Giant chocolate chunk cookie with spelt and sea salt

Giant chocolate chunk cookie recipe

I love the reaction when I bring this giant chocolate chunk cookie out after dinner. Adults momentarily turn back into children. Children can’t believe their eyes. This recipe is a doddle to make and a joy to eat, and it can be frozen so you will always have a dreamy fuss-free dessert on hand.

Use whatever chocolate is in season or in your cupboard

Play around with the chocolate to suit you. I find all milk chocolate too sweet so I mix dark and milk chocolate. Even dark chocolate haters enjoy this mix as the rest of the cookie is sweet enough to balance it out. For Easter, I squished a few mini eggs in too and they added a gorgeous crunch, the chocolate melts inside the shell so you get little surprises as you chomp.

Giant chocolate chunk cookie – love at first site

I first had this in a restaurant in Seattle, where it came in the lovely black cast iron skillet (frying pan) it had been cooked in. The pan sat on a wooden board with a jar of ice cream sitting next to it, ready to be dumped on top. Cooking in cast iron pans gives a lovely crust to the cookie, but not many of us have them at home, so you can make this in a regular non-stick frying pan or a glass or ceramic pie dish. I recently made this in my Netherton Foundry Prospector pan and it worked a dream.