• Giant gooey Easter egg cookie

    Nothing says hoppy Easter like this giant Easter egg cookie!

    Giant gooey Easter egg cookie

    Serves: 6
    Total Time: 1 hr

    Ingredients

    • cooking spray/butter, to grease
    • 200g butter, at room temperature
    • 250g sugar
    • 3 large eggs
    • 10ml (2 tsp) vanilla essence
    • 400g cake flour, sifted
    • 5ml (1 tsp) bicarbonate of soda
    • pinch salt
    • 5ml (1 tsp) ground cinnamon
    • 125g speckled eggs
    • 125g candy-coated
    • chocolate buttons (find at woolworths.co.za)
    • 80g milk chocolate, roughly chopped
    • double-thick/thick cream or vanilla ice cream, to serve

    Instructions

    1

    Preheat the oven to 180˚C. Grease a 23cm round, ovenproof dish. Using hand-held electric beater or a free-standing mixer, beat the butter and sugar in a bowl until fluffy. Beat in the eggs and vanilla.

    2

    In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and cinnamon, then add these dry ingredients to the butter-egg mixture and gently fold them in with a spatula until just combined.

    3

    Transfer the cookie mixture to the prepared dish and smooth the top with a spatula. Sprinkle with the speckled eggs, chocolate buttons and chopped milk chocolate, and bake in the preheated oven, 20 – 25 minutes (the centre should still be nice and gooey).

    4

    Serve the giant cookie warm, with dollops of double-thick/thick cream or vanilla ice cream.

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    Recipe and styling by Claire Ferrandi

    Photography by Dylan Swart

    Imka Webb
    Author

    Imka Webb is a freelance digital marketing expert and the digital editor of Food & Home Entertaining magazine.  www.imkawebb.com