This is my entry for @qurator's Hive Top Chef competition - it me inspired to get out the mixing bowl. The required ingredient for the competition this week is Chocolate. I kept the recipe simple enough with the Chocolate Chip Sugar Cookies, but I did use hash margarine for this batch of 2 dozen small cookies to make them extra edible.
30 minutes for the total prep and bake time.
Ingredients:
- 1-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cups granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup salted margarine with olive oil (or butter)
- 1 egg
- 1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips + more if desired
I sifted the chocolate chips out of a bag of muffin mix :)
Mixing the Cookie Dough
In a medium size mixing bowl, with a wooden spoon, I vigorously mixed the margarine, sugar, and vanilla extract for about 3 minutes - until it was fluffy with very little sugar grit remaining. At this point I turned on the oven to 350 degrees and lined a baking pan with parchment paper.
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After beating in the egg into the margarine, sugar, and vanilla mixture, I added the flour a little at a time while thoroughly mixing with the wooden spoon, scraping the sides of the bowl (if using a mixer, the setting would be on low when adding the flour).
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Finally, I delicately stirred in the precious chocolate chips - be sure the cookie dough is not much warmer then room temperature, or the chocolate chips will melt into the cookie dough and you'll end up with chocolate cookies (which wouldn't be a total loss).
Baking the Cookies
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That's some nice looking Chocolate Chip Sugar Cookie dough. I'm making 24 small cookies with this recipe - 6 small cookies per tray is all that I can fit into the toaster oven without it baking into one giant cookie. With the spoon I cut the dough into quarters, 6 cookies per quarter.
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I set the 350 degrees pre-heated oven timer to 14 minutes. Anywhere from 12 to 14 minutes should be good, I like cookies to be crispy. I can smell the cookies baking from the back room of the house, yum.
I let the cookies cool for 5 minutes on the tray, 10 minutes on the plate - tasty chocolate chip cookie with that light buttery sugar cookie taste and light crunch. I like to keep the recipes minimal, a half tablespoon of baking powder can be added to this recipe to give them that extra fluffy sugar cookie texture.
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I baked the remaining cookie dough and safely stashed away the remaining cookies for another day.