Almond Chocolate Cookies

Ingredients

• 125 g butter
• 100 g fine sugar
• 0.5 Vanilla bean
• 4 egg yolks
• 60 g ground almonds
• 100 g grated dark chocolate
• 125 g flour
• 75 g cornstarch
• 1 tsp cocoa powder
• 100 g dark couverture

Instructions

1. 1.

   Beat the butter with sugar, the scraped vanilla bean, and eggs until creamy using a hand mixer. Add almonds and grated chocolate, then sift over flour, cocoa, and starch and quickly knead into a smooth dough. Wrap in foil and chill for about 30 minutes.

2. 2.

   Preheat oven to 180 °C. Roll out the dough on a floured surface to 3 mm thickness and cut star shapes. Place on parchment-lined baking sheet and bake for about 10 minutes. Remove and cool on a wire rack. Melt the couverture over a bain‑marié and brush half onto the cooled stars.