Paul Hollywood tip for 'gooey and delicious' chocolate chip cookies

There's nothing more exciting than seeing chocolate oozing from the middle of a warm homemade chocolate chip cookie but achieving that isn't always easy.

Thankfully, baker and The Great British Bake Off judge, Paul Hollywood has shared his secret to mastering that chocolate gooeyness and its not as difficult as it seems.

All it takes is adding an extra bit of chocolate to the cookie just before it bakes.

To pull off that delicious chocolatey centre, Paul Hollywood advises making a small indent in each cookie while they're on the tray, adding in a small piece of chocolate and then closing it up again.

He revealed his special trick on Wired's YouTube channel where has answered a number of baking questions.

In response to the one person who said: "My cookies are never gooey. They always go flat and hard and spread way too much on the tray. What's the secret?"

The star baker said: "The mix is probably far, far too wet if it floating that much you probably need more flour in there and a good little secret is when you're making cookies make a small little indent when it's on the tray and pop a little bit of chocolate in the middle and then just seal it up.

"But with that extra bit of chocolate on the inside when you break it open, the gooeyness of the chocolate will just fall out, and it's delicious."

And it seems like not only did Paul's cookie hack impress viewers but his overall knowledge and advice provided throughout the video to solve some of the most common baking horrors worked at a treat.

One person commented: "Bakers and cooks always impress me. They always have to be part scientist, knowing how ingredients react to each other, and half artist, knowing what looks and tastes good."

A number of viewers thanked the baker for his tips and branding them as "interesting" and "useful" as well as praising his method of explanation, rightfully so.

Now with this simple cookie hack, you'll no longer have to deal with failed attempts of a delicious gooey and chocolatey cookie because now you know the key way to achieve it.