Chocolate Chip Cookies

There is nothing better than a warm batch of chocolate chip cookies to let yourself munch on the whole day~! Tastes so good with anything and everything, milk, tea, you name it! Made this bunch for my flatmates and they loved it! :D

Ingredients:

• 180g sifted flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp bicarbonate soda
• chocolate chips
• 120g butter
• 140g sugar (caster or coarse sugar is fine)
• 1 egg
  

Procedure:

1. In a mixing bowl, combine butter and sugar and mix until blended. Add the egg in and mix.
2. In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder and bicarbonate soda together. Add the sifted ingredients into the mixing bowl of butter one at a time and mix. If the mix gets too dry, add a bit of milk but only about a tbsp a time.
3. Once the batter is mixed well, use a teaspoonful of batter and drop the it on a greased tray or a tray lined with greasing paper.
4. Put chocolate chips on top of each drop of batter. Alternatively, you can mix in the chocolate chips with the batter before dropping it onto the tray.
5. Bake at 180 degrees for 15 minutes and voila you have cookies!

Note: Cookies may seem more crumbly when just out of the oven and more crispy if you let them sit for a while. So don't judge a cookie till it sits long enough!

Pancakes for Pancake Day

I have never heard of pancake day but when the UK introduced me to it, I was celebrating it like a true pancake lover! Unfortunately, unlike many English people, I made American Pancakes! Boo me I know but I also had some English Pancakes so I'm going international here.
American Pancakes:

• 350g of self-raising flour
• 1 tbsp sugar, 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 310ml milk (1 1/4 cups)
• 1 egg
• 3 tbsp melted butter
  

Procedure:

1. In a mixing bowl, sift together flour and baking powder. Add salt and sugar
2. Stir the dry ingredients. Make a well in the middle of the sifted ingredients and crack in one egg, 3 tbsp melted butter and 300ml milk. Mix until batter thickens. Set aside
3. Using a frying pan, heat up oil or butter (about 1 tbsp oil). Coat the pan. Scoop about 1/2 a ladle of batter into the pan and swirl the pan to spread the batter. Leave it for a while.
4. When the batter starts to bubble slightly on the top, flip the pancake over. When both sides look golden brown, remove and serve with ice cream and strawberries.
   

English Pancakes:

• 100g flour
• 1egg
• 300ml milk
• pinch of salt

Procedure:

1. In a bowl, sift flour. Make a well in the flour and add salt, egg and milk. Mix the batter until smooth.
2. Heat oil/butter in the frying pan. Pour batter slowly until it coats the base of the pan.
   
3. When the sides form a crusty look, flip pancake over. When golden brown, remove and serve with lemon juice and sugar or with chocolate sauce.
   
4. For other ideas, make savoury pancakes by adding ham and cheese in the middle or chicken cream cheese.