Chocolate Cookie Recipe

Hey guys,
Today I'm going to be sharing my cookie recipe with you. I like to make these on Sundays as a mid-morning snack so I thought I'd tell you today how I make them! Let me know below if you like this type of post and I can do more of these baking or cooking posts. Also, email me at pinkcupcake7blog@yahoo.com what posts you'd like to see in the future.

This recipe makes roughly 20 cookies depending on how big you make them.
Ingredients:

• 1 Egg
• 2oz/ 50g Caster Sugar
• 6oz/350g Plain Flour
• 4oz/300g Softened Butter or Margarine 
• 3oz/75g Brown Sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon Salt
• 1/2 teaspoon Bicarbonate Soda
• 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Essence
• 4oz Chocolate/Chocolate Chips (Dark, Milk or Light)

Materials:

• Kitchen Roll or Greaseproof paper
• Large Bowl
• 2 Small bowls
• 3 Baking Trays
• Cooling Rack
• Measuring spoons
• Teaspoons
• Large Serving Spoon
• Whisk
• Wooden Spoon
• Cup

1. Preheat your oven to 180c/ 350f. Now in a your biggest bowl, add the butter or margarine, caster sugar and brown sugar.

2. Beat them all together until the mixture is fully mixed together.

3. Now in another bowl, measure out your flour and add it to the large bowl. Also add the bicarb or soda, vanilla essence and salt into the big bowl.

4. Mix it all together, slowly adding an egg that you have whisked in with it, this will make it easier to mix.

5. Once you have mixed all of this together, add the chocolate chips or break the chocolate and add that. It doesn't matter what kind of chocolate, its your personal preference. I've chosen to add milk chocolate.

6. Mix the chocolate chips in and make sure that the mixture is completely mixed together.

7. Now take your trays and either cover them with greaseproof paper, oil them or rub butter on them. This will stop the cookies from sticking to the tray. I greased them with kitchen roll and the margarine I used previously.

8. Then use your teaspoons to scoop the cookie mixture onto the tray. Don't make them too big because they will get larger in the oven, bare that in mind and put them evenly spread apart on the tray too so that they don't all merge into one in the oven. If they do, just use a knife to cut them apart, they'll still taste the same.

9. Now put them in the oven for around 10 minutes or bake them until golden. I like to check them regularly to make sure they don't burn and I can control how they are. Before taking them out the oven, check if they are still doughy in the middle.

10. Now using a spatular or knife, put them on the cooling rack and leave them to cool down. Now you should have some cookies! These may not always turn out looking great depending on how you put them on your tray but don't throw them in the bin, they taste delicious!

I hope you liked this post, its a bit different from my usual ones. Let me know if you did like it and I'lll do more!

xoxo PinkCupcake xoxo

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March Favourites

So its the time of month again for March favourites and I've had a lot of favourites this month but not all too many beauty ones. There aren't as many products in this months favourite post but I've still got a few.

1. Homemade Lipsticks
So if you saw my 'How To: Making Lipstick' post then you'll know that recently I've made my own lipsticks. I really love that method and its so much cheaper than buying lipsticks. It's so fun too, I definitely recommend it.

2. Maryland Gooeys Chocolate Cookies
I love chocolate and I love cookies so when I saw these maryland cookies that had melted chocolate on the inside, I was desperate to try them out. They are so delicious. They're my new favourite biscuits.

3. Candles
I've been into candles from the beginning of this year as you know but this month, I've purchased lots more candles and tealights which I love so they have to make it into my favourites post once again.

4. Witch Pore Minimising Foaming Cleanser
This is a nice foaming cleanser that I use twice a week as well as my normal cleanser. I really like this because I feel that it helps keep my skin clear. As for pores, I'm not so sure it minimises them because I have quite large pores and I find it very difficult to find products that help that but I ill repurchase this because it helps clear my skin.

5. Dove Nourishing Hair Care Condtioner
I've started to use conditioner in the ends of my hair and I really like it. I love this shampoo and conditioner.

6. Fashion Magazines
Recently I've been really into the fashion magazines. I've been purchasing Seventeen, Teen Vogue, Glamour and Company magazine. I really enjoy reading these. In the future I might do a fashion magazine comparison. If you'd like that, let me know.

7. #Nomakeupselfie for Cancer Research.

I've really loved the huge amounts that the no makeup selfies have been raising. In the first 24 hours it raised £2million which is such a big amount. I think its such a nice way to raise money to help cancer research just by posting no makeup selfies. If you haven't already, join in and post a photo of you without makeup and nominate 3 others to do it too and donate £3 to cancer research by texting 'BEAT' to 70009. Spread the word!

8. Frozen

This honestly has been my favourite film since it came out but this month I've especially been obsessed with it. My best friend and I can't stop singing the songs as the soundtrack is amazing and I really love the storyline too. I think that the newer disney princess animations aren't as good as the 'old-school' Disney (except Tangled! I love that too!) but this film really is great and I would 100% recommend it. In fact it actually comes out in the UK today and I'm really looking forward to purchasing it.

xoxo PinkCupcake xoxo

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