Recipes: Gooey chocolate cherry cookies

Gooey chocolate cherry cookies

If you like American-style cookies, you’ll love these pale, chewy delights. Plus, they can be baked from frozen

Ingredients

  • 200g unsalted butter , at room temperature
  • 85g light muscovado sugar
  • 85g golden caster sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 225g self-raising flour
  • 50g plain chocolate , 50-70% cocoa, roughly chopped
  • 50g white chocolate , roughly chopped
  • 85g natural colour glacé cherries , roughly chopped

    Method

    1. Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Beat the butter, sugars and egg until smooth, then mix in the flour, chocolates and cherry pieces and ½ tsp salt. Spoon onto non-stick baking sheets in large rough blobs - you'll get 20 out of this mix. Make sure they are well spaced as the cookies grow substantially as they bake. The raw dough can be frozen.
    2. Bake for 12-14 mins until just golden, but still quite pale and soft in the middle. If baking from frozen, give them a few mins more. Cool on the sheets for 5 mins, then lift onto racks with a fish slice and leave to cool completely.

    TryOther flavours

    Try swapping the cherries for sour cherries, nuts or even more chocolate.

    PER COOKIE

    186 kcalories, protein 2g, carbohydrate 23g, fat 11 g, saturated fat 6g, fibre 1g, sugar 14g, salt 0,13