Millie's cookie recipe

Name: Millie's cookie recipe
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 175 g unsalted butter, softened; 100 g caster sugar; 100 g light brown soft sugar; 2 medium eggs; 1 tsp. vanilla essence; 250 g self-raising flour; 1/2 tsp. salt; 200 g dark chocolate chips; 125 g unsalted butter, softened; 250 g icing sugar; 1/4 tsp. vanilla essence; Splash of milk; Your choice of food colourings; Your choice of decorations

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By Karen WilliamsPublished: 15 December 2023

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Millie's Cookies are hands down god-tier when it comes to shop-bought cookies. And at least once in your life, you've had a giant Millie's Cookie cake as a gift, amiright?

Here at Cosmo we love a good cookie recipe, but Millie's Cookies are by far one of our FAVOURITE things to eat. Gooey, sweet, and the perfect ratio of chocolate to dough, we love them in small cookie form and those giant cookie cakes you always got for your birthday.

Here are some tips to get that Millie's Cookie cake JUST right:

Use a springform tin

Honestly, do not make the mistake of doing without. You need the clip to be able to get your gorge cookie cake out with ruining it.

Reach for the brown sugar

Lots of choc chip cookie recipes call for even parts white and brown sugar just like we have for that Millie's Cookie richness. But for that chewy, caramel-like flavour, use a little more brown.

Butter is your BFF

Sure, there are plenty of substitutes to butter, margarine makes cookies spread wafer-thin, and you want your dough. tobe extra-fluffy. If you want this cookie to be more like cookie dough (but then technically we're not making a Millie's Cookie... swap the butter for cream cheese. Oh, and make sure that butter is room temp baby!

Perfect that buttercream!

The most important ingredient in buttercream is, naturally, the butter. The temperature of your butter when you start making the buttercream will determine how well your frosting turns out. Too cold and it will be lumpy, too warm and it'll most likely not hold its shape. For the perfect temperature leave your butter out at room temperature until it's easy to press your thumb into it with only slight pressure! Don't forget the splash of milk, too. This just helps the buttercream to loosen up slightly.

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Yields:

Prep Time:

20 mins

Cook Time:

30 mins

Total Time:

50 mins

Ingredients

For the cookie

175 g
unsalted butter, softened
100 g
caster sugar
100 g
light brown soft sugar
2
medium eggs
1 tsp.
vanilla essence
250 g
self-raising flour
1/2 tsp.
salt
200 g
dark chocolate chips

For the buttercream

125 g
unsalted butter, softened
250 g
icing sugar
1/4 tsp.
vanilla essence
Splash of milk
Your choice of food colourings
Your choice of decorations

Directions

1. Step 1Preheat oven to 200ºC (180ºC Fan) and grease a 23cm round springform tin.
2. Step 2Cream the butter and sugars together until light and fluffy (about 5 mins). Beat in the eggs and vanilla. Fold in the flour and salt with a large metal spoon until combined, then fold in the chocolate chips.
3. Step 3Tip into prepared tin and spread to level. Bake for 30 mins. Allow to cool completely in the tin.
4. Step 4Make the buttercream: beat butter and sugar together until smooth then beat in vanilla and milk. Divide the mixture into as many colours as you have, leaving one white. Pipe your desired message onto your cookie and decorate.

Karen Williams

Karen Williams is a Leith's trained recipe developer and shoot assistant, with years of experience working on magazine and food video shoots. Karen loves trying out new ways to create easy dishes and is especially good at gorgeous one-pots and makes a mean brownie!

When Karen isn't developing recipes for Delish UK, you might find her helping out on one of Good Housekeeping's cookery school courses, or drinking wine at her house in France.

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