Blue Chocolate Chip Cookies | Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Percy's mythical blue chocolate chip cookies, baked NYC style with milk chocolate chips, celebrating Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
Ingredients
Blue chocolate chip cookies:
- 125 g [4.5 oz] unsalted butter room temperature
- 75 g [¼ cup + 2 tbsp] caster sugar
- 70 g [¼ cup + 2 tbsp] light brown sugar
- 30 g [2 tbsp + 1 tsp] dark brown sugar
- 1 medium or large egg
- 300 g [1¾ cups + 2 tbsp] plain [all-purpose] flour
- 1 tbsp cornflour optional
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda [baking soda]
- ½ tsp salt
- 200 g [7 oz] chocolate chips of your choice
- 1-2 tsp strong blue food colouring or 2 tsp blue spirulina
- Edible silver glitter optional
Instructions
Blue chocolate chip cookies:
- Line two baking trays with greaseproof paper/baking parchment and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy.
- Add the egg and blue food colouring or blue spirulina and beat in. You can add more blue food colouring later if needed.
- Sieve in the flour, then spoon in the baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, salt and the cornflour (if using) and mix in until a dough is achieved.
- Add more blue food colouring here if needed and gently knead it in. Avoid overworking the dough as much as possible.
- Press in the chocolate chips.
- Shape your dough into up to 12 equal balls. Sit them on the trays with 6 on each tray, leaving a generous amount of space in between each ball.
- Chill the cookie dough pieces in the fridge for at least 1 hour or in the freezer for 30 minutes. Do not skip this step as you could end up with flat cookies!
- After about 50 minutes of chilling, preheat the oven to 200°C [390°F] or 180°C fan.
- When ready, bake the cookies for around 8 to 10 minutes, until slightly dry looking on the top. They shouldn’t need pressing down before baking as they may spread too much, but this personal preference. Do not bake for longer than the allotted time: they will continue baking on the trays after.
- After the allotted time, leave the cookies to continue baking on their trays for at least 30 minutes.
- Spray with the glitter if using. Then your blue chocolate chip cookies are ready to eat!
Notes
These mythical blue chocolate chip cookies are best eaten on the day, but will last for a further 4 or so days. If desired, you can warm them through in the microwave for 20 seconds or in the oven for 2 minutes.
Raw dough will last no more than 48 hours in the fridge but can be frozen (wrapped) and then baked from frozen at the same temperature for a couple of minutes longer. Just be sure they are baked all the way through. Enjoy!