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CHOCOLATE DRAMA IN COOKIE FORM

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Serves: +/- 25 cookies

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  • Vegetarian
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The explosion of darkness in your mouth, giving way to the chewy sweetness with occasional velvety encounters with chocolate pieces are what give these horrifically easy-to-make cookies their dramatic title .... you will be hooked on the drama after the first bite!

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Ingredients

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  • 300 grams icing sugar
  • 100 grams unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 large eggs (separated )
  • 1 tablespoon best vanilla extract (Mexican is amazing!)
  • drop almond extract (REAL is another flavour experience)
  • 150 grams dark chocolate (60-70% broken into pieces)

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 175ºC.
  2. Put the icing sugar, salt and cocoa in a large bowl and blend together with a whisk.
  3. Add 2 of the separated whites of egg, the Vaniila and Almond extracts.
  4. Mix with a spatula until a smooth thick, fudge-like batter is created (if it's too firm add a 3rd egg white or even a 4th if neccessary).
  5. Cover a large baking tray with non-stick parchment and drop teaspoonfuls of the batter 4cm apart.
  6. Press a piece of dark chocolate into each 'cookie'.
  7. Bake for 13-15 minutes they will rise and fall and have a cracked appearance.
  8. Remove from the oven and slide the parchment off the hot tray onto a rack and allow the cookies to cool on the paper.
  9. When cool, peel the cookies from the parchement and enjoy with absolute abandon; they will be crisp and chewy. Store in an airtight container....... if they last long enough! 

I have messed around with this recipe a lot ... there are no limits to the possibilities flavour wise : I have added orange oil and dried fennel , excluding the almond and vanilla. Used white chocolate pieces at stage 6.... i have even added a couple of shakes of dried chilli flakes and a 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon ..... let go and get into the Drama! 

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