Monster Cookies for your Cookie Monsters: Madame Thermomix’s Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Monster Cookies for your Cookie Monsters: Madame Thermomix’s Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
White and dark chocolate chips make a luscious cookie
White and dark chocolate chips make a luscious cookie

Next week in the UK is what they call here “Half Term Holiday” which in the US would be Spring Vacation. Depending on the year and the weather – and alas, on the economy – families in both countries either go away or stay at home. If you’re staying at home and need things for the kids to do, here’s a kid-friendly way to use your kid-friendly Thermomix and make some everybody-friendly cookies.

I have already made Janie Turner’s brilliant, fast and easy Thermomix chocolate chip cookie recipe and it yields brilliant, crisp cookies. But my dear husband doesn’t really like them (if you could see the look of disappointment – er, glee – on my face now as I realise I have to eat them all) because he prefers a softer, chewy cookie. Thus the search for the chewy chocolate chip cookie recipe was born.

Drop quarter cupfuls to make cookie shop cookies
Drop quarter cupfuls to make cookie shop cookies

I began searching my cookbooks and the web for the perfect recipe that would yield that scrumptious chewiness that makes you drool with anticipation as you gently pull the softly yielding cookie apart. (Down girl, down!) Our familiar friend Diana from Diana’s Desserts saved the day by reprinting the quest upon which American cookbook and website Cook’s Illustrated actually embarked. From the beginning I was hooked. “After testing forty variations…” Anyone who is so devoted is a true chocoholic. Give me more! Let me be your taster, please!

To make a long story short (but one that is worth reading so do visit the sites above), it would appear that the key element to the chewy chocolate chip cookie is melted butter. Not just beaten with sugar, but melted. And real butter is essential to get the right results.

After 7 minutes my Thermomix chocolate chip cookies started puffing up
After 7 minutes my Thermomix chocolate chip cookies started puffing up

Get the kids to help with this super-easy Thermomix adapted recipe. Thermomix has so many built-in safety features, kids can happily and safely make cookies with minimal adult supervision. Melting the butter right in the Thermomix bowl at 37° C means safer handling, and no waiting for the butter to cool back down to a useable temperature.  And Thermomix is really easy for kids to use. Just push a couple of buttons and turn a dial and bingo – you’ve got the best chocolate chip cookies you ever ate in about a minute!!

Straight out of the oven! Thermomix chewy chocolate chip cookies
Straight out of the oven! Thermomix chewy chocolate chip cookies

I shall put you out of your chocolate misery and get straight to my Thermomix adaptation of the Cook’s Illustrated Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. This yields 18 ginormous (for US readers that’s both giant and enormous) cookies that are buttery, soft and chewy. I used a mix of white and dark chocolate chips and dropped them by tablespoons onto my cookie sheets. You could easily make over three dozen “normal” sized cookies for smaller appetites and lunchboxes. Watch the timing and take them out as soon as they start to harden around the edges but the insides are still puffy and soft. Thay way they come out amazingly chewy and incredibly good.

The perfect soft and chewy chocolate chip cookie made in a minute in your Thermomix
The perfect soft and chewy chocolate chip cookie made in a minute in your Thermomix

If it will make you feel any better, the longest three minutes of my life were those spent waiting for my cup of tea to properly infuse before I dove into my first bite 😉

Bon appétit !

Madame Thermomix’s Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Adapted for Thermomix from a Cook’s Illustrated Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe courtesy of Diana’s Desserts. Makes 18 very large gourmet-style cookies, 3 to 4 inches / 7 to 10 cm in diameter, or up to 6 dozen smaller cookies.

Ingredients
170 g butter, cut into small cubes to ensure even melting
240 g plain flour
½ tsp salt
½ tsp baking soda/bicarbonate
200 g light or dark brown soft sugar
100 g granulated sugar
1 large egg plus 1 egg yolk
2 tsp vanilla extract
200 g – 400 g chocolate chips or chunks, milk, plain or white or a combination

Big luscious soft and chewy groumet cookie shop chocolate chip cookies!
Big luscious soft and chewy gourmet cookie shop chocolate chip cookies!

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 160° C/325° F/gas mark 3 ½. Place your oven racks in the upper- and lower-middle positions to ensure proper air circulation.
  2. Weigh the butter cubes into the Thermomix bowl. Melt butter 37° C/7 minutes/Speed 1 or just until all the butter is melted.
  3. Weigh in remaining ingredients (except the chocolate chips). Mix 30 seconds, gradually increasing from Speed 3 to Speed 5.
  4. Scrape down the sides of the TM bowl with the spatula. Mix again 15 seconds/Speed 5.
  5. Add the chocolate chips and stir in by hand with the spatula until evenly mixed.
  6. For big gourmet cookie shop cookies: Drop ¼ cup dough balls or large tablespoonfuls/dessert spoonfuls onto lipless baking trays lined with baking paper or a silicone sheet. For normal sized cookies, use heaping teaspoonfuls.
  7. Bake, switching position of cookie sheets halfway through baking, until cookies are light golden brown and outer edges start to harden yet centres are still soft and puffy, 15 to 18 minutes. (Start checking doneness at 13 minutes.) Bake smaller cookies for 10 to 12 minutes. To ensure cookies remain soft and chewy, leave on the cookie sheets/baking trays to cool.

    Ready to dive in? Best to wait for your tea to brew...
    Ready to dive in? Best to wait for your tea to brew…

Serve warm with a glass of milk, a cup of tea or some good coffee. Store remaining cookies – ha! as if there will be any – in an airtight container.

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Perfect soft and chewy scrumptious chocolate chip cookies made in a minute in your Thermomix!
Perfect soft and chewy scrumptious chocolate chip cookies made in a minute in your Thermomix!
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9 thoughts on “Monster Cookies for your Cookie Monsters: Madame Thermomix’s Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies”

  • Thanks for your comment, Victoria, I’m glad you liked them! As for me, I’m so impatient I snaffle most of them up before they even cool down! I’ll shortly be posting a phenomenal Double Chocolate Cookie recipe so watch this space!

  • I made these on Wednesday, they are SO good. I should have been more patient and cooked fewer cookies per batch so that they don’t merge together on the baking tray but I couldn’t wait!

    I’d like to try making them with a chocolate dough next time too.

  • So glad you liked my recipe, Liv! And you’re so good, only eating a tiny bit of leftover dough. “Leftover dough” in itself is a rarity in my house, because between the cookies and the Cookie Monster (that’s me!) there is never any dough left 😉
    Please let me know how your cookies came out using gluten free flour, too. That’s a great idea, and so many people have food intolerances these days. Thank goodness for Thermomix!
    Bon appétit !

  • Thank you so much for posting this!!
    I have your cookies in my oven, cooling down. Man is this the most difficult part indeed! I ate a tiny leftover of the dough and my, it was so delicious!
    And may I say, my Thermomix was clean! Nothing sticked to the sides, all was very well mixed (I did use gluten-free flour though). Kudos, this was amazing, and the first time I ever bake chocolate chip cookies – can´t wait!

  • I’m glad your Cookie Monsters will award you Mother of the Year, but you’ll have to share the title with your Thermomix! Thanks for stopping by my blog and sharing your comment. Come back soon!

  • Oh, yum! These look delicious. I can’t wait to make these for my children – they will award me mother of the year for these. The Thermomix is just fabulous for getting a treat on the table in just a few minutes.

  • I think you’re right, Jo, the combination of melted butter and soft brown sugar is a real winner. These didn’t last the day in our house – oops!

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