Chewy Cookie Recipe

I've always said that one of the things I miss most about England is the food, don't get me wrong, the food here is amazing and we certainly eat a lot healthier but when you get a craving for a donut or something you can pretty much get it 24/7, in Switzerland however, you either have to get that craving within store opening times or make it yourself! 
One thing that I LOVE that I have seen here are 'american style' chewy cookies, I'm not much of a baker (I'm all about the savoury carbs) but I decided to give these a go! 

This recipe makes a whole load of cookies, I forgot to count but I would say approx 25 depending on your portion sizes! 

Ingredients:
170g Butter (Softened) 
150g Brown Sugar
50g Regular Granulated Sugar
1 Egg
1 Sachet Vanilla Sugar (Dr Oetker)
250g  All Purpose Flour
2 Tsp Maizena (Cornflour)
1 Tsp Bicarbonate of Soda 
1/2 Tsp Salt
100g Milk Chocolate (I used a bar and cut into chunks)

Method:

1. Start by beating the Butter until creamy, you can use a mixer but I just used a wooden spoon (burning off some calories before gorging on cookies!)
Then, add the Brown and the White Sugar and beat them together, the desired texture is 'fluffy'.

2. Then, mix the egg in, it'll be a lot easier to mix with the moisture from the Egg, when fully mixed, add the sachet of Vanilla Sugar and keep on stirring!

3. In a separate bowl, mix together the Flour, Bicarbonate of Soda, Maizena and salt, then you can slowly add this mixture to the 'wet mixture', I suggest adding a small amount and mixing it in then repeating, as this cookie dough will become very thick and you can everything to be throughly mixed together. 

4. Now, you need to put some foil over the dough and pop it in the fridge for about an hour, this is very important! Whilst you wait for the dough to chill, you can clean up the existing mess and also chop the chocolate into chunks!

5. After an hour, preheat the oven to 180 Celsius. Line a baking tray with some greaseproof paper (Note: the tray always has to be room temperature, the cookies will not be nice and chewy if you place them on a hot tray!)

6. Mix the chocolate into the cookie dough, the dough should be quite hard at this point. 

7. When the dough is ready, rough the doll into individual balls, about the size of a 5franc piece! Place the balls on the tray (they will flatten down in the oven) and Cook for about 9-11 minutes until they are ever so slightly golden around the edges.

8. Allow to cool down and enjoy! 

These cookies will keep for a couple of days in an airtight container but, they are always better fresh! Half the ingredients if you want a smaller batch you could even split the dough and freeze half of it/keep it in the fridge!

I hope you enjoy making this recipe! Let me know if you tried any other fun flavours!

Thanks for reading! Yasmin x