Friday, July 18, 2014

Chocolate Cookies

If someone ask me what is my favorite type of dessert, I will shout "CHOCOLATE". Yes, I'm so in love with chocolate. I eat a LOT of chocolate. Any type of chocolate, from white to dark. And this time I'm trying out a chocolate cookies recipe. Super decent chocolate cookies with a tons of chocolate in one cookie, coated with layer of melted chocolate, and decorated with sprinkles.

Pardon for low quality picture. I don't have any proper camera yet.
I get this recipe from my favorite food blogger, Sweetapolita. Since I'm not using extra dark chocolate, and I'm not a fan of super sweet food, I cut of the amount of sugar by half. For the type of sugar, the original recipe are using light brown. And I do have light brown sugar on hand, but usually I'm not using brown sugar on my cookies, just because i prefer a crunchier cookies. And yes, the cookies supposed to be soft and chewy, but my taste bud are more used to not too soft kind of cookies.

The appearance of the cookies might look different from Sweetapolita's cookies. My cookies have no crack on the top just like her cookies. I guess its because I reduce the amount of sugar. Or it might because I'm not beat the egg and sugar long enough. Because in brownie case, the crunchy skin at the top is obtained by beating the eggs and sugar as long as possible. Well, I'm still not sure what I did wrong here. But actually I don't mind with my cookies that has no crunchy top, the cookies still taste so good tho. Just in case you know why my cookies turn out different, please leave some comments. I would really appreciate your comments.



 I really love how the cute cute love sprinkle brighten up the oh-so-chocolate cookies.Anyway, I bake around 18 minutes but the inside of cookies is still soft, just like brownies. The amount of sweetness just right for my taste bud. And hey guess what?! Now I love soft type of cookies! Gotta try to bake this with brown sugar and bake only for 12-15 minutes. 

Okay, enough with talking. Let's jump to my version of the recipe, so you guys can try this at home.

Ingredients:
Chocolate Cookies:
280gr (1 1/2 cup) chopped chocolate
45gr (3tbsp) butter
100gr (1/2 cup) light brown sugar or sugar
2 eggs
200gr all purposed flour
15gr (2tbsp) cocoa powder
1/2tsp baking powder


Glaze: 
140gr chocolate


Decoration:
Any type of sprinkles

Instructions:
Cookies:
  • Preheat your oven to 160°C
  • Sift flour, cocoa powder and baking powder, set aside.
  • Melt 225gr of the chopped chocolate and butter over double boiler.
  • Beat sugar and eggs until incorporated, add the melted chocolate, stir well.
  • Add the dry ingredients. And stir in remaining chocolate pieces.
  • Drop the cookies on to the baking sheet.
  • Bake for 12-18 minutes
Glaze:
  • Melt the chocolate over double boiler.
Decorating:
  • Dipped half of the cookies into the glaze, decorate with the sprinkles.



I really enjoying making this first post of the blog. Hope you enjoy reading it and enjoy it as much as I do. Leave some comments for me. And don't forget to try the recipe!