Chocolate heaven - quadruple chocolate chunk cookies (Baking)

Member Name: emma_charis

Product:	Baking
Date:	06/03/09 (114 review reads)
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Advantages: Easy to make, simple ingredients, tasty treat.

Disadvantages: All the chocolate can be expensive, especially if you buy fairtrade.

This is a recipe I made up when I was about 15, and have been baking it for my hungry sisters and friends ever since! It's a really simple recipe and doesn't need anything more than the standard baking ingredients most of us already have in the cupboard, especially if you like to bake. They're always gone very quickly when I make them and it's one of the treats my sister always requests when she sees me - when she was 13 she told me all she wanted for her birthday from me was a very large tub of them!

Quadruple chocolate chunk cookies (the fourth chocolate is from the cocoa powder)

Makes around a dozen, depending on size.

200g plain flour
100g caster sugar
165g dark soft brown sugar
50g cocoa powder
1 tspn bicarbonate of soda
¼ tspn salt
200g marg or butter (I like Stork)
1 tspn good vanilla extract
1 free range egg
100g good quality milk chocolate, chopped into rough chunks - how big or small is up to you, but I tend to do chunks rather than chips.
100g good quality dark chocolate, chopped roughly as above.
100g good quality white chocolate, chopped roughly as above.

Preheat oven to gas mark 4, and place on a baking tray some greased baking paper.
Cream marg/butter together with caster and brown sugars.
Sieve in flour, cocoa powder and bicarb soda, and fold in gently.
Beat egg with vanilla extract in a cup, then stir into mixture with the chopped chocolate.
Dollop spoonfuls on the mixture onto the greased paper. The mix spreads out while baking so smallish dollops are best, evenly spaced and not too close together. Don't worry about making them smooth before you put them in the oven, the baking smooths them out into circles anyway.
Place on the middle shelf of the oven and bake for approx 20 minutes. If you prefer your cookies crunchier then 25 minutes is fine, but 20 will leave them softer and chewier.
As you can't fit too many on one baking sheet these cookies need to be baked in batches. The anticipation is good for you!

Now...enjoy! I've had great feedback from these so hopefully you'll like them too - happy baking :)

Summary: Tasty, easy recipe that's very bad for the waistline. You know you want to!