Nestum Chocolate Chip Cookies

For anyone curious if I baked cookies for Chinese New Year, nah! here are my cookies! At the end of last year, I did a stock take of my fridge where I found bags and bags of chocolate chips.

Haiz! siow ah! Stocking up on chocolate chips as if they are such a rare commodity. I don't know. I couldn't help it when I saw these Hershey chocolate chips at promotional prices. So I grabbed a few.

So it came as a shock to me when I found that I had 8 bags of chocolate chips sitting in the fridge. So I made a note to use  them up before they expired.

These don't look anything like Chinese New Year cookies, which are usually petite and bite sized. Nope. They were the usual chunky sort of regular cookies because I am incapable of shaping tiny cookies. I just can't.

These cookies were quite time consuming to make because of two extra steps which are (1) coating in Nestum and (2) putting three chocolate chips on each of the dough balls.

I used milk chocolate chips in the dough and semi-sweet chocolate chips for the decoration. Milk chocolate chips are a melty lot and having them in the dough is nice as they give the cookies a chocolaty richness and won't make a mess. The semi-sweet ones are more stable and do well studded on the cookies.

Well, you don't have to wait for any festive occasion to bake these cookies. If you like Nestum cookies and chocolate chip cookies, I am quite certain you will love these.

Nestum Chocolate Chip Cookies
Recipe source : Phong Hong

Ingredients :
- 250g butter
- 130g sugar*
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 250g self-raising flour
- 150g milk chocolate chips
- enough semi-sweet chocolate chips for decoration (you can skip this if you like)
- Slightly more than 1 cup Nestum for coating (put this in a mixing bowl)

*Note : Milk chocolate chips are very sweet, hence I reduced sugar to 130g. If using semi-sweet chocolate chips, I would use 150g sugar.

Method :
1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
2. Add vanilla extract and egg and continue to cream until well mixed.
3. Fold in flour and mix to form a dough (I used a spatula to do this)
4. Fold in milk chocolate chips.
5. Using two teaspoons, scoop a small amount of dough and drop the dough into the Nestum to coat.
6. Using you hands, roll the dough into a ball and place it on a lined baking tray.
7. Continue until you tray is filled (please ensure there is enough space between the cookie dough).
8. Place 3 semi-sweet chocolate chips on each dough and bake at 160C for 16-18 minutes until the cookies are golden brown.