Weekend Wind Down

One of my favourite weekend activities is to bake something. There's nothing quite like curling up on a Sunday afternoon to watch a movie, read a book or just have some friends over and enjoy the fresh baked smell of a cake, some muffins or cookies - not to mention actually eating them.

I have decided to share my weekly baking adventures...let me know what you think.

Double Chocolate Cookies

I made these as a quick greeting gift for someone - and I really mean quick. 10 minutes to prepare, 8 minutes to cook, 5 minutes to cool and you're basically done.

Ingredients:
250g of good dark chocolate in pieces
250g of unsalted butter cubed
3/4 cup of brown sugar
1 egg
1 1/4 cups of plain flour
1 tsp of baking powder

Preheat the oven to 180*C.
Melt the chocolate and butter over a double boiler (or if you're in a hurry like me, just pop it in the microwave and check the mixture after two intervals of 40 seconds).
In a separate bowl, box the egg and the brown sugar until well combined. Add the chocolate mixture and mix well.
In another bowl, combine the flour and baking powder then add to the chocolate/egg/sugar bowl.
Once everything is well combined, put in the fridge to chill for ideally 20 minutes (or 5 minutes in the freezer if you're impatient like me).
Prepare two baking sheets with grease-proof paper and using a teaspoon, roll small balls of the dough 5 cm apart from eachother.
Cook for 7-10 minutes depending on how strong your oven is.
Once the cookies have cooked and cooled (and they will not be very firm straight out of the oven - they need to cool for a good 5 minutes), dip half of each cookie in the chocolate of your choice and let set.

A fool-proof way to impress.