Chocolate chip cookies

Be warned. These are spreaders...

Makes about 12 (very very) large ones. You'll need:

100g dark chocolate
125g butter
100g granulated sugar
75g soft brown sugar
1 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
150g plain flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Stick the oven on at about 190 degrees C, and line your baking tray (essential).

First of all, chop up your chocolate into small chunks. You might like to cheat, and buy some chocolate chips, as this takes a while - but Sainsbury's value dark chocolate is only 27p a bar. You win some, you lose some.

Bung the butter into a small saucepan, and gently melt. Pour the sugar into a mixing bowl, then add the melted butter, and beat together. It'll look extremely strange, but go with it.

Sling the egg and vanilla essence in, and beat well again. Gradually add the flour and baking powder, then stir in the chopped up chunks of chocolate. Dollop some spoonfuls of this onto your baking tray A LONG WAY APART.

Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes, until the cookies turn golden brown. Whip them out, then leave to cool on the baking tray for a couple of minutes, until they start to harden. You can then sling them onto a cooling rack.

Keeps for a week or so in an airtight tin. Like that will happen.