Colossal Choc Chip Cookie: the archived recipe

Condensed from the original account by Alice (Tails), published 2006-08-12. The quantities and method are the contributor’s; this is not a new kitchen test.

Ingredients recorded

4 bars of plain chocolate, 100 g each

170 g sour cream

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

3 eggs

300 g white sugar

A pinch of salt

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

300 g plain flour

200 g butter

The account lists four large bars of chocolate without a weight; the ingredient photograph shows four 100 g Tesco Value plain chocolate bars, and this card records that pack size. The contributor described the result as not for dunking; no cooling time or yield is recorded.

Method recorded

Heat the oven to 210 °C. Melt the butter and 2 of the chocolate bars together in a pan until smooth.

Sift together the flour, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and salt and set aside.

In another bowl, beat the sugar, eggs and vanilla until light and fluffy.

Mix the melted chocolate mixture into the egg mixture until well blended.

Stir the dry ingredients into the chocolate mixture, alternating with the sour cream.

Break the remaining 2 bars of chocolate into chunks and stir them in.

Place the mixture on a flat, greased baking tray and shape it into one round cookie.

Bake for 12 to 15 minutes; the account gives no cooling time.

The original account

Hi, my name is Alice; I am a thirteen year old girl from Colchester. I looked up this website when I saw it featured on ‘Gordon Ramsay’s F-word’ and thought it was quite cool so gave it a try. I decided to make my all time favorite snack, a double chocolate chip cookie! And this particular cookie turned out even better because I ended up using 4 huge bars of chocolate! For all the exact amount of ingredients it cost approximately £2.57. Here is the recipe I used:

Ingredients:

4 large bars of chocolate
170g sour cream
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
3 eggs
300g white sugar
pinch of salt
teaspoon of baking powder
teaspoon of baking soda
300g of plain flour
200g of butter

Ingredients laid out on a wooden table: flour, sugar, butter, vanilla, plain chocolate and choc chip cookies

Pre-heat the oven to 210 C. Then put the butter and 2 of the bars of chocolate into a pan and heat until they are melted together. Melt them until they are smooth. This stuff should just look like melted chocolate and it will taste delicious!

Melted dark chocolate being stirred with a spoon in a saucepan on the hob

2. Then sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt, and then set them aside.

Pink mixing bowl of flour balanced on kitchen scales while a hand stirs it

3. Then in a small bowl beat together the sugar, the eggs, and the vanilla until they are light and fluffy.

Pale creamed butter, sugar and egg mixture beaten by hand in a blue bowl

4. Mix the chocolate mixture into the egg mixture until it is well blended.

Melted chocolate poured from the saucepan into the blue bowl of pale batter

5. Stir in the dry ingredient mix into the chocolate mix, alternately with the sour cream.

A dollop of soured cream sitting on the dark chocolate mixture, ready to fold in

6. Break up the rest of the chocolate into blocks and stir in with the mix.

Squares of plain chocolate scattered over the chocolate dough in the blue mixing bowl

7. Then place the mix onto a flat, greased baking tray and shape it into a cookie shape.

Raw dough spread into a big round on a baking tray, studded with chocolate squares

8. Bake for 12 – 15 minutes. It should come out looking something like this:

Girl carrying the baked cookie on a tray in front of the kitchen cooker

9. Enjoy!

The finished cookie on a table beside a glass of milk, dwarfing a normal cookie in a hand

Needless to say it was not for dunking!

Colossal Choc Chip Cookie

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