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Jam On Toast Cookies

Makes / serves: 12 cookies

Experimental recipe

Method

  1. Make the original dough with white chocolate and chill 12–24 hours.
  2. Toast breadcrumbs in butter until golden, stir in sugar and cool.
  3. Portion dough, make shallow wells and add roughly 1 tsp thick jam to each; do not swirl wet jam through all the dough.
  4. Add a little toast crumb.
  5. Trial 2 cookies first at 160°C fan for about 12–15 minutes, checking centres set at edges while staying soft.
  6. Cool on tray 15 minutes before assessing spread and texture.
Recipe details

Prior jam-swirl batches collapsed and initially had underbaked centres. This jam-centre trial is new and untested; preserve Recipe 01 separately.

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Brown-Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies

12 large cookies. Use the amount specified in the main recipe.

  • 170g ASDA salted butter, weighed before browning.
  • 160g light brown sugar.
  • 80g caster sugar.
  • 1 large egg plus 1 yolk.
  • 2 tsp vanilla.
  • 260g plain flour.
  • 10g baking powder.
  • 200g chopped chocolate.
  • NO added salt or bicarbonate.
  1. Brown butter over medium heat until milk solids turn nutty golden, then pour into a bowl, keeping browned bits, and cool until warm not hot.
  2. Mix in sugars, then egg, yolk and vanilla.
  3. Fold in flour and baking powder, then chocolate.
  4. Divide into 12 equal portions, cover and refrigerate 12–24 hours.
  5. Remove about 1 hour before baking.
  6. Bake spaced well apart at 170°C fan for 10–12 minutes, until edges set and centres still soft.
  7. Rest on hot tray 10–15 minutes, then rack 10–15 minutes.
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