Name: Chilli chocolate cookies
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 32 min
Yield: Makes 40 cookies
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 225g unsalted butter softened; 100g caster sugar; 175g dark muscovado sugar; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 2 eggs beaten; 300g plain flour; 50g cocoa powder; 1 tsp baking powder; 1 ½ tsp cayenne pepper (less or more to taste); 100g bar dark chilli chocolate roughly chopped; 100g bar white chocolate roughly chopped; 100g bar dark chocolate roughly chopped; vanilla ice cream

Chilli chocolate cookies

A big pile of spiced double chocolate chip biscuits next to a tub of ice cream is an easy way to feed a crowd

32 min total 20 min prep 12 min cook Makes 40 cookies 142 cal

Instructions

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1 Beat the butter and sugars together, then gradually mix in the vanilla and eggs. In another bowl, combine the flour, cocoa, a pinch of salt, baking powder and cayenne pepper, then mix these into the butter and fold in all the chocolate.
2 Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Place walnut-sized spoonfuls of the mixture on baking sheets lined with baking parchment, leaving enough space between so they don’t melt together. Bake in batches, for 10-12 mins, depending on how gooey you like your cookies. Allow to cool on the baking sheets for 1 min before removing to a plate to cool completely. Serve with vanilla ice cream.