Chocolate Cookies
Chocolate cookies are a recipe with fresh ingredients from the pastry category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp Flour
- 200 g ground almonds
- 2 tsp cocoa powder
- 4 egg whites
- 250 g very fine sugar
- 150 g dark chocolate (70% cacao)
- 80 g whipping cream
- 20 g butter
- cocoa powder (for dusting)
- 200 g powdered sugar
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- food coloring (optional)
- colored sprinkles
- sugar pearls
Instructions
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1.
Preheat the oven to 130°C.
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In a bowl mix flour, almonds and cocoa. Beat egg whites into stiff peaks. Gradually add sugar while beating until a glossy, firm mixture forms. Gently fold in the almond-flour blend. Fill a freezer bag or piping bag with a large round tip and pipe dough onto parchment-lined tray in 2.5 cm rounds. Bake for about 40 minutes, leaving the oven door slightly ajar. Remove from oven, take off tray and let cool.
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For the filling, chop chocolate into small pieces and melt over a double boiler. Whip cream to stiff peaks; fold butter pieces with a whisk into melted chocolate until smooth. Once cooled, fold in whipped cream. Spread filling on half of the cookies, then top with remaining cookies to form sandwiches. Let set.
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To decorate, melt chopped chocolate over a double boiler, let cool slightly, then glaze cookies. Allow to firm. Mix powdered sugar with lemon juice into a thick glaze; color with food coloring if desired and pipe fun faces with a small tip. Finish by adding sprinkles or sugar pearls as preferred.
