Flourless Cocoa Cookies
Photo by Jennifer May
MAKES
about 2 dozen cookies
TAKES
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 15 minutes
Total: 30 minutes
✻ ABOUT THIS RECIPE
This naturally gluten free (not to mention, super easy) cookie has an incredibly huge and rich chocolate flavor, all with only a few pantry staple ingredients. Think: dense like a brownie, chewy like a cookie, with gorgeous melty pockets of dark chocolate throughout. This recipe comes from my first book, The Fearless Baker (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017).
INGREDIENTS
170 g / 3 large cold eggs
340 g / 3 cups confectioners’ sugar
106 g / 1 ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 g / ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon (optional)
1 g / ¼ teaspoon fine sea salt
7 g / 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
140 g / 1 cup bittersweet chocolate chunks or roughly chopped bittersweet chocolate
flaky sea salt, for sprinkling
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METHOD
1. Heat the oven to 350°F / 175°C and line 2 rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. In a large bowl, whisk the eggs until well blended.
3. In another large bowl, sift together confectioners’ sugar, cocoa powder, cinnamon and salt. Whisk into eggs, changing to a spatula when the batter becomes too thick to whisk. Stir in vanilla and chocolate chunks
4. Use a 2 tablespoon / #40 cookie scoop to scoop cookies onto prepared baking sheets, leaving 1 ½ inch / 4 cm between them. Sprinkle with flaky salt.
5. Bake, rotating front to back, and top to bottom, halfway through, until set around the edges, cracked on top and slightly underbaked in the middle, 10 to 13 minutes. Transfer to a rack and let cool completely on the baking sheets.
NOTES
The cookies will keep for up to 2 weeks in an airtight container.
Don’t over-bake the cookies, it will dry them out and make them crisper. Err on the side of under-baking, which will yield a gooier cookie.
Crumble this cookie into homemade vanilla ice cream during the final churning stages for a particularly rich + grown up version of cookies and cream ice cream.
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