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Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients
  • Maida - 1 cup
  • Whole Wheat Flour - 1 cup
  • Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp
  • Salt -  a pinch
  • Unsalted Butter - 100 gms: (in room temperature)
  • Brown Sugar - 1/2 cup
  • Sugar - 1/2 cup
  • Egg - 1 (in room temperature)
  • Vanilla Essence - 1/2 tsp
  • Chocolate Chips - 1 cup
Preparation Method
  1. Seive together maida, wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and keep aside.
  2. Powder brown sugar and sugar and keep aside.
  3. In glass bowl, soften the butter with a hand-held whisk.
  4. Add powdered sugar and mix till the butter-sugar mix become creamy.
  5. Add egg and vanilla essence; mix till the it become creamy.
  6. Gradually add the flour and combine with whisk.
  7. Add chocolate chips and combine with whisk or hands and make a thick dough.
  8. Refrigerate the dough atleast for one hour.
  9. Preheat the oven at 180degree C for 10mins:
  10. Line the cookie tray with butter paper.
  11. Place one scoop or lemon sized dough in the baking tray.
  12. Bake the dough in oven at 180degree C for 10-12mins: (till the sides of the cookies become brown).
  13. Remove from oven, place the cookes in wire rack and allow it cool down completely.
  14. Keep the crispy outside, chewy inside Chcocolate Chip Cookies in an air-tight glass jar and/or enjoy with a cup of milk.

Notes:
  • If you are using salted butter, avoid using salt in the dough.
  • If the brown sugar is not available, you can use 1 cup white sugar; but the color of the cookies become light yellow.
  • You can use 2 cups of maida; but I used equal quantity of maida and wheat flour to make to cookies healthy.
  • While removing from oven, the cookies will be soft; allow it to cool down completely, cookies will become crispy and chewy.
  • Refrigerating the dough is mandatory as refrigeration will give nice texture to cookies.
  • You can keep the dough in refrigerate for about 2 weeks.

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