Mocha Cookies

Ingredients

• 125 g dark chocolate
• 40 ml mocha
• 300 g whole wheat flour
• 70 g raw cane sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 egg
• 180 g butter
• 150 g white couverture

Instructions

1. 1.

   Coarsely chop the dark chocolate and melt 50 g over a hot, non-boiling water bath. Stir in the mocha, remove from heat, and let cool. Mix the flour with sugar and salt, sift onto a work surface, create a well in the center, crack the egg into it, and pour in the melted chocolate. Distribute butter flakes around the well and quickly knead by hand into a smooth dough.

2. 2.

   Shape the dough into a ball and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Then roll it out on a floured surface into a 2 cm thick log, cut 1 cm slices, form them into balls, place them spaced apart on parchment-lined baking sheet, and lightly flatten with the back of a fork. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 °C (fan 160 °C; gas: level 2–3) for about 10–12 minutes. Remove, lift the parchment, and cool the cookies on a wire rack.

3. 3.

   Meanwhile, coarsely chop the white couverture and melt it over a hot non-boiling water bath. Pour the slightly cooled liquid into a freezer bag, cut off a small corner, and decorate the cookies with it. Sprinkle with remaining chopped chocolate, let dry, and serve.