Soft chocolate coffee cookies

Vessy — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:23:24 +0000

These are one of the best soft chocolate cookies I have ever made and tasted!!!
When preparing cookies at home, you may learn a few tricks which will make your life easier, but overall this is not a tough job at all. Don’t worry if you don’t get the perfect cookies the first time you prepare them, they will still be delicious most of all because they will be home made, made with love.
But nevertheless, here are a few tips you can use in your cookie cooking.
The main and most important ingredient in the cookie batter is the butter. In order for the cookies to keep their shape, stay thick and soft in the centre, you will need to keep the butter tough and chilled at all times. Woking with cold butter is definitely not an easy job, so I would leave the butter at room temperature to soften, prepare the cookie dough, spread it over the baking sheet and after, I would place the baking sheet in the fridge for 10-15 minutes so the butter firms up again. Then I would continue with the baking itself.
Another important moment here would be the temperature of the oven – when you open the door of your oven, the temperature immediately lowers, which is not good for your cookies.
What I do is heat the over 10-20C above the temperature which is need for baking, then after I place the cookies in the oven I lower it back to the desired temperature.
I hope this will help you get the perfect cookies.
Happy baking!

Ingredients:
130 grams soft butter
340 grams granulated brown sugar
2 tea spoons pure vanilla extract
2 eggs
120 ml. strong espresso coffee
350 grams all purpose flour (more if it’s too sticky)
70 grams cocoa powder
1 tea spoon baking soda
A pinch of salt
250 grams dark chocolate mini chips

Preheat your oven to 350 F.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a large bowl mix all dry ingredients except for sugar: flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt and mini chocolate chips.
In another bowl beat the butter and sugar – make sure the butter is soft, but not melted, otherwise the cookies may loose their shape during the baking.
Add the eggs and vanilla extract to the butter-sugar mixture and mix with a rubber spatula (do not over mix).
Add the butter mixture to the flour and mix with rubber spatula. Gradually add the coffee until the batter is sticky, but not too sticky so it could still be easy to work with using your hands.
Using an ice cream scoop, scoop the batter on the baking sheet as you leave enough space between each cookie, because they will almost double their size while baking.
Now, the trick when baking soft cookies, which include butter as a main ingredient is to have the batter very well chilled before baking. This way the cookies will not lose their shape when you put them in the oven.
I would suggest to place the baking sheet with the spooned cookies in the fridge for about 15 minutes before baking, so the butter firms up. This way the chance of cookies loosing their shape while baking will be definitely less.
* Add more or less coffee and flour depending on how sticky your batter is.
Bake for 9 minutes then let the cookies cool off on a wire rack.
Makes 40 medium size cookies.

Crispy chocolate chip cookies

Vessy — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 18:38:58 +0000

I prepared these for another of our cooking Sundays! Everyone brings something homemade and delicious and we eat and talk and play games, or in this case Monopoly, which I lost early in the game. As I just have gotten up, I didn’t feel like improvising or cooking something complicated, so I mixed this batter for 10 minutes, and baked three batches of these cookies for another 30 minutes.

This recipe is super easy and the result is amazing – if you like crunchy crispy cookies, then you will love these. Crunchy on the outside with a slightly softer center.

Ingredients:
500 grams (18 oz) all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
150 grams butter, melted
300 grams white sugar
A pinch of salt
2 large eggs
200 grams milk chocolate chips (or other if you prefer)
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

In a large bowl sift the flour, baking powder and salt. Add the chocolate chips. Set aside.

In another bowl mix the sugar with the butter, add the eggs and vanilla extract.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix well with a rubber spatula at first, then use your hands, since the batter will become tougher for the spatula.

Preheat your oven to 180 C (350 F).

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Using an ice-cream scoop or a spoon form equal by size small balls and line them on the baking sheet.

Make sure to leave enough space between each cookie, because they will expand a bit from the heat.

Bake 10-12 minutes.

Cook on a wire rack.

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Soft chocolate coffee cookies

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