These are the nicest chocolate chip cookies I’ve found and I’ve tested a lot!!! You can make them the size of normal biscuits or larger if you prefer. I find that the amount of dough that the recipe makes can be divided intwo. Freeze half in a sausage shape for another day, and bake the remaining half for instant gratification! You should get approximately 24 normal-sized biscuits from half the mix.

Ingredients

2 cups plus 2 tablespoons plain flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup butter, melted and cooled

1 cup soft brown sugar

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1 large plus 1 small egg approximately

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup chocolate chips

1 cup chopped walnuts  (optional)

How to Make Them

1. Beat butter and sugar together until blended and smooth.
2. Mix in eggs and vanilla extract.
3. Add flour, baking powder and salt and mix until just combined.
4. Stir in the chocolate chips and walnuts if used.
5. Lay silicone shets on your baking trays (you’ll need 2 trays or bake in 2 batches). Set oven to 325F /170C / Fan oven 160C / Gas Mark 3
6. Place dessert spoonfuls evenly on baking sheet. (Scoop up the dough with the dessert spoon and scrape it out onto the sheet with a teaspoon. It will spread out flat as it bakes, so no need to flatten the heaps!
7. Bake in centre of oven for about 15 minutes (check after 10 mins). They should be just a pale golden brown, not dark.
8. Remove from oven and cool on a rack. They will crisp up as they cool. If you want them chewy you will need to make bigger biscuits and take out of the oven when very pale.

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Ingredients

2 cups Plain flour

2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda

2 cups shredded carrots

1 cup dessicated coconut

1 cup chopped walnuts (if you like)

1 8oz can crushed pineapple (i/2 small can)

1 cup raisins

3 eggs

3/4 cup buttermilk (add a tablespoon of lemon juice to ordinary milk and leave to stand for 5 mins).

3/4 cup vegetable or sunflower oil

1 1/4 cups caster sugar

2 teaspoons cinnamon

pinch salt

2 teaspoons vanilla essence

How to make it

1. Preheat oven to 350F / 175C / 165C Fan oven
2. Sift together flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and cinnamon.
3. In a large bowl combine eggs, buttermilk, oil, sugar and vanilla essence. Mix well.
4. Add the flour moxture to the egg mixture.
5. In another bowl combine carrots, coconut, walnuts, pineapple and raisins. Mix wel.
6. Add the carrot mixture to the flour mixture. Mix well.
7. Pour into 8″ x 12″ pan and bake for 1 hour, till skewer comes out clean.
8. Leave for at least 20 mins to set before cutting.

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