chocolate much because I find it really hard to find free trade chocolate & cocoa for cooking

INTRODUCTION

I call these my best friend Choc Chip cookies because my best friend who I absolutely adore gave me the recipe. It makes around 60 cookies depending on the size you choose to make. So easy and so yummmmyyy!!! You will love them!

INGREDIENTS

500g Butter
12 tablespoons caster sugar
1 tin (400g) sweet and condensed milk
4 and 1/2 cups self raising flour
2 packets of milk chocolate chips (500g)
Serving Size : Around 60 cookies

METHOD


1. Cream the butter and sugar
2. Stir in the sweet and condensed milk.
3. Add the flour and choc chips and stir to combine.
4. Roll balls of the mixture how big or small as you wish. I usually use around a tablespoon as a guide.
5. Place the balls on a tray lined with greaseproof paper.
6. Flatten balls slightly with a fork.
7. Bake in a 180 degree oven for around 8 minutes depending on the size. Use the first tray as a guide as to how long to bake. You are after just a tiny bit of golden brown.

[Rouge]

I actually don't use chips... I prefer melts or chunks...

I made the yummiest choc chip recipe the other night and I added ovaltine to the dough... YUM!

Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies - Originally from Coconut & Lime Blog


Ingredients:
1 cup plus 6 tablespoons flour
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla
8 oz semisweet chips (I used Hershey's Special Dark chips)

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350. Lightly spray one cookie sheet with spray oil. In a medium sized bowl combine flour, salt, and baking soda. In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla and combine thoroughly. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the sweetened butter. Once combined, add chips and distribute evenly using the mixer on the lowest setting. Form cookies by dropping 1 teaspoon of dough on the sheet two inches apart. Smoosh them down a little then bake until light brown, about 12 minutes. Let cool if possible then serve with plenty of cold milk.

Yields: aprox. 2 dozen cookies, depending on size

I often mix it up and use a third white, a third dark and a third milk. But basically any chocolate, even lindt (whatever we have) gets used in choc chip cookies. And IMO brown sugar is a MUST in cookies... it just makes them chewy and delicious!

[~Kim~]

I'm with Rouge, chunks are much better....but hey any kind will do.
Made these yesterday....and they're all gone

Bill Granger's Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Makes 18

150g firlmy packed soft brown sugar
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
4 tablespoons crunchy peanut butter
1 egg
1 tablespoon natural vanilla extract
155g plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
100g good quality milk chocolate, chopped

Preheat the oven to 190 degrees. Line two baking trays with baking paper. Beat the sugar, butter and peanut butter with electric beaters until pale and creamy. Add the egg and vanilla and beat until well combined. Sift together the flour and baking powder, fold into the mixture and then stir in the chocolate.

Take heaped tablespoons of dough and roll into balls with your hands. Flatten them slightly and arrange on the trays, leaving some room for spreading. Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until golden brown (the cookies will be soft until they cool). Cool on a wire rack and then store in an airtight container.

[mbear]

I actually don't use chips... I prefer melts or chunks...

.me too...


One Cup Cookies
1 cup plain flour
1 cup sugar (caster or brown)
1 cup oats (rolled or quick)
1 cup choc chips/chunks and pecans (I had 3/4 cup chocolate and 1/4 cup chopped pecans)
125g melted butter

Throw it all together....roll into balls, cook mod oven for 15-20 mins. Leave for 5-10mins afterwards to go hard...

Ive been on a bit of a cooking frenzy of late myself...until yesterday...my DH told me he is the heaviest he has ever been in his life....time to stop now me thinks...

[Butterfly Child]

this recipe is from taste.com its really nice one

Double choc chip biscuits
Ingredients

• 1/2 cup white choc bits
• 1/2 cup dark choc bits
• 1 quantity basic butter biscuit dough (see related recipe)

Method

1. Follow steps 1 to 2 for making Basic butter biscuit dough. Add white and dark choc bits. Using hands, knead dough to evenly distribute the choc bits.
2. Using 1 heaped tablespoon of mixture at a time, roll mixture into balls. Place on baking trays lined with baking paper. Using the heel of your hand, flatten biscuits slightly (allow room for spreading).
3. Bake for 15 to 18 minutes, swapping trays over in oven after 10 minutes, or until light golden. Allow biscuits to cool on trays for 5 minutes. Transfer to wire racks to cool completely. Serve.

