Cookies with chocolate drops are gaining more and more popularity. Both adults and children love it. And the secret here is in simple cooking and incredible taste. Cookies with chocolate are tender, crumbly and light, which can not leave indifferent any sweet tooth.
Classic Chocolate Drops Cookies
Essential Ingredients:
- 150 g of chocolate drops;
- 400 g of high quality flour;
- salt (to taste);
- 130 g coconut oil;
- 2 teaspoons of soda;
- 2 teaspoons cane sugar, vanilla;
- 250 g of granulated sugar;
- one egg.
Cooking process:
- In the necessary container, mix sugar, salt and vanilla.
- Add butter and flour to the mixture, mix with a whisk.
- Then pour the egg into the mixture and knead the dough with your hands.
- Gently add chocolate pieces to the finished dough and stir with a silicone spatula.
- Roll small balls three centimeters in diameter from the dough.
- Cover the pan with parchment.
- Put the balls on a baking sheet in a free order, but not closely together. You can pin them down a bit.
- Bake cookies for 15-20 minutes.
Christmas cookies with nuts
Ingredients (for 15 pieces):
- 400 g of chocolate drops or pieces;
- 450 g of high quality flour;
- 150 g of cane sugar finely ground;
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder;
- 100 g melted butter or coconut oil;
- 50 g of baby applesauce;
- salt (to taste);
- 1-2 chicken eggs;
- 250 g medium walnuts.
Cooking Instructions:
- Mix sifted flour with baking soda or baking powder.
- Beat in applesauce with a blender or whisk apple puree, sugar, salt, butter. After adding eggs to the mixture, without ceasing to beat.
- Then add flour to the bowl and mix until smooth.
- Add chocolate drops and walnuts to the dough, mix gently.
- Using balls for ice cream to form balls and lay them on a baking sheet in a free order.
- Bake in a preheated oven for 16 minutes.
- Cookies will be prepared when it darkens along the edging, but remains soft in the center.
Chocolate Drops Analogs
If for some reason it is not possible to find confectionery drops in stores, you can use chocolate pieces instead or prepare such drops yourself. Confectionery drops can be used not only in the preparation of cookies, but also in various desserts, home baking.
If there is no time for the store and the preparation of drops, a simple bar of chocolate can be crushed in a blender or by hand, the size of the pieces is determined independently. Great taste is obtained with a combination of milk and dark chocolate or white and milk chocolate.
Chocolate drops at home
How to make them yourself? The recipe for chocolate drops is quite simple and does not require cooking experience.
Grocery list:
- 120 g of milk chocolate;
- 2 tablespoons of glucose syrup;
- 60 g coconut oil;
- half a teaspoon of vanilla;
- pastry sleeve;
- parchment or baking paper.
Cooking process:
- Coconut oil should be heated in a saucepan.
- Before boiling oil, it should be removed from the heat and cool.
- Melt the chocolate and cool to room temperature.
- Pour oil into a convenient bottle and add cooled chocolate, vanilla and syrup to it.
- Mix all the ingredients with a blender to a uniform consistency and refrigerate for 20 minutes.
- The mass should be transferred to a pastry bag and squeeze drops onto parchment. This can be done in any order and with a close arrangement of drops.
- After the filled parchment should be moved to a tray and put in the freezer for half an hour.
Chocolate drops are ready! The only thing that should be observed in storage is not to leave drops at room temperature. They should be taken out of the freezer just before use, otherwise they will melt.