Chocolate Cookies

Ingredients

225g butter
1 cup brown sugar
½ cup white sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla essence
3 cups cake flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 Tbs cocoa powder
½tsp salt
150g (1box) stafford dark chocolate discs
(chopped)

Method

Cream butter and sugar together until creamy. Add eggs 1 at a time and continue to beat on Meduim speed. Add Vanilla essence and mix.
Sift in dry ingredients a little at a time and beat on Meduim to high speed.
Add chopped chocolate
Mix until evenly incorporated.
Spoon cookie dough and roll in hand until it resembles a ping pong ball.
Place on tray evenly spaced as the cookie will melt down into a circle.
Bake in a preheated oven, middle tray 180°c for 15 minutes.
Allow to cool on cooling rack as cookies will be soft and will crisp up once cool.
Makes about 30 large cookies.