This is the best cookie recipe for chocolate lovers and any of us who have a "I want to eat home made cookies now but lazy to prep" moment or the "oh no! I'm having impromptu guests" moment.
This recipe will be the perfect recipe to "cure" those moments because this recipe is easy to make and it is freezer friendly! Yes! Once the dough is made, you can freeze it up to 1 month! So during this 1 month, as and when you feel like eating cookies, just slice the dough and pop it into the preheated oven for 12 minutes! Viola! Cookies anytime!
It worked for me as I only needed to prepare the dough once and I split it into a few portions. I tried baking it at 6am in the morning when I wanted fresh cookies for church and I used it when Trinity wanted to do some cookie decoration! Yes. We threw the dough into the toppings we wanted, pictured below are chopped almonds, which we just rolled the dough onto and you got a nutty version of the already perfected cookie. Trinity wanted to have an m&m cookie but guess what, she ate the m&ms!
Anyway, we just used up our last batch of cookie dough today so it's time to make another batch!
Here's the recipe taken from the website with Permission:
http://whatscookingamerica.net/Cookie/KorovaCookie.htm
Korova Cookies - Sables Korova - Chocolate Butter Cookies Recipe
Yields: 36 cookies
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 12 min
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup Dutch-Process Cocoa
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup plus 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
2/3 cup firley-packed light brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon Fleur de Sel or 1/4 teaspoon coarse sea salt
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
5 ounces (150 grams) bittersweet chocolate, chopped into chip-size bits*
* The secret is to use the best quality bittersweet chocolate you can find, preferably a 70 percent cocoa content, but lower percentages are allowed.
1. Sift the flour, cocoa, and baking soda together; set aside.
2. Put the butter in the bowl of a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and beat on medium speed until the butter is soft and creamy. (Alternatively, you can do this and all subsequent steps by hand working with a sturdy rubber spatula.) Add the brown sugar, granulated sugar, salt, and vanilla extract; beat for another 1 to 2 minutes.
3. Reduce the mixer speed to low and add the sifted dry (flour) ingredients. Mix only until the dry ingredients are incorporated (the dough will look crumbly and that's just right). For the best texture, you want to work the dough as little as possible once the flour is added. Toss in the chocolate pieces and mix only to incorporate.
4. Turn the dough out onto a smooth work surface, divide it in half and, working with one half at a time, shape the dough into a log that is 1 inch (4-cm) in diameter. Cookie-dough logs have a way of ending up with hollow centers, so as you're shaping a log, flatten it once or twice and roll it up from one long side to the other, just to make certain you haven't got an air channel. Wrap the logs in plastic wrap and refrigerate them for at least 1 hour.
The dough can be made ahead and either chilled or frozen. Wrapped airtight, the logs can be refrigerated for up to 3 days or frozen for 1 month. In fact, if you've frozen the dough, you needn't defrost it before baking, just slice the logs into cookies and bake the cookies 1 minute longer. Packed airtight, baked cookies will keep at room temperature for up to 3 days; they can be frozen for up to 1 month.
5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. (180 degrees C.) and center a rack in the oven. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
6. Working with a sharp thin-bladed knife, slice rounds that are 1/2-inch (1-cm) thick. (Don't be upset when the cookies break, just squeeze the broken-off bit back onto the cookie.) Place the cookies on the parchment-lined sheets leaving about 1 inch (2.5 cm) of spread space between each cookie.
*At this point, you can roll the sliced cookie dough onto the toppings you would like if you want to alter the recipe like I did as shown with almond chunks!*
7. Bake only one sheet of cookies at a time and bake each sheet for 12 minutes. The cookies will not look done, nor will they be firm, but that's just the way they should be. Transfer the baking sheet to a cooling rack and let the cookies rest, on the baking sheet, until they are only just warm or until they reach room temperature. Repeat with the second sheet of cookies.
Makes about 36 cookies.
This is a fabulous recipe so do give it a try and visit www.whatscookingAmerica.net
Cheers
PoshPearl
