Triple Chocolate Cookies

A classic that had to appear on Babble and Bake eventually, chocolate cookies! 

I decided not to make these gluten free because they were for my family, but as soon as I’d taken them out of the oven I massively regretted that decision, they looked and smelt amazing! I also decided to add a little bit of decorative white chocolate on top, because let's be honest, more chocolate makes everything better...

I’ll definitely be posting a gluten free cookie recipe very soon too!

Ingredients

175g unsalted butter

250g soft brown sugar

250g plain flour

75g cocoa powder

1 large egg

1 tsp vanilla extract or seeds from 1/2 vanilla pod

Pinch of salt

90g white chocolate chunks

90g milk chocolate chunks

200g white chocolate for decorating (optional)

Method

- Preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/350 F/Gas 4 and line two baking trays with greaseproof paper.

- In a large mixing bowl cream together the butter and sugar until smooth and fluffy, then sift in the flour and cocoa powder.

- Add the salt, chocolate chunks and vanilla then break in the egg.

- Combine all of the ingredients then divide the mixture roughly into 12 balls (it may not seem like 1 egg is going to combine all of the ingredients, but really get your hands in there and it will get there eventually).

- Put them on the baking trays and lightly press them down, leave a couple of centimetres between each cookie so that they have room to spread whilst they bake.

- Bake the cookies for about 15 minutes or until slightly crispy on the outside, but soft and cakey in the middle. Cook for a couple of extra minutes for a crunchier cookie (I was attempting to multitask whilst baking this, and didn’t hear the timer go off… so mine were a little bit too much on the crispy side).

- Leave the cookies to cool completely.

- This last step is optional, but I think it is a fun finishing touch, break the white chocolate into chunks and melt it over a low heat. Either dip the cookies into the melted chocolate, or using a teaspoon drizzle the chocolate over the cookies however you like. Place then on a sheet of baking parchment and leave the chocolate to set.

- Dish them out and enjoy!

You can personalise these however you like, you could skip the cocoa powder and have vanilla cookies instead, or throw in some dried fruit pieces in place of chocolate chips! 

Let me know if you like this post, I discovered very quickly that it isn't very easy to get a good photo of cookies, so I hope I've done them justice!

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