[smiles4u]

Yeh, my sister makes her's with chunks of chocolate ... i love her's when especially not long out of the oven when warm not hot .... ooooh soooo yummo

I got the choc chips thinking better for my DD if she wants to have a nibble with her little teeth ... but then she can bite into the rare given Freddo Frog from Grandma with no probs, LOL

Keep the recipes coming gals ... So far some brilliant ones there

[~Kim~]

Ive been on a bit of a cooking frenzy of late myself...until yesterday...my DH told me he is the heaviest he has ever been in his life....time to stop now me thinks...

lol bit OT, but mbear have you been in my house...we had this exact discussion today lol

[smiles4u]

LOL ... my DP hasn't said anything as of YET ... but i have seen the raised eyebrow in a kindish manner & lately he has been hitting the usual dusty treadmill in the garage

(Oh, Kim ... Cendrine starts 3year old Kinder tomorrow can't believe my one & only baby has grown so quickly for the day to come ... i feel sad but excited FOR HER at the same time as she is so lively & loves to be around people of any age ... she said to me before her bedtime tonight "Mummy will you miss me" and i said "Yes, i will miss you but i am very happy you are going to Kinder because you are going to have a wonderful time there " )

[Crystalwings]

I made these today, easy and yummy. My mums recipe.

125g choc chips (1/2 packet)
2 cups SR flour
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
125g marg or butter
1 egg

Cream marg and sugar. Add egg and choc chips, mix well. Stir in flour.
Roll into balls and place on a lined tray. Press down with a floured fork and bake for 20mins. Will be soft but harden when cooled. Walnuts on top are also nice.

[smiles4u]

Well, i couldn't decide on a recipe as so many yummy choices ... then low & behold i look on the back of the pkt of Cadbury Milk Choc Chips i purchased the other day & there's a recipe so i had a go at that today ... They are are ok i mean they DO taste nice BUT i like my choc chip cookies a bit on the raised side as these were very flat ... and i think i prefer them looking dark not like vanilla IYKWIM, maybe might add cocoa powder next time

Here's the recipe if interested ;

Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies

125g butter (i used unsalted butter from Aldi)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup caster sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 egg
1 & 1/2 Cups SR flour
3/4 cup Cadbury Milk Chocolate Chips

1. Preheat oven to 160C (my oven i needed to bake at 170C).
2.Cream butter & sugars until light & fluffy.
3.Mix in the vanilla essence & egg.
4.Stir in flour until combined.
5.Add choc chips.
6.Place teaspoons of mixture on greased baking tray & bake in moderate oven for 10-15mins (I placed on baking paper on baking tray & I baked for them 15mins ... Be warned don't put too many on tray as these spread heaps).

[Lulu]

One Cup Cookies
1 cup plain flour
1 cup sugar (caster or brown)
1 cup oats (rolled or quick)
1 cup choc chips/chunks and pecans (I had 3/4 cup chocolate and 1/4 cup chopped pecans)
125g melted butter

Did this today YUMMY!!

[mbear]

lol bit OT, but mbear have you been in my house...we had this exact discussion today lol

He can hardly blame me...its not like i shove them in his mouth and make him eat them....sheeshhhhhhhh.

He sternly told me today if i bake anything to hide it....no fun at all ...

[smiles4u]

Lulu ... hey woman you read my mind as i was thinking to try the one with rolled oats next time ... How did you make 'em ? eg, with pecans & which oats - rolled ?

[~Kim~]

Lorelle, I hope she had the funnest day today!

mbear - I've been banned - pooey to him I say

[smiles4u]

Oh, Kim ... your timing is brilliant as i just moments ago put up a thread about her 1st Kinder day today ... You must check it out as maybe you can shed some light too, would so love your opinion/suggestions in our having a child of the same age too

[{sarah}]

One Cup Cookies
1 cup plain flour
1 cup sugar (caster or brown)
1 cup oats (rolled or quick)
1 cup choc chips/chunks and pecans (I had 3/4 cup chocolate and 1/4 cup chopped pecans)
125g melted butter

Throw it all together....roll into balls, cook mod oven for 15-20 mins. Leave for 5-10mins afterwards to go hard...

Do you find these ones a bit difficult to roll? I just made them this morning because I wanted some cookies but had no eggs. I found them really dry & hard to roll into balls. I managed & they are in the oven, but just wondered if anyone else had the same problem?

[Lisa]

This is my favourite recipe. It is great because it doesn't have any eggs in it.
It is always a huge success here. I have changed it up a few times and added apricots & white choc (which are sooooo good) but I mostly use the milk choc melts when making regular choc chip cookies.

Lisa's Choc Chip Cookies
• 250g butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 can condensed milk
• 3 cups sifted self raising flour
• 1 packet of milk chocolate chips

Cream together the butter and sugar. Add condensed milk, flour, chocolate chips. Mix through. Roll into balls, place on biscuit tray and bake for 12-15 minutes at 190C. Yum!

This also freezes quite well. I form the dough into a log, wrap in cling wrap and freeze. Then when it is needed, we cut into the appropriate size, roll into balls & cook.