Chocolate cookies with cracks

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 2 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make chocolate chip cookies? Prepare your food. Sift the flour and cocoa first; this will get rid of lumps and give the baked goods additional fluffiness and airiness. I used cane sugar, instead of vanilla sugar, vanillin. Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance; it should become soft. Also remove the eggs and warm them in advance. They were not included in the photo because they were basking in warm water.

2. STEP 2

   

   Place butter, sugar and salt in a bowl. Using a spatula or spoon, stir until smooth. You can use a mixer, but I decided to do it by hand with a silicone spatula. Everything worked out great for me.

3. STEP 3

   

   Add cocoa to the butter mixture and stir again. Now it will be more difficult to stir, the mixture is quite dry, but the spatula did the job.

4. STEP 4

   

   Add eggs. And stir again. At first it will seem that they will never mix with the main mass, but gradually the process will begin. I repeat that you can use a mixer.

5. STEP 5

   

   The eggs should be completely mixed into the dough, it will become smooth and homogeneous.

6. STEP 6

   

   Add baking powder to the flour and stir. Start adding flour little by little. I divided the process into three stages. After each serving, stir in the flour thoroughly. The dough is ready. Place it in the freezer for 1 hour. Place it in the freezer, it should harden quickly. The dough will not have time to freeze into the stone, don’t be afraid.

7. STEP 7

   

   After time has passed, remove the dough from the freezer. Using a measuring spoon, scoop out equal amounts of dough and form it into balls the size of a walnut. That's why we needed to chill the dough - frozen dough is easier to roll into balls. Roll the balls in powdered sugar.

8. STEP 8

   

   Line a baking sheet with baking parchment. Place the balls on it, making sure to leave space between them. The cookies will increase in size significantly during baking.

9. STEP 9

   

   Bake cookies for 15 minutes at 180 degrees. Before your eyes, the cookies will spread to the sides and become covered with cracks, which will be clearly visible due to the powdered sugar. A very interesting process! Remove the finished cookies from the oven and be sure to let them cool completely. The cookies are very soft and delicate and may break if removed while hot. Cooled cookies can be easily removed from the paper. Serve the cookies to the table. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

Natalia M

24.12.2023

5

I have already baked cookies with cracks, but using a slightly different recipe. I wanted to repeat it) This recipe turned out great. I kept the dough in the freezer for exactly an hour, but I doubted that it would not harden into stone) But everything worked out, the dough just became very hard and rolled into balls wonderfully. By the way, I also kneaded everything with one fork, a very convenient way. I rolled small balls and it turned out to be a whole bag of cookies! The cookies are light and porous. The inside is soft and the outside is crispy with powdered sugar. The taste and smell is mega chocolate! Very tasty elegant cookies. My daughter said that it tastes like chocolate gingerbread) Thanks for the recipe!

marina.krajeva

24.12.2023

4.7

They are beautiful! I did everything exactly according to the proportions and it worked the first time. Thanks for the recipe!

Marina Butovicheva

24.12.2023

5

Thank you for indicating the number of cookies I love chocolate cakes, I’ll try to make them

Ellona

24.12.2023

4.7

Thank you! Everything worked out! But I still added a little mixer to the work to knead faster! It turned out to be 15 pieces, 32-35 grams each!

Anea Anea

24.12.2023

4.5

I'm about to make this, can I add raisins?

Anastasia

24.12.2023

4.5

I made everything exactly according to the recipe, but it melted in the oven😭. I don't understand what I did wrong

Marinika Nikolaeva

24.12.2023

5

My rating for the recipe is 5 points. The cookies are delicious, with a rich chocolate flavor. The cracks are very interesting. I prepared everything according to the recipe. Weighed the products on scales. I mixed it in a mixer and helped with a silicone spatula, otherwise it didn’t mix well. Thanks to the author!