Chocolate Chip Cookies / 巧克力曲奇饼 / チョコレートチップクッキー

After cream cheese biscuits and cornflake cookies, this is the latest cookies requested by the big kid. Quick and easy, nothing fancy but I am sure you can't stop at one.

Ingredients (30-36 pcs):

1 cup all-purpose flour
½ tsp baking powder
⅛ tsp salt
½ cup unsalted butter
¼ cup white sugar
1 tbsp shaved gula melaka (palm sugar)
¼ cup semisweet chocolate chips (add more if desired)
½ tsp chocolate essence (optional)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 150 deg C.
2. Cream together the butter and sugar. Stir in the chocolate essence.
3. Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. Mix the flour mixture into the creamed butter gradually until combined. Then, stir in the chocolate chips.
4. Drop a teaspoon full of the dough onto a baking tray lined with baking paper then flatten a little with fingers.
5. Bake for 20 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on rack.