250g softend butter
1 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 cup caster sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg
2 cups plain flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
400g any kind of chocolate chopped up.
preheat oven to 180 degrees and line oven trays with baking paper
beat butter/sugar/vanilla/egg with eletric mixer until light and fluffy.
stir in flour, cocoa, baking soda. stir in chocolate
roll tablespoons of dough into balls and place 5cm apart on trays, bake about 12 mins and cool on trays.
variations: add a handfull of sliced toasted almonds and 1/3 tsp almond extract.