Do you really want my recipe? I have just made a huge batch of chewy American style cookies as it happens which is what made me think of this weird woman!!
My recipe is very classy and is from my DD's Barbie Cook book. Everyone loves it and you can add loads of different things to make it different.
Ingredients:
1 egg
100 butter or cooking margerine
150 g plain flour
75 g soft light brown sugar
50 g ordinary white sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp bicarb
150 g chocolate chopped into chunks or a mixture of choc and raisins etc.
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
Method:
In a roomy bowl, soften butter in the micro and beat in the sugars.
Add the beaten egg, salt, vanilla, bicarb and mix well.
Add the chopped chocolate and stir then mix in the flour. The mix will be quite stiff.
Put dessertspoonfuls of mix onto a baking sheet, spacing them well apart as the cookie will spread.
Bake at about 180 for 10-12 mins.
They are very yummy and I think its the white and brown sugar mix as well as the bicarb that gives the chewy texture. Have just made some with white chocolate and dried cranberries and cherries. In fact, might post this for the first time on the Mumsnet recipe board as it is failsafe