Foodie Friday: The perfect chocolate chip cookies

These classic, perfect chocolate chip cookies have a tinge of caramel flavour and are studded with chocolate goodness.

Tip: Use a small ice-cream scoop to form balls of dough and they’ll bake into gorgeous, perfectly round cookies every time.

Ingredients

• 200 g plain flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 125 g unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 100g light brown sugar
• 90 g granulated sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 470 g chocolate chips

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line two baking sheets with baking paper.

In a bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat the butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar until smooth, about 2 minutes. Add the egg and vanilla and mix on low speed until blended. Slowly add the flour mixture and mix just until incorporated. Switch to a wooden spoon and stir in the chocolate chips.

Using a small ice cream scoop or heaping tablespoon, drop the dough onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing the dough mounds 5 cm apart.

Bake the cookies, 1 sheet at a time, until the bottoms and edges are lightly browned and the tops feel firm when lightly touched, 10-13 minutes. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes, then transfer cookies to wire racks to cool completely. Makes 30 cookies.

–From the Williams Sonoma Test Kitchen.