Chocolate chip cookies with craquelure

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare all the necessary ingredients for making chocolate cookies with craquelure.

2. Step 2:

   

   First prepare the egg mixture: to do this, beat the chicken eggs with sugar and salt with a mixer.

3. Step 3:

   

   In a small ladle, we spread the bitter chocolate broken into small pieces and melt it in a steam bath. In another small ladle, melt the butter over low heat, pour it and the egg mixture to the melted chocolate and knead well until a homogeneous mass is obtained.

4. Step 4:

   

   In parts, we begin to introduce flour sifted through a sieve with baking powder, carefully kneading the dough each time. As a result of kneading, the dough should not be thick, soft in consistency, but at the same time it should not spread over the container. The container with the resulting dough is covered with cling film and put in the refrigerator for an hour and a half.

6. Step 5:

   

   After an hour and a half, we take out the container with the dough from the refrigerator, with the help of a tablespoon we take approximately 50-60 grams of chocolate dough and form future cookies in the form of balls.

7. Step 6:

   

   We roll each ball in powdered sugar and transfer it to a baking sheet covered with baking paper. We put a baking sheet with chocolate cookies in a preheated oven to 200oC and bake it for 15 minutes.

8. Step 7:

   

   During the baking process, the cookies will increase in size and crack. Thus, the effect of craquelure is formed on the cookies. To make the texture of decorative cracks more noticeable, the finished cooled cookies can be sprinkled with powdered sugar on top.