Oh God, there's so much stuff happening in my life recently that I don't have much time to bake new things nor to lie down and just listen to my favourite songs while complaining the summer and the mediterranean heat with a giant bag of ice cubes leaned on my neck...
Regarding to that horrific lack of time and force to work on new recipes, today I'm gonna share this super quick chocolate chip cookies recipe that I made almost 5-6 weeks ago and never shared before (I don't even know why...)
This is not a classic chocolate chip cookies recipe: I started from the original recipe of Nigella Lawson and modified it as well as I wanted to create a little bit different texture and flavour of the cookies. So, if you want to check out the original ingredients, scroll down and click on the link down below. Though, I absolutely suggest you to try my recipe as it's simple, delicious and brings you into a whole new dimension of the cookies world :D
INGREDIENTS:
120g unsalted butter
30g shortening
100g brown sugar
100g caster sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg
1 egg yolk
290g plain flour
20g buckwheat flour
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
pinch of salt
320g chocolate chips
3 tbsp oat flakes
1 tbsp sunflower seeds
METHOD:
Preheat the oven to 170C.
Carefully melt the butter and the shortening in a small saucepan, then leave until cool.
Grab a large mixing bowl and put the sugars into it, add the cooled butter and beat them together with an electric mixer for about 2-3 minutes. Then you can start adding other ingredients as the vanilla extraxt and eggs. Beat the batter until it becomes light and creamy.
Finally, add the flours (there's no need to be sifted), bicarbonate of soda and salt. Do it it more steps as the dough obviously must gain weight and thickness, so at some poit it would be very difficult to keep managing it with the electric mixer - in this case just keep working with a wooden spoon or your hands.
When the dough absorbe the whole flour, it's a sign that it's ready! Oh, almost ready... We still need to incorporate chocolate chips and oat flakes. Now, the oat flakes are absolutely optional! Personally, I divided the dough in two parts: the first one was with chocolate chips only, and the second one with chocolate chips, oat flakes, sunflower seeds, topped with melted chocolate.
Just add the ingredients on your wish to the dough and mix them well.
It's time to mould the balls! I think the perfect size of the dough balls is approximately a ping pong (or golf) ball sized shape, but obviously it's up to you to choose which size suits you better. Remember, though, that if you want a bunch of giant cookies, it would take more time to bake them in the oven.
Conserve them in a jar even for 5-6 days! But trust me, they'll be gone in less than 5 hours :D
Song of the day: twenty one pilots - Ride
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