I have this desire to make double chocolate chip cookies. And I want to make the perfect one. Yesterday I decided to give it all another try. The results are as follows:

Experiment #1:

I decide to make a mix of 200 gram self-raising flour(flour+bakingsoda), 100 gram cacao, 150grams of sugar,  200 grams of butter (margerine), .1 egg and about 100grams of chocolate chips (70%).

Attempt #1: Horriby  dry, can’t say why. but not fit for consumption.

Attempt #2: Added 50grams of butter, the mixture got a lot more sticky, results where less dry but nothing specia.

Attempt #3: by now the ammount of dough shrinked considerably but I decided to add another egg. Result: quite eggy cake like chocolate chip cookies. not bad at all. Ofcourse at this point I’ve got no idea what the right ammounts are

Attempt #4: Added more flour as number #3 was really sticky, result: more cookie like cookies. Also not bad, but a bit bitter. And not a clue on how to reproduce. I fail at science.

Experiment #2:

Attempt #1: 200 grams of self-raising flour, 150 grams of granulated sugar, 250 grams of butter, 100 grams of cacao, 2 eggs and 100 grams of chocolate chips (70%). Result: Good structure, but not very tasty, still a bit dry and bitterish.

Attempt #2: Added another 100 grams of sugar. Result: Sweet. :) Structure is quite good although they stay fluid quite long after taking them out of the oven.

Making Chocolate Chip Cookies was a plan for quite a while now, I actually already had the chocolate chips arround.

I finally decided to bake some. Googled arround a bit, mixed some recipes, and came up with the following:

Ingredients:

• Brown Sugar, 190 gramms
• Granulated Sugar, 90 gramms
• Butter (or margerine), 210 gramms
• Egg, 1
• Salt, A pinch
• Chocolate Chips, 320 gramms
• Self Raising Flour(flour with baking soda), 210g

Preparation:

• Pre-heat the oven to 190 degrees Celcius.
• Knead the butter, sugar and egg.
• Mix in the flour and salt.
• Mix in the Chocolate Chips.
• Make small balls out of the dough with 2 table spoons.
• Place the balls on the bakin plate and keep about 4-5cm apart
• Place in the oven for 8-10 minutes.
• Let the cookies cool down.

Makes about 25-30 cookies.

This how my (slightly failed) cookies look like:

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