These chocolate cookies are at their best if you eat them warm. They make a wonderful dessert, served with ice cream and raspberries. Or just eat them on their own. They are really easy to make. From start to finish, they will take you around 20 minutes, including the cooking time, so they are great to make with kids, or impatient adults!
This recipe makes 6 cookies:
100g butter
80g white sugar
100g self raising flour
20g cocoa powder
50g chocolate chips
Sprinkle of sea salt
Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees/160 degree fan and grease a large baking tray with butter and place a sheet of baking paper on it. The butter will help the baking sheet stick, so that it doesn’t flap around in a fan oven and stick to the cookies.
Make sure the butter is nice and soft, at room temperature. Then mix the butter, sugar, flour and cocoa powder together with your fingers in a large mixing bowl. Rub the butter together, as though you are making crumble. Eventually the butter will soften even more and begin to gel together with the sugar and flour. At this stage, add the chocolate chips and continue to blend the mixture with your hands, until a dough forms.
Squish the dough together into a large ball and divide it into 6 equal pieces with a sharp knife.
Take hold of one of the pieces and roll it into a ball and press it down onto the baking sheet until it is 2cm thick. This is quite thick, so don’t press it too much, otherwise the cookies will be too thin. Sprinkle each cookie with some sea salt.
Bake for 10 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool for a couple of minutes and then eat them while they are still warm.
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