American cookies cookies with chocolate

Fragrant, crumbly, melts in the mouth, for the whole family! American cookie cookies are a famous recipe for delicious shortbread cookies with pieces of chocolate and a pleasant vanilla flavor. It is prepared quite quickly, from simple and affordable ingredients, and the result exceeds all expectations.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 9 % 7 g
Fats 20 % 16 g
Carbohydrates 71 % 57 g
392 kcal
GI: 0 / 0 / 100

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make American cookies cookies with chocolate? Prepare the ingredients. Remove all products from the refrigerator in advance, butter and chicken eggs should be at room temperature. If desired, you can take milk chocolate, cookies will then turn out sweeter, in this case, reduce the amount of sugar. If there is no brown sugar, then you can use only plain white.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Put the softened butter in a bowl. If you did not have time to remove the oil in advance from the refrigerator, you can soften it a little in a water bath, but do not melt it completely. Add white and brown sugar, salt and a pinch of vanilla to the butter. Beat everything with a mixer into a homogeneous fluffy mass, it should slightly increase in volume.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    In a bowl, beat one chicken egg and add one tablespoon of flour, beat again with a mixer.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Then add the second egg, beat with a mixer.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Then pour in the flour and baking powder parts. Knead the dough with a spoon. It should be thick in consistency, but not tight, soft and sticky.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Chop the chocolate with a knife or chop it with a blender, the pieces should be large. Add the chocolate to the dough and mix it.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. And put the bowl with the dough in the refrigerator for cooling at this time.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Cover the baking tray or grill with parchment paper. It is better to bake cookies on a grate so that it is blown from below. Put the dough on paper with a tablespoon, about one full spoon per cookie. Leave a place between the cookies, because during baking it will increase significantly in size. Bake for about 15 minutes (focus on the work of your oven). The cookies should be slightly browned.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Carefully remove the cookies from the grill and put them on a plate, each cookie separately, since it is soft in a warm form. When the cookie cools down, it will harden, then it can be shifted. Serve cookies with tea, coffee or milk. Have a nice tea party!

Be sure to wash the eggs before use, as even the seemingly clean shell may contain harmful bacteria. It is best to use food detergents and a brush.

All the secrets of baking shortbread dough, why it turns out dry, hard or tasteless and how to avoid it, read the article about crumbly and tender shortbread dough .

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 !

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Wheat flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Bitter chocolate - 539   kcal/100g
  • Baking powder - 79   kcal/100g
  • Brown Sugar - 394   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80   kcal/100g

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