Ultimate cookies

Name: Ultimate cookies
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 27 min
Yield: 14
Ingredients: 110 g unsalted butter, softened; 100 g caster sugar; 60 g light brown muscovado sugar; 1 free range egg; ½ tsp vanilla extract; ¼ tsp sea salt flakes; ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda; 190 g plain flour

Who doesn't love cookies with a soft centre? This recipe is the best of the best, making sure your cookies ooze with a melting chocolate centre every time. Enjoy while warm and be warned - one won't be enough. Discover more enticing cookie recipes to while away an afteroon. Angela Hartnett serves this recipe for Nick Grimshaw and guest Andrew Garfield on episode 36, 2026 of Dish, the Waitrose podcast, following Finca Lalande Organic Malbec and smash cheeseburgers with burger sauce. The meal is paired with a Warsteiner Beer.

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Vegetarian

Makes14
CourseSnack
Prepare15 mins
Cook12 mins
Total time27 mins
Pluschilling

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For the cookie dough base

110g unsalted butter, softened
100g caster sugar
60g light brown muscovado sugar
1 free range egg
½ tsp vanilla extract
¼ tsp sea salt flakes
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
190g plain flour

For the flavourings

75g white chocolate, cut into chunks
75g toasted pistachios, roughly chopped
½ unwaxed lemon, zest

or

75g sultanas
75g pecans, roughly chopped
½ tsp cinnamon

or

50g milk chocolate, cut into chunks
50g white chocolate, cut into chunks
50g dark chocolate, cut into chunks

or

75g hazelnuts, toasted and roughly chopped
75g dark chocolate, cut into chunks
½ orange, scrubbed, zest

Use electric beaters to cream together the butter and sugars for 3-4 minutes, until pale and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla; beat until combined. Add the salt, bicarbonate and flour; bring together with a wooden spoon. Choose your flavourings and stir through. Cover with clingfilm; chill for at least 1 hour.
Preheat the oven to 200˚C, gas mark 6. Line 2 baking trays with parchment. Roll 2 heaped tsp dough into a ball in your hands. Put on the lined trays and flatten slightly. Repeat with the remaining dough, spacing the cookies well apart.
Bake for 10-12 minutes, until the edges are just turning golden. Leave to cool on the tray for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

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