World Peace Cookies -August ~ Secret Recipe Club challenge.

This is my 1st assignment with the Secret Recipe Club.The aim of the club is that you are allocated a blog from which you have to select  a recipe and make it and blog about it.
My assignment was from  Kirsty's blog called Darn Near Domestic. Kirtsy's blog has many wonderful recipes and to select one from it was quite a challenge in it self, however looking through the recipes I selected World Peace cookies as they looked delectable and the recipe was simple to follow.
I followed the recipe almost to the T from here the only changes I made were:

• Used 240 grams butter instead of 11 tablespoons as I guessed it was the equivalent.
• Instead of making a sausage shape of dough  and chilling  prior to slicing cookie shapes , I made walnut size balls and chilled them first  and flattened them using a fork before baking.
• For easier handling, I added 1/4 cup more flour as my dough was rather soft and sticky.

The results were  an amazing  36  soft chewy cookies although were not uniform in shape tasty brilliant and were simply divine. This recipe I will definitely make again especially as its eggless. I did find the cookies a little too sweet for my palate so next time I will leave out the 60 grams white sugar.

Ingredients:

300 grams flour
80 grams  cocoa
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
240 grams butter ( soft room temperature)
160 grams brown sugar
60 grams white sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
180 grams chocolate chip
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Method:

1. Cream the butter and sugar together.
2. Add the bicarbonate, salt and vanilla and mix well.
3. Fold in the flour and the chocolate chip.
4. Pinch walnut sized balls and place them on parchment paper on a baking try.(Spread out as cookies will expand during baking) Chill for 15 minutes.
5. Remove from fridge and using a fork flatten the dough balls to form round cookies approx 8 mm thick.
6. Bake them in a pre heated oven 160 degrees Centigrade/ 325  degrees Fahrenheit for about 10 minutes.
7. After 10 minutes  cookies will look soft and slightly under cooked , however  once they have  cooled they will be  perfect soft and chewy.

Serve with a glass of cold milk.