Take cookies for example, I don't know about you but you can't beat a really good chewy chocolatey cookie straight from the oven. I found this recipe online but it it didn't have enough chocolate in it so I reduced the flour content and added some more cocoa. I think next time I will add more cocoa to it but that's personal preference. I also had some Tate and Lyle golden syrup caster sugar in the cupboard that I got in my goody bag from the Leeds Bake Off that I had yet to try out so this seemed like the perfect recipe to try it on. If you don't have that soft light brown sugar will work just as well.

Ingredients:
125g butter, softened
225g golden syrup caster sugar or soft light brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
200g self-raising flour
30g cocoa
1/2 tbsp milk (only if you find the mixture is a bit too tough and dry)
200g chocolate chips (I used 100g milk and 100g dark)
Makes 24ish (depends on how much cookie dough you munch on before it makes its way into the oven!)

• Preheat the oven to 180C/170C fan

• Cream the butter and sugar 

 

• Beat the egg in a small dish and add the vanilla extract.

• Sift in the flour, add the eggy vanilla mixture and the chocoloate chips and mix together. 

 

• Roll into balls (about a heaped teaspoon of cookie dough) that are a wee bit smaller than a golf ball and space well apart on a baking sheet that has been lined with baking parchment. I used a yorkshire pudding tray and yes this will take a lot longer cos I could only bake in batches of 4 but it stopped the cookies spreading together.

• Bake for 10 mins and using a palette knife carefully place on a cooling rack. They will still be soft but will firm up while cooling.

And that's it - easy chocolate chewy cookies!