I don’t generally use the word ‘cookie’, I don’t see what’s wrong with calling a biscuit a biscuit. But these biscuits are called cookies by Mary Berry: Mega Chocolate Chip Cookies. Whatever, they do taste good. As with all cake and biscuit cooking, the bowl is scraped clean. Chewy more than crisp, I’ve successfully frozen these and refreshed them briefly in a warm oven. Biscuits are one of those things where I long for biscuits from home, Spanish biscuits just don’t cut it; so I like to make a couple of batches and stash them in the freezer.
Makes 12-24 depending on how big you want them to be
6oz soft margarine
8oz sugar
2 eggs [I used three as mine were very small]
12oz self-raising flour
4oz chocolate chips or chopped chocolate Pre-heat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Lightly oil three baking trays [I find the cooked biscuits easier to remove from the hot baking tray if I lightly oil it with sunflower oil, than grease it with margarine].
Put all the measured ingredients into a large bowl and mix until the biscuit dough is smooth.
Place large spoonfuls [I used a dessert spoon] of the mixture onto a baking tray [I put six on each tray] then flatten each slightly with the back of the spoon.
Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes, mine were done after 15, or until golden brown and just firm to the touch. Cool on a wire rack, and store in an airtight container.
5 to remember
equivocado/a – wrong
una galleta – a biscuit
se llama – it is called
enorme – mega
el tazón – the bowl
I’m with you on the name “biscuit”, Sandra – but we are British, aren’t we? 🙂
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I remember the first ‘cookies’ that went on sale in the UK, chocolate chip cookies. They seemed exotic but were dry and disappointing. Home-made is so much nicer! SD
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Lovely bikkies!
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Thx, not gluten-free though. Sorry! SD
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That’s ok, I can still eat them, Ha! 🙂
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These words creep in…I often catch myself saying movie instead of film :-O
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I still say ‘we went to the pictures’! SD
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Were they talking pictures…?! 😉
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To my mind, cookies and biscuits are slightly different animals… those round ones with the slightly doughy centre are cookies, while those hard things you have with your tea are biscuits. When I hear “cookie” a very different image forms in my head than when I hear “biscuit”. Does anyone in the UK REALLY refer to a chocolate chip cookie as a biscuit?? I’ve never heard anyone do that. Of course, once you press people on it, they get all flustered and want to call it a biscuit, because “cookie” is “American”, but in real life, people recognise that there is a distinction.
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Yes that’s a good definition. Cookies are bigger too, I think. SD
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Yup… and I can also see that there are “varieties” that would fall into both camps 😉
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In Germany, they sell similar biscuits as cookies. 😀
(e.g. Pepperidge Farm)
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Okay, the lines are getting very blurred now! SD
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Oh My Gosh! It’s like calling a sweater a jumper. 🙂 Those are most definitely cookies. Yummy cookies, I have no doubt. I agree, Spanish cookies (OK,OK, biscuits) just don’t make it. 😀
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Yes, Spanish biscuits are a bit disappointing. I obviously haven’t found the right ones yet! SD
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The photo with the flour in the bowl and the chips arcing on the top edge with the egg mixture curving around the bottom – pure art.
The cookies -er, biscuits – look so yummy!
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I’m so pleased you like my photos! 🙂 SD
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These sound yummy, but I will have to use gluten free flour and some baking soda/powder. Here in the Pacific Northwest, we seem to have so many words for baked treats; cookies, biscuits, muffins, crackers…then list goes on. My husband is from N. Zealand and calls what you make in this recipe “biscuits.”
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I agree with him, definitely a ‘biscuit’. But it tastes good whatever it’s called! SD
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YUM! I love both cookies AND biscuits! But I have to wonder, in Europe, if U.S. cookies are biscuits, then what do they call U.S. biscuits?
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Scones! SD
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LOL! That’s funny…. because scones are something different entirely to us as well. 🙂
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Yes, to us American scones are just weird! 🙂 SD
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