9Honey Kitchen Hacks: How to make cookies in the microwave

Occasionally you hit on an fun hack that you just wonder why you haven't tried sooner. That's what today's 9Honey Kitchen Hack is... the microwave cookie hack that will rock your kitchen world, because it means that you are never more than five minutes away from a freshly baked, ooey gooey cookie. You've been warned.

The trick is to simply make sure that you spread your cookies out enough so that they don't become one big lump... unless that's what you want of course.

It's also key to watch your cookies the first time you try this just to get the feel for your microwave - because they can all be a bit different.

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Check out the video above to see how it's done, or read on for a recipe to try and step-by-step instructions.

Ingredients:

• 125g butter
• 1 egg
• ½tsp vanilla
• 1 ½ cups plain flour
• ¼ cup brown sugar
• ¼ cup caster sugar
• ¼ tsp bicarb soda
• pinch of salt
• ½ cup chocolate bits (mix of types), broken or chopped into small pieces

Method:

1. Melt butter and set aside to cool a little. Meanwhile, combine all dry ingredients including chocolate chips.
2. Mix whisked egg and vanilla into the cooled butter and then work the wet ingredients into the dry to make a firm cookie dough.
3. Roll the dough into small balls - about a tablespoon amount works well.
4. Place four balls on a microwave safe tray or plate lined with baking paper - allowing plenty of room between them - and then flatten them slightly.
5. Microwave on high for 2 minutes and then check to make sure the cookies are not burning. Microwave for another 30seconds to finish off. Allow cookies to cool on a wire rack until cool enough to pick up and eat. Serve warm for gooey chocolate pieces.

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Find all our really useful tried-and-tested 9Honey Kitchen hacks here.
And another three ingredient cheat's cookie recipe here and below.