Ginger Chocolate Chip Cookies
Easy Cookie Recipe that can be varied. Here used to make Ginger Chocolate Chip Cookies
Servings: 18 biscuits
Calories: 207kcal
Ingredients
- 150 g unsalted butter softened
- 150 g soft light brown sugar you can use all caster sugar for a lighter biscuit
- 100 g caster sugar
- 1 large egg
- 240 g plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 50 g Opies stem ginger chopped into small pieces
- 100 g good quality chocolate chips
- 1 pinch salt
Instructions
- Put the sugars and the softened butter into the largest mixing bowl you have
- Cream together, either with a wooden spoon or (preferably) with an electric whisk till you have a smooth mixture that has lightened a little in colour.
- Add the egg and mix well with the electric whisk
- Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into the mixture
- Using a spatula or metal spoon, fold the mixture together till you have a cohesive dough
- Stir through the chocolate chips and chopped ginger
- Cut out two large pieces of cling film
- Divide the dough roughly in half and put a piece of dough on each sheet of cling film
- Spread them out into a rough log shape with your hands or with a spoon
- Use the clingfilm to roll up into sausages, making sure there's an inch or so of film at each end of each sausage to seal up the rolls
- Put the sausages in the fridge and chill until firm - around an hour minimum
- Set the oven to 175c and line a baking tray with baking parchment or silicon film
- Take one sausage out and slice off around 1/2cm (1/4 inch) rounds. You only need to cut the number of cookies you want to bake. You can store any remaining dough in the fridge in clingfilm or freeze it
- Bake the cookies in the oven for 10-15 minutes till they are a golden brown at the edge.
- Take the tray out of the oven and allow the cookies to cool for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack
- Eat while warm or allow to cool completely before storing in an airtight tin
Notes
Variations:
- For chocolate chip cookies, use 150g chocolate chips and a teaspoon of vanilla essence. Add the vanilla with the egg.
- For double chocolate chip cookies, proceed as for chocolate chip cookies but replace 50g of flour with cocoa powder
- For plain cookies, just add a teaspoon of vanilla essence with the egg.
- For ginger cookies, add a teaspoon of ground ginger to the flour and use up to 100g of stem ginger.
Nutrition
Calories: 207kcal | Carbohydrates: 29g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 29mg | Sodium: 32mg | Potassium: 52mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 223IU | Calcium: 22mg | Iron: 1mg