These are must make cookies for your incoming Christmas holidays, the kids adore them and so as grown ups. Crispy on the outside with a soft middle rich in chocolate and roasted hazelnuts and all this sprinkled with ‘snow’. The only problem is - they are highly addictive!
Ingredients:
- 2 eggs
- 50 g brown sugar (1.7 ounces, 1/6 cup)
- 200 g all-purpose flour (7 ounces, 1 1/2 cups)
- 250 g melted dark chocolate (8.8 ounces, 1 1/3 cups)
- 1 shot of espresso or instant coffee – one shot – 70ml / 2.5 fl oz
- 80 g melted butter (2.8 ounces, 1/3 cups)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 100 g roasted crushed hazelnuts
For the "snow"
- 100 g sugar mixed with a little cinnamon and vanilla (3.5 ounces, 1/3 cups)
- 100g icing sugar (3.5 ounces, 3/4 cups)
Preparation:
- Mix eggs and sugar with a hand mixer.
- Add vanilla extract.
- Melt butter with the chocolate at low heat and add the mixture to the eggs. Mix.
- Add the prepared coffee. If you don't like the coffee taste, replace it with cappuccino or instant chocolate. Mix.
- Add the flour mixed with the baking powder, shortly mix and add the crushed roasted hazelnuts.
- Cover with nylon foil and refrigerate for 3 hours.
- Put the icing sugar and the sugar in 2 plates. Preheat the oven to 200C /400F and line two baking trays with parchment paper.
- Take one teaspoon of the dough, make a small ball with your hands and roll the ball first in the sugar and then in the icing sugar.
- Place prepared snow balls on the baking tray and repeat with the rest of the dough. Leave about 3 cm space between balls since they grow while baking.
- Place 1 baking tray in the oven and reduce temperature to 180 C. Bake for 12-15 minutes, depending on whether you prefer them softer or crispier.
- After baking, put the other tray to bake. Leave them to cool down for a while, then serve and enjoy the wonderful taste.
- Enjoy!
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