We just celebrated Valentine’s Day and as always, we have so much leftover chocolate that we received as gifts. At EC Montreal, we distributed chocolate gift bags to all our students and teachers to show them how much we love them.
One thing I like to do with leftover chocolate is bake. A simple and easy recipe is chocolate chip cookies. They make a delicious snack or dessert any day of the week. They are also easy to pack up and give away as gifts to friends and classmates.
I like to chop up all my leftover valentine chocolates and use them as chips in the batter. I like to use different kinds of chocolate to make the cookies extra special.
For my version of chocolate chip cookies, you will need the following ingredients:
– 2, ¼ cups of flour
– 1 teaspoon of baking soda
– 1 cup of softened butter
– 1 cup of brown sugar
– 1 egg
– 1 teaspoon of vanilla
– 2 cups of chocolate chunks, I like to mix white, dark and milk chocolate
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Place 2 sticks of butter in a microwave safe bowl and microwave for 30 seconds to soften the butter or if you have time, just leave the butter out at room temperature for about one hour.
Add your sugar to the butter and mix until smooth. Add your egg and vanilla and mix well. Next add your flour and baking soda. Mix well until you can no longer see the white flour. Add your chocolate chunks and mix well. Use a teaspoon to scoop out your cookie dough and roll into 1-inch balls. Place the cookie batter on a lightly greased cookie sheet and bake for approximately 5 minutes. The trick is to under bake the cookies and leave them on the cookie sheet once you take them out of the oven so they can continue to bake on the hot pan. This will ensure the cookies come out both soft and crispy at the same time. Don’t over grease your pan as there is a lot of butter in the cookie dough. If it is too greasy, the cookies can spread into each other creating a big mess.
We hope you will give this very easy recipe a try. We will be sharing the recipe on Microsoft Teams where you can access your Virtual French lessons.
