- Serves: 24 Cookies
- Prep Time: 4 minutes
- Total Time: 29 minutes
This is your basic chocolate cookie from scratch recipe that allows you to make 101 variations to delight the palette and loved ones. It is so simple and quick that your children and/or grandchildren can help and enjoy the whole process together without damaging anything. My 3 year old son and my two granddaughters 2 and 4 helped out last night making two different batches of chocolate cookies. We made this basic recipe below adding chopped walnuts and my favorite: Mexican Cow Patties.
Ingredients
- 1 cup of all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup of cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp of baking powder
- 1/2 tsp of baking soda
- 1 dash of salt
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1 beaten egg
- 1 tsp of vanilla extract
- 5 Tbsp of melted butter
- 1/2 cup of melted chocolate semi-sweet morsels
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350F or 180C.
2. Mix the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together.
3. Mix the sugar, melted butter, vanilla extract and the beaten egg until creamy
4. Mix in creamy mixture from step 4 into the melted semi-sweet chocolate morsels
5. Mix in the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients little by little
6. Form into 1 inch round balls and place on a cookie sheet evenly spread apart
7. Bake in oven for 12 minutes or until done.
8. Let cool for 10 minutes before removing from cookie sheet.
2. Mix the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together.
3. Mix the sugar, melted butter, vanilla extract and the beaten egg until creamy
4. Mix in creamy mixture from step 4 into the melted semi-sweet chocolate morsels
5. Mix in the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients little by little
6. Form into 1 inch round balls and place on a cookie sheet evenly spread apart
7. Bake in oven for 12 minutes or until done.
8. Let cool for 10 minutes before removing from cookie sheet.
