Recipe: Chocolate Chip Cookies

Makes 20

Ingredients

• 125g (4 oz) butter, softened
  
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 cup plain flour
• 1 cup self raising flour
• 1 cup dessicated coconut
• 250g (8 oz) chopped chocolate or chocolate chips
  

Method

1. Place butter, vanilla extract and sugar in a bowl and then beat until creamy.
2. Beat egg into mixture and then stir through flours, coconut and chocolate.
   
3. Roll 2 tablespoons of mixture at a time into balls.
4. Place balls on lined baking trays and flatten a little.
   
5. Bake in preheated oven at 190 degrees celsius.
   
6. Cool on trays if you can bear to leave them to cool!