Chocolate chip cookies
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Chewy chocolate chip cookies: melting-and-mixing, shaping even balls and spacing them for the oven.
- Makes 16
- About 35 min
- Oven
- Best for: KS2 (ages 7–11)
- Vegetarian
Ingredients
- 115 g butter, soft – contains milk
- 100 g demerara or soft brown sugar
- 50 g caster sugar
- 1 medium egg – contains eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 180 g plain flour – contains gluten
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 pinch salt
- 100 g chocolate chips – contains milk
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Equipment
- digital scales
- mixing bowl
- wooden spoon
- 2 baking trays
- baking parchment
- tablespoon
- oven gloves
- cooling rack
- fish slice
Safety first
- Wash your hands with soap for at least 20 seconds, tie back long hair and put on a clean apron.
- Ask about allergies before anyone cooks or tastes. This recipe contains: gluten, eggs, milk.
- Wash your hands after cracking eggs.
- Do not eat raw dough or cake mixture – raw flour and raw egg can carry harmful bacteria.
- Use dry oven gloves for anything that has been in the oven or under the grill.
Allergens: Cereals containing gluten, Eggs, Milk. Some brands may also contain soya, tree nuts, peanuts. Always read every label and ask about allergies before anyone cooks or tastes.
Method
- An adult turns the oven on to 180 °C (160 °C fan, gas 4). Line the trays.
- Beat the butter and both sugars until creamy. Beat in the egg and vanilla. Wash your hands after cracking the egg. (2 min)
- Stir in the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt, then the chocolate chips.
- Roll the dough into 16 balls and put them on the trays, well apart – they spread. Do not eat the raw dough.
- An adult puts the trays in the oven. Bake until golden at the edges but still soft in the middle. (11 min)
- Adult: Leave on the trays for 5 minutes to firm up, then an adult moves them to the rack. Melted chocolate stays very hot. (5 min)
What this recipe teaches
Using an oven safely, Creaming (beating butter and sugar), Mixing, Shaping and cutting out. Steps marked “Adult” are always done by an adult; steps marked “Teacher-led” are done by an adult for primary-age children.
Nutrition per serving
| Energy | 692 kJ / 165 kcal |
|---|---|
| Fat | 8.1 g |
| of which saturates | 4.9 g |
| Carbohydrate | 22.8 g |
| of which sugars | 13.7 g |
| Fibre | 0.8 g |
| Protein | 1.7 g |
| Salt | 0.25 g |
Worked out from the raw ingredients (optional ones and pinches not counted) using CoFID 2021 (McCance and Widdowson’s Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset, Public Health England). Brands vary – check labels.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0: McCance and Widdowson’s The Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset 2021, Public Health England.
Eatwell Guide groups in this recipe: Potatoes, bread, rice, pasta and other starchy carbohydrates; Beans, pulses, fish, eggs, meat and other proteins. Learn about the Eatwell Guide.
Foods high in fat, salt or sugar sit outside the Eatwell Guide – enjoy them less often and in small amounts.
Curriculum links
- KS2 D&T – Cooking and nutrition: “understand and apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet”
- KS2 D&T – Cooking and nutrition: “prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking techniques”
Try the interactive lesson
Step by step: a quick safety check, questions marked by Classfern, timers for each cooking step, then an honest look at how it went – a teacher or parent judges the cooking, and learners rate their own work. Photos of the finished dish stay at home.
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