Author Notes:
These chocolate cookies look like tiny loaves of bread once they come out of the oven but taste heavenly. The recipe is for a small batch because I prefer to make lots of different small batches of cookies. You can easily multiply the ingredients to make bigger batches.
Makes: 24
Ingredients
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1
egg
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1/2
cup sugar
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1/4
stick (30g) soft butter
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1/2
teaspoon vanilla
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1/4
cup high quality cocoa powder
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1/2
cup all purpose flour
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1/2
teaspoon baking powder
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1
pinch salt
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1/2
cup confectioners' sugar
In This Recipe
Directions
- Cream the butter with the sugar with a hand or stand mixer.
- Beat in the egg.
- Add the vanilla.
- Mix the cocoa powder in by hand to prevent a cocoa dusted kitchen. Once the ingredients are mixed, continue with the mixer.
- In a second bowl mix the flour, baking powder and salt.
- Add the flour to the cocoa mixture and mix well until you have an even, very sticky dough.
- Cover bowl with cling wrap and store in the fridge for at least 1 hour.
- Line a baking tray with parchment paper.
- Take the dough of out the fridge and shape small (0.5 inch) balls between your hands.
- Cool the cookies again in the fridge, on the baking tray, for about 15 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350F/180C.
- Roll each cookie in confectioners' sugar until fully covered.
- Bake for about 13 minutes.
- Let them cool on the tray for a few minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack.
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