chocolate chip cookies

Chocolate Chip Cookie
(adapted from David Lebovitz's The Great Book of Chocolate)

1/2 cup sugar
8 tablespoons (1 stick) of salted butter, cut into 1cm blocks
1 large egg, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cups (100 grams) semisweet chocolate, roughly chopped
1/4 cup walnuts, roughly chopped
1/4 cup dried cranberries

Preheat the oven to 300F.

Beat the butter and sugar until smooth.

Add the egg, vanilla extract, and baking soda.

Mix in the flour, and beat until smooth and airy.

Fold in the chocolate, walnuts, and dried cranberries into the batter.

Scoop about a tablespoon of batter (for smaller cookies) onto parchment paper. Space each cookie about 3 inches apart. Bake for 18 minutes, and let cool.

Makes about 20 3-inch cookies.