#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.