Chocolate Chunk Pecan Cookies

posted in Food & Drink on 5/24/2016

You can't beat American-style cookies with big chunks of chocolate and nuts. The perfect grown-up biscuit.

Prep: 15 mins Cook: 12 mins Level: Easy Makes 12 Nutritional Info: per biscuit Calories - 294 Fat - 20g Saturates - 8g Carbs - 27g Sugars - 17g Fibre - 2g Protein - 4g Salt - 0.44g

Ingredients: 200g dark chocolate, broken into squares 100g butter, chopped 50g light muscovado sugar 85g golden caster sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 egg, beaten 100g whole pecan 100g plain flour 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

1. Heat oven to 180C/356F. Melt 85g chocolate in the microwave on high for 1 min or over a pan of simmering water.

2. Beat in the butter, sugars, vanilla and egg until smooth, then stir in 3/4 of both the nuts and remaining chocolate, then the flour and bicarbonate of soda.

3. Heap 12 spoonfuls, spaced apart, on 2 baking sheets (don't spread the mixture), then poke in the reserved nuts and chocolate. Bake for 12 mins until firm, then leave to cool on the sheets. Can be stored in a tin for up to 3 days.

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