Chocolate Chunk Cookies Recipe

Makes approximately 14 cookies

Ingredients

• 100g/4oz butter or margarine, softened (I use butter)
• 100g/4oz light muscavado sugar
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 140g/5oz plain flour
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 85g/3oz porridge oats
• 200g/8oz plain chocolate, chopped into chunks (I use Cadbury's Bournville)

Method

• Preheat the oven to 180oC/Gas 4/160oC fan oven – cook from cold
• Grease two baking sheets (I normally use baking paper too).
• Beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the egg and vanilla
• Sift in the flour, baking powder.
• Add the porridge and chocolate.
• Using a dessert spoon, put 14 heaped spoonfuls of the mixture onto the baking sheets and flatten with a fork.
• Bake for about 10-12 minutes.
• Cool on a wire rack.