All Thats Good Cookies Food

BASIC COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Cream the butter in a large bowl with a wooden spoon or in a stand mixer until it is soft. Add the sugar and keep beating until the mixture is light and fluffy. Sift in the flour and add the optional ingredients, if you're using them. Bring the mixture together with your hands in a figure-of-eight motion until it forms a dough. You can freeze the dough at this point.
• Roll the dough into walnut-sized balls and place them slightly apart from each other on a baking sheet (you don't need to butter or line it). Flatten the balls a little with the palm of your hand and bake them in the oven for around 10-12 mins until they are golden brown and slightly firm on top. Leave the cookies on a cooling rack for around 15 mins before serving.

A TO Z EVERYTHING-BUT-THE-KITCHEN-SINK CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets. Sift together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, mace, nutmeg, and cloves; set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream together butter, brown sugar, and white sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in milk and vanilla. Gradually mix in the sifted ingredients until well blended. Using a wooden spoon, stir in the cornflakes, oats, coconut, chocolate chips, and walnuts. Roll the dough into walnut sized balls, and place 2 inches apart on prepared cookie sheets; flatten slightly.
• Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. I found that slightly under baking these yields wonderfully chewy cookies!

ATK'S CHEWY CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees farenheit. Line two cookie sheets with parchment.
• Take 10 tablespoons butter and melt and brown in in a metal pan, swirling mixture as milk solids in the butter begin to brown. Pour into a heat-proof bowl.
• Add in 4 tablespoons cold butter and whisk until melted.
• Whisk in the two types of sugar.
• Whisk in the salt, vanilla and then the eggs.
• IMPORTANT: Let mixture stand for three minutes and whisk again. REPEAT this process two more times.
• Combine flour and baking soda. Stir into wet mixture with a large spoon unitil incorporated.
• Stir in chocolate chips.
• Place 3 tablespoons of dough into mounds 2" apart onto cookie sheets.
• Place in center of the oven (only one sheet at a time) and bake for 11-14 minutes.
• Remove from oven and let cookies cool ON THE SHEET for 30-60 minutes to ensure the ideal cookie.