Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

 Crap photo quality, hahaha.

Yet another baking recipe! Sooo, I got bored at home today and I've been craving some home-baked sweets lately, so I decided to make the classic chocolate chip cookies with the ingredients we have left at home! I remember buying a packet of white chocolate chips with a recipe on it at the back, and decided to use that since we have all the ingredients at home anyway (except for the condensed milk, which I asked my sister to buy).

I prefer my cookies, cakes, brownies, whatever to be moist and soft, so I Googled up some ideas on how to make cookies moist like the ones you buy from Subway! So, along with the recipe given on the white chocolate chip packet, I made some alterations in the recipe to make moist cookies by adding an extra egg yolk and using melted butter.

Chocolate Chip Cookies
Makes: 20

Ingredients:

• 225g butter, melted
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup condensed milk
• 2 cups plain flour
• 1tsp baking powder
• One egg yolk
• 3/4 cup chocolate or white chocolate chips (I used white chocolate chips because that's what he had at home!)

Instructions:

1. Preheat over to 160°C and lay out baking paper on tray.
2. Whisk together melted butter, sugar and condensed milk in a medium-sized bowl until mixture is light and fluffy.
3. Shift flour and baking powder into bowl and mix with wooden spoon. Combine egg yolk with mixture. Stir in chocolate chips after.
4. Roll dough into balls of one tablespoon each. Place balls on baking tray and flatten with a spoon, fork or your own hand (I totally forgot to do this on the first batch GAH!)
5. Bake for 10 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean from the cookie.
6. Cool down the cookies for 10-15 minutes. Cooling it down completely allows the cookie to be soft and moist.
7. Enjoy! 

Verdict: I just took out the last batch of the cookies from the oven. The packet recipe told me to bake it at 190°C, and I took it down to 180 yet it was still too hot! So the bottoms were brown-burnt but the insides were chewy. Next time I am soooo baking these at 160°C ONLY (hence I wrote that temperature on the recipe above).