Dark Chocolate Cookies
A great chocolate cookie which can make impressive homemade presents for any special occasion. They are a bit fussy so be patient and refrigerate between steps.
Ingredients
To make cookie
- ¾ cup flour
- ⅓ cup cocoa
- 75 grams butter at room temperature
- ¾ cup icing sugar
- 1 large egg
- ½ tsp vanilla
To make filling
- 100 grams dark 70% chocolate
- ½ cup cream
- ½ cup icing sugar
- ¼ tsp salt
Instructions
To make cookie
- Pre heat oven to 160C
- Whisk flour, cocoa and salt in a bowl. Set aside
- Cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.
- Beat in egg and vanilla
- Gradually add flour to combine
- Shape dough into 2 discs and freeze until firm.
- Roll out until ⅛ inch thick on parchment paper. Instead of using flour to dust rolling pin use cocoa powder. Then use 1½ inch cookie cutter to cut out rounds. Place on a parchment paper lined tray. Freeze to make firm. Cook for about 8 minutes until just cooked.
To make filling
- Heat cream, sugar and salt and pour over chocolate. Melt chocolate then stir to make smooth. Let stand to firm and get desired consistency.
To assemble
- Place filling on 1 cookie and sandwich it with second cookie. Experiment with fillings- one of these cookie has caramel filling then dipped in white chocolate, the second one has chocolate filling with a cherry jam center.
Notes
This is a great recipe but fussy- the dough is very soft and really needs to be refrigerated between handling. Be patient. The ideal texture is thin and crispy so that it can be made into sandwich cookies.