Chocolate Cookies with Dark Chocolata Chips
Ingredients
Dough
- 175 g butter of room tempeerature
- 80 g milk chocolate
- 100 g brown sugar
- 35 g white sugar
- 20 g cocoa
- 10 g vanilla sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- 240 g all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
Ganache
- 115 g milk chocolate
- 3/4 dl heavy cream
- 20 g honey
- 50 g butter of room temperature
- a pinch of seasalt
Topping
- 50 g dark chocolate
- a pinch of seasalt
Instructions
Making Dough
- Preheat oven into 175 °C.
- Melt the chocolate in a double boiler.
- Beat well butter with both types of sugar, add vanilla sugar too. Add melted chocolate and mix untill incorporated.
- Add yolks and mix well.
- In another bowl mix flour, cocoa and baking powder.
- Move this mixture into the chocolate one and knead a dough.
- Roll the dough into balls the size of large walnuts and place them on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Press lightly on top. The distance between the cookies is about 3 cm.
- Using the outside of a small measuring spoon, make an indentation in the middle of each cookie.
- Bake cookies for 12 minutes.
- Use a measuring spoon again to trace the center of the cookies if they have disappeared after baking.
Making Ganache
- Pour the cream into a heavy-bottomed saucepan, add chopped chocolate, honey, butter and salt. Bring the mixture until smooth and transfer to piping bag.
- Fill the center of each cookie with ganache.
Making Topping
- Mix finely chopped chocolate with salt, transfer the mixture to a piping bag and place in a tall glass. Pour boiling water into a glass and wait until the chocolate is completely dissolved. Cool slightly. Cut the tip of the bag and decorate the cookies.
