Vintage chocolate chip cookies recipe | Good Food

Method

step 1
Heat the oven to 190C/fan170C/gas 5 and line two baking sheets with non-stick baking paper.
step 2
Put 150g softened salted butter, 80g light brown muscovado sugar and 80g granulated sugar into a bowl and beat until creamy.
step 3
Beat in 2 tsp vanilla extract and 1 large egg.
step 4
Sift 225g plain flour, ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda and ¼ tsp salt into the bowl and mix it in with a wooden spoon.
step 5
Add 200g plain chocolate chips or chunks and stir well.
step 6
Use a teaspoon to make small scoops of the mixture, spacing them well apart on the baking trays. This mixture should make about 30 cookies.
step 7
Bake for 8–10 mins until they are light brown on the edges and still slightly soft in the centre if you press them.
step 8
Leave on the tray for a couple of mins to set and then lift onto a cooling rack.