250g butter
1 cup Chelsea Caster Sugar
1 cup Chelsea Soft Brown Sugar
1tsp vanilla essence
2 eggs
3½ cups self-raising flour
Optional – A handful of any other extra ingredients (eg. raisins, choc chippies, nuts)

Cream butter, sugars & vanilla together until light & fluffy. Add eggs in 1 by 1. Mix well.
Stir in self-raising flour and add any extra ingredients if using.
Roll into balls and place 2cm away from each other on a lined/greased flat baking tray.
Bake at 180°C for 10-12 minutes or until the bottoms are coloured and tops are pale.