Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup flour (maida)

1/2 tsp baking powder

75 gms butter

1/2 cup chocochips

2 tbsp rice flour

6 tbsp castor sugar

1 tsp vanila essence

milk (as required)

Method:

• Sift the maida, baking powder and rice flour and keep aside.
• Mix the butter and sugar and whisk for 5-10 mins till its light and fluffy. Add vanilla essence.
• Mix the maida mixture and the butter with the help of a beater.
• Add the chocochips to the mixture and gather the flour with the help of hands to make a soft dough. Add milk if required.
• Roll the dough of 1/8" thickness and cut with the help of a cookie cutter. Prick the cookies with the help of a fork.
• Place the cookies on a baking tray and bake in a preheated over at 155 degree centigrade for 30 mins.
• Remove the cookies from the oven. Place the cookies on a wire rack and let them cool.
• Store in an airtight container once they are cooled.

Tips:

• You can use ready-made chocochips or chop the dark chocolate.
• Add one teaspoon of milk at a time to make the dough.
• You can use white butter instead of butter.
• Once the cookies are out from the oven, let them rest for 10 minutes, then with the help of spatula transfer them on a wire rack.
• Each oven has its own way of functioning, you will have to try out a few times before you start to understand. I have a small oven. If your oven is of a medium size you may have to bake the cookies at 160 degree centigrade for 25-30 mins.
• You can put a plastic or a cling film on the rolling board and then cover the dough again with the plastic or cling film and roll. This will make it easy.
• You may also make small ball place them on the aking try and with help of the back of a bowl press the ball of dough to make a cookie.
• All the ingredients should be at room temperature.
• The above recipe makes 15 cookies.