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- Cookie Traybake -

  • 250g plain flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 170g butter, melted (this is one and a half sticks)
  • 200g dark brown soft sugar (about 1 cup)
  • 100g caster sugar (1/2 a cup)
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract/vanilla bean paste
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 large egg yolk
  • 325g milk chocolate chips (honestly, anything from 200ish to 324 grams works too.) (Bout a cup and a half)
  • 9 inch Baking tray for baking on

- instructions -

  1. Get the oven to 170 C / Gas mark 3. If you have a fan oven, you should set it 20c cooler, so 150c. For americans, that's 338°F or 302 on a fan oven.
  2. Grease baking trays or line with parchment paper, either works.
  3. Sift together the flour, bicarb and salt; set aside.
  4. In a medium bowl, cream together the melted butter, brown sugar and caster sugar until well blended.
  5. Then beat in the vanilla, egg and egg yolk until light and creamy. Mix in the sifted ingredients until it's just blended.
  6. Stir in the chocolate chips by hand using a wooden spoon. this is done by hand because if you use a machine they just all get stuck in the whisk.
  7. Put the mix into a baking tray, spread it out to about an inch or two thick all around.
  8. Bake for 15 to 17 minutes in the preheated oven, or until it's golden and looks cooked. Cool it for a few minutes before cutting it up into slices, then, when it's cool enough to eat, eat it. Or not, whatever suits you.
  9. If you have a big enough tray, you can make it into actual cookies. Just dump like, a tablespoon onto the sheet, about your thumbs width apart from each other for THE S P R E A D. If you have more batter than you can fit on your trays, roll it into a wide sausage like a big ol salami and wrap it in cling film or tin foil and put it in the freezer it'll last for a little while and you can cut it up into slices like a salami and take the frozen slices and bake them straight away when you do have space. Baker hacks.

FAQ

Q: "isnt that a lot of chocolate for a small recipe?"

A: do you want a fudgy chocolate center or not?

Q: "the base of the traybake is kind of oily. is that bad?"

A: I said it was a good recipe, not a clean one. wrap it in a paper towel while you eat.

Q: "it's kind of small, can I make it bigger?"

A: yes of course but keep an eye on it while it bakes.