Cookie cake
Soft, chewy cookies, small on a tray or two big ones in cake tins.
Cook 10–15 min · 190 °C fan
You'll need
- 4 oz butter
- 2½ oz caster sugar
- 2½ oz soft brown sugar
- 5 oz plain flour
- 1 egg
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- ½ tsp vanilla essence
- 1 pinch salt
- 6 oz chocolate, chopped
Equipment
- greased baking trays or 2 greased cake tins
- cooling rack
Method
- Preheat the oven to 190 °C (fan). Grease the baking trays, or two cake tins for big cookies.
- Cream the butter and sugars together.
- Add the egg, vanilla and a spoonful of the flour.
- Beat until smooth.
- Add the rest of the flour, the salt and the bicarb, and mix.
- Stir in the chocolate.
- Spoon small cookies onto the trays, or divide the dough between the two tins.
- Bake for 10–12 minutes for small cookies, or 15 minutes for large ones.
- Cool on a rack. Leave large cookies in their tins until cool, then cut into segments.