If I keep baking cookies, it’s because I am never quite satisfied with them: I have searched long and wide for that perfect cookie that “looks the part, smells the part” and more importantly “tastes the part”…. I believe I found it! My older son tells me “You can stop looking now Mummy” so time to share!

Ingredients:

• 150g butter
• 85g soft light brown sugar
• 75g sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg + 1 yolk straight from the fridge
• 200g flour
• 100g rolled oats
• ¾ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• ¼ tsp salt (but not if you’re using salted butter)
• 1 tsp ground vanilla
• Chocolate chips ( 3 large handful)

Preparation:

• Preheat oven to 170°C/ 150°fan/ Gas 3 and line 2 baking trays: it makes 12 to 14 cookies
• Melt the butter and set aside to cool a little
• Add to both sugars and cream together
• Beat in the vanilla and eggs until the mixture is light and creamy

• In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, oats,soda, salt and ground vanilla

• Slowly (speed 1) mix the dry ingredients to the creamy mixture until just blended
• Fold in the chocolate chips

• Using an ice cream scoop (I find the medium sized one works best), drop the dough onto the baking trays, well apart

• Bake for 15 to 18mn, until the edges are slightly toasted. When I have 2 trays, I swap them after 10mn, back to front and top to bottom

• Leave to cool for 5mn before transferring to cooling wire

and resist for as long as you can….