Gooey Chocolate Chip Cookies

Step 1/8

Preheat the oven to 180C, gas mark 4

Step 2/8

• 125 g butter (soft)
• 100 g light brown sugar
• 125 g caster sugar

• whisk
• bowl

Cream the softened butter and combined sugars with an electric whisk.

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• 225 g self-raising flour
• ½ tsp salt

• sieve

Mix the salt into the flour and sift into the creamed butter. Whisk until the mixture is consistent.

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• 125 g chocolate chips

Add the chocolate chips and mix until evenly distributed. Put the whisk aside and use your hands.

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• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• wooden spoon

Beat the egg in a separate bowl and stir in the vanilla extract. Add to the dry ingredients and stir through with a wooden spoon to form a single cookie dough ball.

Step 6/8

• baking sheet
• baking tin

Tear off a chunk of dough, roll into a ball about 2 inches in diameter and flatten between your hands. Place a few on a baking tin covered with ungreased baking paper, spaced enough to allow each to double in size.

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• spatula
• wire rack

Pop in the oven for ten minutes. When they come out, give one a very light poke - the outside will feel baked enough to be crunchy but the gooey inside will collapse as if molten. Leave them to harden for a five minutes then use a spatula to move them to a cooling rack.