Metric – Soft & Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
These chocolate chip cookies are the best soft and chewy cookie you will find. Gooey chocolate, slightly crispy edges with a soft and chewy centre mean that these cookies will be on your baking list every week.
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 10
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 36
- Category: baking
Ingredients
- 225g butter
- 400g plain flour
- 200g almond flour
- 1 ¼ tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp bicarb
- ½ tsp salt* see notes
- 300g light brown sugar
- 100g caster sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 350g bar dark or milk chocolate chopped
- flaky sea salt
- 1 jalapeño
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180 and line to baking trays with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl whisk together the plain flour, baking powder, bicarb and salt. Set aside while you melt the butter.
- In a small sauce pan over a medium heat melt the butter gently. Remove from the heat and pour into a medium size mixing bowl. Add the sugars to the melted butter and whisk until it’s combined into a thick paste like consistency and all the butter has been absorbed.
- Add the eggs one at a time whisking well after each egg. Mix in vanilla and whisk to incorporate. Add the dry flour mixture and switch to a wooden spoon or spatula to mix the flour in.
- Stir the chocolate chunks through the dough and let rest in the fridge for 30 minutes. Using an ice cream scoop or your hands, form the dough into balls roughly 3 tablespoons in size. Place them on the tray leaving plenty of space between each cookie. Sprinkle with sea salt if desired and bake for 10-12 minutes or until the cookies are just golden around the edges and have a chewy centre and the chocolate is melted.
- Leave the cookies to cool on the tray for about 5 minutes before using a spatula to remove them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
- If using salted butter omit the salt in the recipe. If unsalted you will need to add the salt.
- If you use the milk chocolate just be aware the cookies will taste a little sweeter than with dark.
- The cookie dough can be frozen as a whole or roll into balls and freeze. That way you have fresh cookies to bake off and need to only do a couple at a time.
