Can’t Decide Between Dark and Milk Chocolate? This Cookie Has Both
Every week, we spotlight a different food blogger who’s shaking up the blogosphere with tempting recipes and knockout photography. Below, Lyndsay Sung of Coco Cake Land combines two of her favorite chocolate varieties — dark and milk — into the same cookie. Why should anyone have to choose between them?
Photo: Lyndsay Sung
By Lyndsay Sung of Coco Cake Land
These rascal-ish cookies are very simple to prepare and holiday-ish in flavor — peppermint = holiday, right? They have a rich, fudgy consistency and are best eaten with a tall frosty glass of milk or hot tea. Or, bag these up in some sort of cute packaging and present them as a holiday gift to a loved one or co-worker! Cookies make a delightful homemade present.
I love the contrast of the dark chocolate cookie with the milk chocolate middle, with that fudgy minty-ness. Quit asking people to choose which they like better! Dark? Milk? Why not both, in one cookie!?
Chocomint Cookies With Milk Chocolate Middles
Makes 2 dozen cookies
1 cup of unsalted butter, room temperature
1 ¾ cups of granulated sugar
2 eggs, room temperature
1 teaspoon of pure peppermint extract
1 ¾ cups of all purpose flour
1 ¼ cup Dutch process cocoa powder
¾ teaspoon of salt
2 bars of nice fancy milk chocolate (or Lindt milk chocolate chunks — I used Lindt Piccoli “Extra Au Lait” couverture chocolate)
Preheat oven to 350°F. Cover two baking sheets with parchment paper (if so desired).
Using a stand mixer or handheld beaters, cream the butter and sugar on high speed until light and fluffy, like an angel’s soft, cloudy bed! Add the eggs one at a time until incorporated. Add extract to combine.
In a medium bowl, sift the dry ingredients to combine. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture until combined. Using a small ice cream scoop or your clean bare hands, dole out 1-inch balls onto parchment-paper covered baking sheets, a dozen per sheet.
Break up your chocolate bars into nice little squares. Place a square in the middle of each ball and push down with your finger.
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, depending on how hot your oven gets! Turn the pans once halfway through. Leave to cool on baking sheets for 10 minutes before transferring to cooling racks (or your mouth).
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