Cooking with Asia

Prep Time: 15 Min

Cook Time: 10 Min

Ready In: 25 Min

Servings: 9 - 10

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup margarine, softened

• 1/2 cup white sugar

• 1/2 cup brown sugar

• 1 egg

• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 1 cup all-purpose flour

• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 2 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa powder

• 1-1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).

2. Line cookie sheet with parchment.

3. In a medium bowl, cream together the margarine, white sugar and brown sugar until smooth.

4. Beat in the egg, then stir in the vanilla.

5. Sift in the flour, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder; mix well.

6. Stir in the chocolate chips.

7. Use a scoop to drop cookies on the prepared cookie sheets.

8. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven.

9. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 2 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.\

When I knew what we were making in class I remembered when we made these with the grade 8's at the spend a day. I liked when we made them the first time and I enjoyed this time too. My favorite part of the lab was when we were able to have a cookie because they were so delicious. When we were making these in the kitchen it was easy and wasn’t too complicated of a recipe. In the process of getting all the ingredients prepped we messed up and lost count of how much cocoa powder we measured. It was a tiny set back because we had to measure it again but it was a fixable mistake. We actually did pretty good making these cookies and I think that we had a good consistent size and we took them out of the oven at a perfect time. A big mistake that we made in this lab though was that we had the temperature at the wrong setting. We had it at 350 degrees when it should have been 375 degrees but it was fixed easily because all we had to do was keep them in the oven for a little while longer. In class we learned that brown sugar needs to be packed tight into the cup which I didn’t know before this commercial cooking class and that helped me during this cooking lab. Before when I baked things with brown sugar I would just put brown sugar into the cup rather than packing it in like you're supposed to. If I would make these again at home I'm thinking that I would need to pay more attention to the temperatures and I also think that I need to watch the cookies closely so that they don’t overcook.