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This recipe is off allrecipes.com. I've been looking for a nice chewy chocolate cookie recipe for a long time. My family loves them especially DH. When we used to live in Ireland, we would our 'fix' at the cookie shop, forgot it's name though, really yummy!!

Some reviewers recommend putting in an extra 1 cup of flour, but I just left the recipe as is and used dark chocolate chips & put in a bit of raisins to finish them off.

INGREDIENTS
1 1/4 cups butter, softened
2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS
1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

2.In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Sift together the flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt; stir into the creamed mixture. Mix in the chocolate chips. Drop dough by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.

3.Bake 8 to 9 minutes in the preheated oven. Cookies will be soft. Cool slightly on cookie sheet; remove from sheet onto wire rack to cool completely.

Makes 4 dozen

footnote: I know I'm not meant to mix metric and US measurement, but I hate having to measure butter using cups and can't be bothered to weigh my flour/sugar etc, so I normally weigh my butter and use the cup for everythingelse

2 cups of butter is roughly 285g