Simple Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is a recipe that I've been using for years and it seems to produce fairly decent (i.e. 10 cookies usually last a day or two at most before they're all devoured) results every time. To be honest with you this recipe is a bit of a mystery to me, I've had it for years and it's hand written, in my hand writing, on an old piece of note paper, but I don't remember when I wrote it, where the recipe originally came from or why I've never transferred it to somewhere more permanent before.

You will need:
200g butter
200g brown sugar
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla extract
200g self raising flour
50g cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
200g chocolate chunks

Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 180° C
2. In a fairly large bowl mix together the butter and sugar until the mixture is light and airy.
3. Add in the egg and vanilla then beat the mixture until fully incorporated.
4. In a separate bowl mix the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder together.
5. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture a little at a time, ensuring it's well mixed before adding more of the flour mixture.
6. Fold the chocolate chunks into the mixture, until there's a fairly even distribution of chocolate.
7. Line a baking tray with parchment, or a silicone baking mat, and using a tablespoon spoon out dollops of the mixture, a few inches apart to allow for spreading, on the tray.
8. Once the tray is full, bake for 10 - 12 minutes in the oven. After removing from the oven allow the cookies to completely on the tray.

Notes:
This makes a fairly dry cookie mix, and the cookies sometimes come out a little cakey, so they're ideal served alongside a hot chocolate or milky coffee. I used this relatively low calorie hot cocoa recipe to attempt to offset (or at least con myself into feeling less guilty) the cookies.

You will need:
250ml almond milk
a cinnamon stick
1 rounded tbsp pure cocoa powder
2 sweeteners

Method:
1. Pour most of the milk into a small saucepan, drop in the cinnamon stick and warm the milk slowly, over a low heat.
2. Pour the remaining milk into a good sized mug, add in the cocoa powder and mix until the cocoa forms a paste and is thoroughly incorporated.
3. Continue to heat the milk for about 10 minutes, but don't allow it boil, until the cinnamon flavours the milk.
4. Drop your sweeteners into the mug before pouring over the hot milk and stirring thoroughly.