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American

Gooey Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pecans

🍽 Serves 24⏱ Prep 20 min🔥 Cook 12 min⏳ Rest 60 min🌍 American

Big cookies with crisp edges and gooey centres, loaded with chocolate chips and pecans.

📍 Massachusetts · United States of America

The story of the dish

The chocolate chip cookie was created around 1938 by Ruth Wakefield at the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, by chopping a chocolate bar into her cookie dough.

The name: “Gooey” describes the soft, moist centre where the chocolate stays melted and the cookie remains chewy

Ingredients

IngredientEUg · mlUScups · spoons
cake flour360 g3 cups
baking powder10 g2 tsp
brown sugar240 g1¼ cups
eggs100 g2 eggs
butter soft360 g1½ cups
chocolate chips300 g1¾ cups
pecan nuts roughly chopped300 g2½ cups
salt≈ 2 g≈ ½ tsp

≈ amount suggested from similar recipes

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Also used: stand mixer · baking tray · baking paper · cookie scoop

Method

  1. Cream the butter and brown sugar until light.
  2. Beat in the eggs one at a time.
  3. Fold in the flour, baking powder and salt, then the chocolate chips and pecans.
  4. Rest the dough in the fridge for at least 1 hour.
  5. Shape balls of about 70 g on a lined tray, leaving space between them.
  6. Bake at 180°C (355°F) for 10 to 12 minutes, until the edges are golden and the centres still soft; cool on the tray.

🌡️ Oven 180°C (355°F)

👨‍🍳 Chef’s tips
  • Take them out while the centre still looks underbaked: it sets as it cools.
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Nutrition per portion estimate · 1 of 24

330kcal
4 gprotein
27 gcarbs
24 gfat

Allergens

GlutenEggsMilkTree nuts

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