Cookie recipes from 5 top chefs using Guittard Chocolate Chips
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5 chefs share their chocolate chip cookie recipes

Hosting a friend for a cuppa in the garden? Make a batch of these scrumptious chocolate cookie recipes to accompany your brew

Cookie recipes. Image: Waitrose

Image: Waitrose (L-R: Mudslide cookies, brown butter miso chocolate chip, sea salt caramel, double chocolate hazelnut streusel shortbread and chocolate chip)

Earlier this week at Good Homes HQ, we embraced all four seasons over the spring bank holiday – including sunshine, rain and snow!

And whilst we have the best intentions to offer our guests small plates of food inspired by our Mediterranean holidays abroad, let’s face it – the unpredictable British weather is more suited to warm cup of tea and a round of biscuits.

So we’ve compiled the ultimate chocolate chip cookie recipes from TV chef and presenter, Rosemary Shrager; master chocolatier, Paul A Young; restauranteur and chef, Adam Handling; micro-bakery owner and patissiere, Zakiyah Syeda and cookbook author and caterer, Milli Taylor. Each were tasked with using Guittard chocolate chips to celebrate their launch in Waitrose stores.

Easter may be over, but there’s no excuse not to get cracking with these choccy cookie recipes…

Zakiyah Syeda’s double chocolate hazelnut streusel shortbread biscuits

Makes 12

Nuts about a certain hazelnut-chocolate spread? This tea time favourite will have you reaching for the biscuit tin. This cookie recipe has been created by Zakiyah Syeda to celebrate the launch of Guittard Chocolate Chips launching into Waitrose stores nationwide. It is an adaptation of the ones shown above on her Instagram page.

Ingredients

  • 175g plain flour
  • 30g cocoa powder
  • 3g bicarbonate of soda
  • 2g salt
  • 150g butter
  • 120g light brown soft sugar
  • 50g caster sugar
  • 150g Guittard Maxi Milk Chocolate Chips
  • 150g whole roasted hazelnuts
  • 75g cacao nibs
  • Maldon sea salt to sprinkle

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 170°c. Sieve and mix together the flour, cocoa powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt. Set aside.
  2. Cream the butter and both sugars until fluffy.
  3. Fold in the dries until nearly combined, it should still look crumbly and a bit unmixed to avoid over working the gluten.
  4. Then add the chocolate, hazelnuts and cacao nibs. Mix together until just incorporated. You want to mix as little as possible.
  5. Mould the dough into a log, with a diameter of 8cm. Wrap in cling film and refrigerate overnight or for a minimum of 2 hours.
  6. Cut 1.5cm slices, weighing 60-70g each and place onto a baking tray.
  7. Bake in the oven for 12 minutes. Could go a little longer for a crunchier texture or a bit less for a chewier biscuit.
  8. Leave to cool down before eating for optimum shortbread crunch.

Milli Taylor’s brown butter miso chocolate chip cookies

 

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These cookies are salty, sweet and moreish. The brown butter adds a beautiful nuttiness to the cookies and the white miso adds a savoury and umami depth that really complements the sweet chocolate. This cookie recipe was created by Milli Taylor to celebrate the launch of Guittard Chocolate Chips launching into Waitrose stores nationwide. It is an adaptation of her Instagrammable signature bakes pictured above.

Makes 7-8

Ingredients

  • 125g browned butter, cooled to room temperature
  • 120g light brown sugar
  • 1 medium egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla paste
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp bicarbonate soda
  • 50g white miso
  • 200g plain flour
  • 150g Guittard Maxi milk chocolate chips

Method

  1. With an electric whisk, beat butter and sugar until fluffy, add egg and vanilla, then add miso. Whisk to come together.
  2. Sift in flour and powders and then fold together with a big spoon.
  3. Add the chocolate chips and form into balls of 90g, cover and refrigerate for at least an hour (or overnight).
  4. Place balls onto a lined baking tray and bake in a well preheated oven (160fan/180c convection) for 14 minutes.
  5. Leave to cool on the tray.
Chef’s tip for this cookie recipe:

“You want them a little under baked, to be still damp in the middle at this stage, set with a good crust on the outside but with good chew in the middle.”

Adam Handling’s mudslide cookies

Cookie recipes. Image: Waitrose
Mudslide cookies pictured first left.  Image credit: Waitrose

Ingredients

  • 90g milk chocolate
  • 250g dark chocolate
  • 55g butter
  • 3 eggs
  • 225g sugar
  • 10g vanilla essence
  • 50g plain flour
  • 3g baking powder (half a teaspoon)
  • 220g milk chocolate

Method

  1. Melt the two first chocolates with the butter over a bain-marie (a pot of water with a bowl on top). Whisk the eggs, vanilla, salt and sugar until they double in volume – similar to whipped cream.
  2. Sieve the dry ingredients together. Fold the eggs into the chocolate, then add the dry ingredients and lastly, the 220g milk chocolate.
  3. Chill the mixture for a few hours or even better, overnight.
  4. Weigh 45g and roll into small balls, place onto a silpat mat, leaving them spaced apart. Cook at 160°C for 15 minutes.
Chef’s top tips
  • Oven must be pre-heated
  • Space the cookie dough when on the tray
  • When cooked, remove the tray from the oven and leave to rest for 10 minutes – they will feel very soft but will set when cool!

