Gluten free chocolate cookies
These GIANT gluten free chocolate cookies are chewy and delicious, with a gorgeous crackle and are perfect sprinkled with a little sea salt to finish. This recipe makes 12 giant cookies - or you can easily make more smaller ones if you prefer!
Servings: 12
Ingredients
- 110 g unsalted butter
- 350 g light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 260 g self-raising gluten free flour I use FREEE by Doves Farm
- 50 g cocoa powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 100 g milk chocolate chips
- Sea salt flakes optional, to serve
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 180'C / Fan 160'C / Gas Mark 4. Line two large baking trays with baking paper and set to one side.
- Melt the butter in a large pan on a low heat. Once melted, remove from the heat immediately (you don't want it to start bubbling or boiling) and stir in the sugar and the eggs. Stir well until it forms a thick, sticky batter.
- In a separate mixing bowl add the flour, cocoa powder and salt and stir to mix together. Pour the dry mixture into the butter mixture and stir with a wooden spoon well until fully combined. It will become quite thick as the butter cools so you may need some elbow grease!
- Add the chocolate chips and stir until they are evenly distributed throughout the mix.
- To make the cookies, place around one-and-a-half heaped dessert spoonfuls of dough in blobs at least two inches apart on the baking tray. These will spread so the extra space is important - you may have to bake them in batches of 3-4 per tray depending on the size of your oven.
- Smooth the blobs of dough into round shapes using your hands and then bake for 10 minutes. Remove from the oven onto a cooling rack and let them cool on the tray for at least 10-15 minutes before attempting to move them, as they will be soft!
- Sprinkle with sea salt flakes before serving.
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Notes
- This recipe will also work with golden caster sugar if you don't have light brown sugar.
- If you don't have self raising flour, add 3 tsp of baking powder to your plain gluten free flour blend.
- I always use FREEE by Doves Farm flours - using other flours may produce a different result. If your flour blend does NOT contain xanthan gum, add 1/4 tsp of xanthan gum to the mixture with the dry ingredients.
- These cookies will store for 3-5 days in an airtight container. You can also freeze them.
Nutrition
Serving: 1Cookie | Calories: 329kcal | Carbohydrates: 53g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 53mg | Sodium: 125mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 33g
