Chocolate chip cookies for the Christmas tree

Prep time: 20 min

Cooking time: 8 min

Makes: 25 – 30 cookies

Ingredients

450g unsalted butter, softened

700g brown sugar, unrefined

200g granulated sugar, unrefined

4 large eggs

1 vanilla pod with the seeds scraped out

930g plain flour

½ tsp salt

2tsp baking powder

450g dark chocolate chips

Ribbon/string for hanging on the Christmas tree

Method

• Pre-heat the oven to 190°C/gas mark 5.
• Cream the butter and sugar until smooth and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time and scrape in the vanilla seeds. 3
• Put the flour, salt and baking powder into a sieve and sift into the butter mix. Fold to thoroughly combine and then add the chocolate chips.
• On a baking sheet, drop 2 tablespoons of the batter 5cm apart. Bake in batches for 8 minutes, until crisp. Cool on a wire rack.
• While the cookies are still hot, poke a hole a third of the way down the cookie with a clean round pen top. Let the cookies cool completely and string a pretty ribbon through and tie in a loop so that you can hang them on the Christmas tree.

Tips…

Halve the quantities if you just want to make a smaller batch of cookies. You can also make this dough up to one month before cooking, wrap in greaseproof paper and freeze.

Use different shaped cutters, stockings, stars, hearts, Christmas trees and use coloured sugar paste to decorate.