Chewy cookies anyone?

[DrTrillianAstra]

Does anyone know how to makae chewy cookies?

I say cookies specifically because I want chewy ones, IMHO biscuits are hard and crunchy, and sadly that's all I ever seem to end up with when I make biscuity/cookie-y recipes. If I wanted a crunchy biscuit I would buy a hobnob. {grin]

TIA

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i agree, cookies should be chewy in the middle
iirc those tubes you can get from the supermarket with pre made dough are good
but you want a recipe because you're a grown up

I may or may not be a grownup, but those tubes of dough cost as much as just buying cookies from the bakery section, and anyway I wanted to play at baking, and that includes getting flour everywhere.

There was a thread recently where a recipe "just like millies" cookies was posted. Unfortunatley my searching skilsl are laking today and I can't find it.

Also not a recipe but Asda do boxes that you just add water to for 77p, and as they have to be mixed and rolled out you can pretend you are a grown up and baking.
That's waht I do anyway

This thread probably?

It has a recipe for 122 cookies! I wonder if I can quarter it? Or eighth it? I'll probably balls it up the first time anyway.

That was teh one....they are on my list of things to bake....

I would need more baking trays and a lot more shelves in my oven to be able to take on that one.

Thanks for the directions to the thread

I think it was pointy's or Chipo's recipe that appealed most to me...

In any case you cook them in batches! They only take 10 mins.

I have a fabbo orange biscuit recipe I think they take 6 minutes and make about 90ish biscuits. It doesn't take too long.

google annable karmel white choc and cranberry cookies. that recipe works for me.

My mother used to make chewy cookies, she said its because she puts icing sugar in, not granulated.

or maybe it was caster sugar

Ooh, I almost feel I should use the h2g2 recipe out of Douglas Adams solidarity.

Although Wikipedia is fo course the real-life Hitchiker's Guide (except without paying people to go to obscure places for 'research').

I've made chipo's recipe - absolutely delicious. Makes about 20 cookies if I remember rightly.

this is a US recipe but it works like a charm (a stick of butter is 4oz)

1.5 sticks unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2/3 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups rolled oats
1 1/4 cups plain flour
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups raisins

Preheat oven to 190 degrees.
Cream butter & sugars with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg & vanilla.
Stir together the oats, flour, baking powder, bicarb & salt in another bowl.
Stir the dry ingredients into the batter until just combined, stir in the raisins.
Drop the dough by heaping tablespoons onto 2 large baking sheets, leaving 2 inches between each ball of dough.
Bake until golden brown (about 12 minutes, depending on your oven)
Cool cookies on sheets for 5 minutes then transfer to a rack to cool further.

Take them out VERY promptly! They keep on cooking a bit when they're just out, so at that stage where you'd normally think oh just one more minute, get them out of there!

banana fudge cookies

dangerous business...the recipe makes a lot and they are very moreish.