#8 How to Make Home Made Chocolate Chips

The main problem to use good and delicious chocolate in cookies is, they melt at room temperature!

Hence, to customize the choc chips, I come out with an idea to make home made choc chips.

These are some of the links available on how to make choc chips.

Well~ Need to have some more research on Choc Chip which is hard to melt at room temp. :p

#7 potential milestone

1. Jual through direct selling, fb, instagram. In jar or some nice packaging

2. Once dah dapat audience, buka stall indoor, within a supermarket. Do it freshly baked. Weekends. If open on weekdays, may need to think of resources. 

3. Open stalls in events for one of the commercializing strategies. 

4. Need to think of opening branches once reach 'some defined' level

#6 Potential branding names

Imperial cookies

Delicious cookies

Dapur cookies

#5 Branding

Listed below are some good websites for introduction to Branding knowledge.

1. MarketingDonut
2. BusinessInsider

#4 Double Choc Millies Cookies Recipe

Taken from this website:

Ingredient

• 125g butter - softened
• 100g light brown sugar
• 125g caster sugar
• 1 egg lightly beaten
• 1 tea spoon vanilla extract
• 175g self-raising flour
• 50g cocoa powder
• 1/2 tea spoon salt
• 200g choc chips (can customize with other type of chocs: Belgian Choc etc)

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4
2. Cream butter and sugars, once creamed, combine in the egg and vanilla.
3. Sift in the flour and salt, then the chocolate chips.
4. Roll into walnut size balls, for a more homemade look, or roll into a long, thick sausage shape and slice to make neater looking cookies.
5. Place on ungreased baking paper. If you want to have the real Millies experience then bake for just 7 minutes, till the cookies are just setting - the cookies will be really doughy and delicious. Otherwise cook for 10 minutes until just golden round the edges.
6. Take out of the oven and leave to harden for a minute before transferring to a wire cooling rack. These are great warm, and they also store well, if they don't all get eaten straight away!

#3 Millies Cookies Recipe

Taken from this website:

Ingredient

• 125g butter - softened
• 100g light brown sugar
• 125g caster sugar
• 1 egg lightly beaten
• 1 tea spoon vanilla extract
• 225g self-raising flour
• 1/2 tea spoon salt
• 200g choc chips

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4
2. Cream butter and sugars, once creamed, combine in the egg and vanilla.
3. Sift in the flour and salt, then the chocolate chips.
4. Roll into walnut size balls, for a more homemade look, or roll into a long, thick sausage shape and slice to make neater looking cookies.
5. Place on ungreased baking paper. If you want to have the real Millies experience then bake for just 7 minutes, till the cookies are just setting - the cookies will be really doughy and delicious. Otherwise cook for 10 minutes until just golden round the edges.
6. ake out of the oven and leave to harden for a minute before transferring to a wire cooling rack. These are great warm, and they also store well, if they don't all get eaten straight away!

#2 Chewy Choc Chips Cookies

This is originally taken from AllRecipes with some modifications:

Ingredients:

• 250g plain flour (used 260g)
• 1/2 tea spoon bicarbonate soda
• 1/2 tea spoon salt
• 170g unsalted butter - melted
• 200g dark brown soft sugar (used 170g)
• 100g caster sugar
• 1 table spoon vanila extract
• 1 egg
• 1 egg yolk
• 300g choc chips

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 170 C / Gas mark 3. Grease baking trays or line with parchment.
2. Sift together the flour, bicarb and salt; set aside.
3. In a medium bowl, cream together the melted butter, brown sugar and caster sugar until well blended. Beat in the vanilla, egg and egg yolk until light and creamy. 
4. Mix in the sifted ingredients until just blended. 
5. Stir in the chocolate chips by hand using a wooden spoon. 
6. Drop cookie dough onto the prepared baking trays, with each cookie around 4 tablespoons of dough (for smaller cookies, drop 1 rounded tablespoonful and adjust baking time as necessary). Do not flatten the dough. Cookies should be about 8cm apart.
7. Bake for 15 to 17 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the edges are lightly toasted. Cool on baking trays for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.