Edible gift recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 12 mins; recipe has dark chocolate, butter, light muscovado sugar, golden caster sugar, vanilla extract, egg, pecan, plain flour and bicarbonate of soda.
Chocolate chunk pecan cookies
Course: Edible gift
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Dark Chocolate: 200g dark chocolate, broken into squares (we like Green & Black's)
- Egg: 1 egg, beaten
- Butter: 100g butter, chopped
- Plain Flour: 100g plain flour
- Bicarbonate Of Soda: 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- Golden Caster Sugar: 85g golden caster sugar
- Vanilla Extract: 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Pecan: 100g whole pecan
- Light Muscovado Sugar: 50g light muscovado sugar
Directions
- Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Melt 85g chocolate in the microwave on High for 1 min or over a pan of simmering water.
- Beat in the butter, sugars, vanilla and egg until smooth, then stir in three-quarters of both the nuts and remaining chocolate, then the flour and bicarbonate of soda.
- Heap 12 spoonfuls, spaced apart, on 2 baking sheets (don't spread the mixture), then poke in the reserved nuts and chocolate. Bake for 12 mins until firm, then leave to cool on the sheets. Can be stored in a tin for up to 3 days.
