Coffee chocolate chip cookies

These cookies taste like a coffee cake but in a gooey chewy cookie form and with chunks of chocolate. I can’t tell you how delicious they are - the best thing is that you can freeze the dough and then you can have cookies whenever you want!

Coffee chocolate chip cookies

MAKES 18 - 20

125g unsalted butter, softened

175g light brown sugar

100g caster sugar 

½ tsp sea salt flakes + a pinch

1 large egg 

2 tbsp coffee granules mixed with 2 tbsp boiling water (allow to cool slightly)

1 tsp vanilla paste

300g plain flour 

½ tsp baking powder

200g dark chocolate, chopped into chunks 

1 Heat oven to 190C/ 170C fan/ gas 4. And line 2 large baking trays with non-stick baking paper or a silicone mat.

2 Beat together the butter, light brown sugar, caster sugar and salt together until creamy, pale and smooth. Beat in the egg, coffee and vanilla and mix again (don’t worry if it looks split at this stage)

3 Tip in the flour and baking powder and mix until combined and you have a thick pliable mixture. Gently fold in the dark chocolate until it’s incorporated.

4 Take 50g of the mixture (you can weigh each one to be accurate or weigh one and eyeball the rest). And roll it into a ball. Continue with the rest of the dough. You can bake them now at this point or keep in them in the fridge for up to a week or in the freezer covered for 3 months.

5 Place onto the prepared baking trays spreading them out with about 8cm between them. With the palm of gently press down until they’re around 2 - 3 cm thick and sprinkle with some sea salt flakes.

6 Bake for 10 - 12 mins until golden brown, remove from the oven, allow to cool completely and then enjoy!

TIP: When they come out of the oven you can shape them into a perfect circle. Take a large flat edged cookie cutter which is slightly larger than the cookie and move it in a circular motion around the cookie, which is re-shape it into a perfect circle.