The Best Chocolate-Chip Cookies Recipe!
With this recipe, you will learn how to make authentic cookies, the best you will ever taste! You will also learn some useful English vocabulary related to baking, including some conversion tips for measurement units.
For about 80 regular cookies
INGREDIENTS
- ½ pound(2 sticks) sweet butter, softened
1 pound=453,59 gr
½ pound=227 gr
1 stick butter=110 gr
- 1 cupbrown sugar
- ¾ cup granulatedsugar
1 cup=240 ml. The weight depend on the product :
1 cup brown sugar=170 gr
1 cup granulated sugar=220 gr
Granulated sugar is the most common every-day table sugar. It is the kind used for sweetening cereal, yogurt and such, and in most of the baking. (sucre cristallisé)
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoonvanilla extract
1 teaspoon=5gr (cuillère à café)
- 2 cups flour
1 cup flour=140 gr
2 cups flour=280 gr
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
Baking soda is a white powder used as a raising agent in cakes. (bicarbonate de soude)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cupssemisweet chocolate chips
1 cup chocolate chips=125 gr
1 ½ cups chocolate chips= 188 gr
PREPARATION
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a cookie sheet.
325°F (Fahrenheit)=177°C (Celsius)
a cookie sheet= a baking plate for cookies (plaque à biscuits)
- Cream butter and both sugars together until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla and mix well.
fluffy=soft, mellow (consistance légère et onctueuse)
- Siftdry ingredients together and stir in, mixing thoroughly. Add chocolate chips to batter.
sift=pour and sprinkle (tamiser)
stir in=mix with, put into (incorporer, mélanger)
Form cookies : use a tablespoonfor portionning the dough into balls. Drop each ball onto a greased cookie sheet, wet your hand with water and flatten the ball.
a tablespoon=a spoon used for eating soup (cuillère à soupe)
to flatten=to press the dough ball to make it larger and thinner (aplatir)
- Bake on the middle rackfor 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from oven while centers are still slightly soft. Cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring cookies to a rackto cool completely.
on the middle rack (of the oven)=on the grid at mid-height (sur la grille du milieu du four)
transferring to a rack=putting on a grid (transférer sur une grille)
VARIATIONS
You can add:
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
• or 1 cup unsalted peanuts
• or 1 cup shredded coconut
You can also substitute 1 teaspoon mint extract for the vanilla extract.
Enjoy!
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