Rosemary Shrager’s chocolate chip cookies

Ingredients

  • 200g butter, softened
    200g soft light brown sugar
  • 250g plain flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 5g Guittard cocoa powder
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • Zest of one orange
  • 50g walnuts crushed
  • 200g Guittard extra dark chocolate chips

Method

  1. In a large mixing bowl whisk the soft butter until fluffy and pale, now add the brown sugar, whisk until well incorporated.
  2. After this, add half the flour with the baking powder and cocoa powder and mix well
  3. Next add the eggs one at a time, add the vanilla, orange zest and mix well, add the rest of the flour, walnuts and chocolate pieces and mix well.
  4. Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper and take a rounded teaspoon of mixture and put on the tray. Make sure you space each spoonful at least 5cm apart, place into a preheated oven at 190c/Gas mark 5 for 10 minutes.
  5. Remove when they start to turn slightly brown on the edges. Carefully lift each cookie on to a wire rack to cool.

Paul A Young’s sea salted caramel sandwich cookies

Mixed Cookie recipes from 5 top chefs using Guittard Chocolate Chips. Image: Waitrose | Good Homes Magazine

Sea salted caramel cookies are largest showed above. Image credit: Waitrose

What Paul A Young said:

“Chocolate chip cookies fresh from the oven with a soft centre are so incredible, it’s hard to put into words. I always have to make double the amount that I had originally planned as I know they won’t last long! Take two chocolate chip cookies sandwiched together, with dark chocolate sea salted caramel and finally, dip them in milk chocolate and you will have created the best chocolate cookie ever.”

“It’s everything you want and more in a cookie, slightly crunchy, soft chewy middle, melting caramel and creamy milk chocolate and this is the recipe. Oh and double the cookie recipe, you know that you won’t share as many as you planned.”

Makes 15 sandwich cookies

For the cookie dough
  • 190g plain flour
  • 125g Billington’s unrefined caster sugar
  • 205g Billington’s unrefined light muscovado sugar
  • 145g melted butter cooled
  • 1 large egg
  • 125g Guittard milk chocolate chips
  • 125g Guittard dark bitter sweet chocolate chips
  • 1 tsp Cornish sea salt crystals crushed
  • 1 tsp vanilla paste
  • 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
For the caramel
  • 100g unsalted butter
  • 75g dark chocolate 70% cacao solids or above
  • 100g light muscovado sugar
  • 100g double cream
  • 1 teaspoon Cornish sea salt flakes well crushed
To make the cookie dough
  1. Mix all the dry ingredients in a large bowl, rubbing the mixture together to break up the sugar.
  2. Add the Vanilla extract, beaten eggs and melted butter, mix well to form a dough.
  3. Allow the dough to sit for 10 minutes to rest and firm up.
  4. Scoop and weigh 30g balls and place onto plastic trays lined with baking paper rolling them into even sized balls.
  5. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees. Line a baking tray with baking paper making sure the paper is totally flat.
  6. Place 4 balls of dough onto the tray spaced evenly and making sure they do not spread on to the raised edges of the tray.
  7. Bake for exactly 10 minutes and no longer! Even if they look a bit under done. This will ensure the middle is soft and chewy.
  8. Remove from the oven and tap the tray on your surface to flatten out the cookies.
  9. After 10 minutes of cooling, using a pallet knife, lift them off carefully onto a cooling wire.
  10. Repeat the above steps until you have baked all of your cookies and once they are all cool – pair them into even sizes.
To make the dark sea salted caramel:
  1. In a medium sized saucepan melt the butter, sea salt and sugar. Bring to the simmer and then stir constantly for exactly 2 minutes.Take off the heat and add the cream, mixing well.
  2. Whisk in the chocolate until it’s fully melted and tip into a container. Once completely cold, refrigerate for half an hour.
To sandwich the cookies
  1. Have 200g of melted milk chocolate in a small bowl at a temperature of 45°c
  2. Chop another 100g of milk chocolate into small pieces and mix it into the melted milk chocolate until fully melted. This is called seeding and will temper your chocolate so it’s smooth and sets evenly.
  3. Lay the cookies onto your work surface with the underside facing upwards. Lift one cookie on to the scales and spoon on 20g of caramel into the centre and repeat with half of the cookies.
  4. Spoon or use a piping bag to pipe a ring of milk chocolate around the edge of the caramel to surround the caramel with a halo of chocolate.
  5. Sandwich another cookie on top of each and press until the milk chocolate nearly reaches the edge of the cookies and pop in the fridge for 15 minutes to set.

Store your cookies airtight to keep them fresh for two weeks.

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