Chewy Chocolate Orange Soft Cookies

Step 1

Cube the 85 grams Unsalted Butter small (about 1cm, ⅓") & allow the butter to soften & come to room temperature quicker. Make sure the egg is at room temperature too.

Step 2

Add the softened butter to a mixing bowl & beat before adding in the 100 grams Light Brown Sugar & 25 grams Granulated Sugar & creaming together. Heat the oven to 180°c/160°c fan oven/350°f/Gas Mark 4 .

Step 3

Beat in 1 Egg & 1½ tsp Orange Extract (or homemade vanilla extract), mixing until combined. Add the 125 grams Plain Flour, ½ tsp Bicarbonate of Soda (Baking Soda) & 1 tsp Cornflour (Corn Starch), mixing only until everything is incorporated. Fold in ⅓ of the 90 grams Chocolate chips at a time until all evenly distributed.

Step 4

Paper line the 2 baking trays/cookies sheets, holding in place with Frylight cooking spray, butter or cake release spray. DO NOT bake without paper or a silicone baking mat.

Step 5

Add rounded tbsp worth of cookie dough to the prepared baking tray/sheet, leaving at least 5cm/2" in-between each cookie, making sure not to flatten the dough. The cookie dough should yield about 14 large cookies.

Step 6

Place in the fridge only until the oven is ready (but not for longer than 10 minutes). Bake in the centre of the oven, for 8-10 minutes until golden brown, edges are set, the middle is soft, slightly under-baked and the cookies have spread to about 3"/7½cm wide. **If your oven bakes uneven, rotate and swap the trays after 6 minutes of baking.

Step 7

Leave to cool on the tray, on top of a cooling rack for 3 minutes before transferring with the paper, to the cooling rack only, & leaving for about 5 minutes.

Step 8

Enjoy freshly baked cookies with a cold glass of milk, or your favourite hot beverage.

Step 9

To last longer, these chocolate orange soft cookies should be stored in a metal cake or cookie tin. (Make sure to add to the tin, within 1 hour of baking if not consuming). Where they will remain soft and good for up to 10 days. Plastic containers or food bags are not recommended as they can make the cookies go hard. Unbaked cookie portions can be flash-frozen on a tray before adding to a labelled food bag & frozen for up to 4 months1.