Almond Chocolate Cookies

Finally finish spring cleaning. Now I have time for some baking :)

I try out this new recipe for chocolate cookies. If it turn out good, I will be mass baking for CNY.

I would say it taste good, not too sweet, as I have reduced sugar from the recipe (usually that's the case for me). I also reduced the temperature as called by the recipe, since my previous baking always turned out a little too burned. Maybe my oven is bit hotter. But my 2nd tray turned out slightly burnt and the 3rd even worst. I guess as I bake, I need to reduce the temp as my oven gets hotter.

Yes, I will be mass baking tomorrow. Maybe change the recipe a little - Chocolate walnut, chocolate raisin, Koko crunch etc :)

The recipe as follows:

Ingredients
115g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
75g butter
100g caster/fine white sugar
50g brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla essence
125g chocolate chips (i use chocolate bar, chopped)
50g chopped almond

Method
1. Sift flour, baking powder and salt and put aside.
2. Cream butter and sugar until it’s pale and light with an electric mixer. Beat in egg and vanilla essence until well combined.
3. Add in the flour gradually on low speed and mix well.
4. Stir in the chocolate chips and half the almond.
5. Grease 2 to 3 baking sheets.
6. Drop teaspoonfuls of the mixture on to the prepared baking sheets to form 2cm mounds. Space the cookies 2.5 to 5cm apart.
7. Flatten each cookie lightly with a wet fork and sprinkle the remaining almond on top of the cookies.
8. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in preheat oven at 180C until golden. Transfer the cookies to a wire rack and leave to cool.

(Recipe adapted from thescafer.net)