American cookies with chocolate pieces

Very fast, very simple, very easy, insanely delicious! American cookies with pieces of chocolate are tender and crumbly. At the same time, it is surprisingly simple and quick to prepare, and the most ordinary products are needed for it. Serve it traditionally with a glass of milk!

Julia

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Eggs

Sugar

Butter (soft)

100

Salt (pinch)

to taste

Vanillin

0.2

Baking powder

Wheat flour

190

Dark chocolate

100

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 9 % 7 g

Fats 30 % 24 g

Carbohydrates 61 % 48 g

431 kcal

GI: 0 / 0 / 100

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 40 min

Step 1:
How to make American cookies with chocolate pieces? Prepare the necessary ingredients. Butter should be soft so that it can be easily ground. Therefore, it must be taken out of the refrigerator in advance, about 2 hours before cooking. Chocolate should be of good quality, but the bitter or classic version - choose according to taste.
Step 2:
Chop the chocolate into crumbs with a sharp knife. To make it easier to do, you can pre-place the chocolate in the freezer for 15 minutes. In a solid state, it crumbles better. Choose the degree of grinding as desired, you can make the crumb smaller or larger.
Step 3:
Rub softened butter with sugar. In this case, you can use a regular fork or whisk.
Step 4:
Wash and dry the egg with napkins. Add the egg to the sugar-butter mixture. Beat everything until smooth, so that the egg is evenly distributed throughout the entire volume of the mass.
Step 5:
Pre-mix flour with salt, baking powder and vanilla and sift into the dough. Thanks to the sifting of flour, cookies will rise better during baking. Keep in mind that you may have more or less flour, so focus on the consistency of the dough.
Step 6:
Quickly knead the dough. It turns out homogeneous, elastic, oily. Do not knead the dough for a long time so that the cookies do not turn out tight.
Step 7:
Add chocolate chips to the dough.
Step 8:
Mix quickly again to evenly distribute the chocolate throughout the dough.
Step 9:
Spread the dough on a parchment-covered sheet with a spoon, giving the cookies a round shape. I used a cooking mold with a diameter of 6 cm. Bake the cookies in a preheated 190 degree oven for about 20 minutes. Determine the exact time and temperature of baking according to your oven.
Step 10:
Cookies should not be very browned, except that they are slightly browned from the edges. If you keep cookies in the oven for a long time, it may dry out, so do not wait for a full blush. Remove the finished cookies from the oven, cool and serve. Enjoy your meal!

Perhaps many, like me, will have a question: "Why are cookies called American?"
It turns out that these cookies have entered the history of cooking thanks to an ordinary American housewife Ruth Wakefield. She was making cookies according to a recipe that needed melted chocolate. But Ruth just broke the chocolate into small pieces, which did not melt during baking and retained their shape. So the recipe acquired a new version - "cookies with chocolate chips".
In America, such cookies are considered traditional and quite popular.

Be prepared for the fact that flour may need more or less than indicated in the recipe. Focus not on the amount of flour, but on the desired consistency of the dough. To avoid mistakes, read about flour and its properties!

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !