Microwave Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Published Oct 24, 2024 By Elle Ann

Image credit: HidaMari Cooking via YouTube

Cookies are one of the easiest pastries that you can ever make and they only require a few simple ingredients, but it is also delicate and might take some time for others to get the right texture. There are also other ways that you can bake cookies if you don’t have an oven or you simply don’t want to bake everything at once.

With the help of your microwave oven, you can bake these soft chocolate chip cookies by HidaMari Cooking on YouTube. It makes the cookies slightly darker and larger but it makes no difference in the taste, but if you want your cookies to have a slightly crispier surface, you can still bake them in the oven.

Ingredients for Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies:

½ cup of unsalted butter, chopped into small cubes
½ cup of milk chocolate, chopped
1 whole egg
¼ cup of cane sugar
3 pinches of salt
1 cup of rice flour
2 tbsp of ground almonds
2 tbsp of potato starch
¼ cup of milk chocolate, chopped, for filling

How to Make Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies:

Ingredients for Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies — Image credit: HidaMari Cooking via YouTube

Step 1

Add the butter and milk chocolate pieces in a bowl, then place the bowl over another bowl filled with hot water, and stir the butter and chocolate until completely melted.

Step 2

In another bowl, add the egg, light brown sugar, and salt, then whisk them until incorporated, and transfer them to the chocolate mixture.

Step 3

Continue to whisk them until well combined, then add the rice flour, ground almonds, and potato starch, and fold them until fully combined and no flour streak remains.

Step 4

Leave the cookie dough in the bowl, then place it in the freezer, and leave it for about 10 minutes.

Step 5

Divide the cookie dough into 60-gram or 2-ounce portions, then fill them each with chopped milk chocolates evenly, and place them on parchment paper cut into small 4-inch squares.

Step 6

Flatten each cookie until 7cm or 2.75 inches in diameter, then cook it in the microwave oven at 500W for 1 minute or bake it in an oven preheated at 160°C or 320°F for about 10 to 13 minutes. Serve and enjoy!