I made these luscious cookies a year or so ago. I am about to do one of my favourite things – experiment with chocolate chip cookie recipes to find the perfect chewy, not too soft not too hard chocoaltely treat! Kind of the goldilocks of cookies!
So to inspire my research efforts, I am posting again the chocolate cookie recipe from Jamie Oliver’s Comfort Food. They’re dense, chewy, deeply chocolately with dark chocolate and white chocolate and with the added malty flavour of Horlicks and Malteasers.
The recipe is quite unusual too – condensed milk instead of sugar for the ingredients, and there are no eggs. The method is also different from a normal cookie recipe. Jamie suggests serving a couple of cookies sandwiched together with vanilla ice cream – I thought that mascarpone might be nice – it doesn’t melt and it’s not too sweet.
Ingredients
50 g unsalted butter
200 g quality dark chocolate
1 x 396 g tin of condensed milk
25 g ground almonds
2 heaped teaspoons Horlicks*
200 g self-raising flour
100 g Malteasers
50 g quality white chocolate
* I omitted the Horlicks – I didn’t have any – and the cookies still tasted quite malty with just the Malteasers.
Method
Melt the butter and chocolate in a pan on a low heat until smooth and combined, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat and stir in the condensed milk, followed by the almonds andHorlicks. Sift in the flour and a pinch of sea salt, mix together, then chill in the fridge for 20 to 30 minutes (no longer). Once cool, but still pliable,smash up theMaltesers and roughly chop the white chocolate, then mix it all together.Preheat the oven to 170° degrees C. Divide the mixture into 24 equal-sized balls and place on a couple of large baking trays lined withgreaseproof or baking paper. Flatten each a little (you can freeze them at this stage to bake another day if you like), then bake for around 12 minutes, or until chewy in the middle and firm at the edges. Leave to sit in the tray for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool.
Serve on the cookies their own, or sandwich together with ice cream, whipped cream or mascarpone. Scatter over chocolate shavings or drizzle with melted chocolate.
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