Ingredients
For the cookies
- 150 g unsalted butter
- 240 g sugar
- 70 g unsweetened cacao powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 2 eggs cold
- 140 g all purpose flour
Toppings
- 100 g dark chocolate (60 or 70% cacao) in chunks or chocolate chips of your choice
- coarse sea salt to sprinkle on top
Instructions
- Place the butter, sugar, cacao, salt and vanilla essence in the bowl where you're going to beat them later.
- Place the bowl on a bain-marie without touching the surface of the water. Leave it there until everything is melted. Mix it together every couple minutes.
- Remove the bowl from the bain marie and wait 5min for it to cool down a bit.
- Mix using a stand or hand-held mixer and add the eggs one at a time. Mix until fully incorporated.
- Add the flour and mix for 3 min on high speed.
- If the batter looks liquidy, place it in the fridge for an hour.
- Use a cookie scoop (like an ice cream scoop, only smaller) to place the dough on the tray lined with silpat or baking paper. You can also use a generous tablespoon.
- Take to a preheated oven at 180C for 8-10min. When you take them out they'll be really soft and you think they need more time but they're ready!
- Push the chocolate chunks or chips down onto the cookie. They will melt with its heat.
- Sprinkle salt on the cookies.
- Wait for them to cool down for 10min and then remove them from the tray.
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