Chocolate chunk pecan cookies

By Sara Buenfeld

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

Easy

Nutrition per serving

kcal 294
fat 20g
saturates 8g
carbs 27g
sugars 17g
fibre 2g
protein 4g
salt 0.44g

Ingredients

200g dark chocolate, broken into squares (we like Green & Black's)
100g butter, chopped
50g light muscovado sugar
85g golden caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg, beaten
100g whole pecans
100g plain flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Method

Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Melt 85g chocolate in the microwave on High for 1 min or over a pan of simmering water.
Beat in the butter, sugars, vanilla and egg until smooth, then stir in three-quarters of both the nuts and remaining chocolate, then the flour and bicarbonate of soda.
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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