Cooking with cocoa at home is quite realistic. To do this, you must strictly follow all the recommendations.
Today we will tell you about how such a dessert can be prepared by baking and without heat treatment.
A simple cookie (chocolate) recipe
Subject to all the requirements described below, you will definitely get a surprisingly crispy, fragrant and very tasty dessert. It should also be noted that it does not require the purchase of special components. Therefore, almost everyone can do it.
So, a homemade cookie recipe requires the use of:
- sifted wheat flour - about 250 g;
- sea salt - 1 pinch;
- cocoa powder - about 100 g;
- baking powder for dough - 1 pinch;
- light or brown sugar - to your taste (a few large spoons);
- chocolate - optional;
- fresh fatty sour cream - 200 g;
- butter - about 50 g.
Step-by-step kneading of chocolate dough
How to cook homemade cookies? Cocoa, butter, sugar and sour cream are its main components. Of these, you need to make a dough.
To begin with, sifted flour (wheat), sea salt and baking powder are spread in a small bowl. Next, they add cocoa and thoroughly all interfere.
Also in a separate bowl combine butter and sugar. The ingredients are intensively triturated with a tablespoon until smooth (so that the sugar is completely dissolved).
Having received a whitened and quite lush mass, it is combined with loose ingredients, after which thick and fat sour cream is added to them.
Having mixed all the components, you should get a fairly thick chocolate dough. To make it more fragrant, you can add a little vanillin to it. Also, some culinary specialists use regular chocolate as a filler. It is crushed with a knife and poured into the base (optional).
How to form?
Cookies with cocoa at home are formed quite simply. To start, the baking sheet is lined with special parchment. Then chocolate dough is laid out in the form of small balls (at a small distance from each other).
Oven baking process
Cookies with cocoa must be baked only in a preheated oven (up to 200 degrees). The filled baking sheet is sent to the cabinet, where it is kept for about 20 minutes (you can slightly less).
In the process of baking, the dessert should settle a little and transform from a spherical mass into a not very flat cookie.
Serve for a family tea party
Homemade cookies with cocoa should be served to the table in a warm or already cooled form. You can eat such a treat for breakfast and lunch with tea.
Cooking Sweet Sausage Dessert
Cocoa cookies do not have to be baked in the oven. Such an unusual delicacy can be made without heat treatment. For this we need:
- very good quality butter - 200 g;
- shortbread cookies (purchased) - about 1 kg (it is better to take "Jubilee");
- hazelnuts and walnuts - about 200-300 g;
- condensed milk - 1 can;
- cocoa - about 30 g.
Component Preparation
How to make such cookies? Condensed milk, cocoa and butter are its main components. It is also required to purchase ready-made store cookies of the Yubileiny type.
So, to knead the base, first of all, boil the condensed milk. For this, a tin can is placed in a pot of boiling water. Cooking such a treat is desirable for about 20 minutes. During this time, it will become a little thicker.
While the condensed milk is boiled, you should start preparing the remaining ingredients. Store cookies are ground using a blender or a rolling pin. At the exit, you should get a very small and uniform crumb.
As for nuts, they are thoroughly washed and dried in the oven or microwave oven. Further, they are not very finely chopped and mixed with pre-prepared cookie crumbs.
Mash the basis for "Sweet Sausage"
After the main components are processed, the condensed milk is combined with soft butter. Beat these ingredients too much. It is enough to mix them with a tablespoon until smooth.
In the finished mass, you need to add cocoa, and then gradually pour a mixture of store cookies and nuts. Products should be mixed very carefully. In this case, it is necessary to ensure that all dry components are saturated with condensed chocolate cream.
How to shape?
Formed "Sweet Sausage" is quite simple. To do this, the resulting chocolate mass from cookies, cocoa, butter and condensed milk is spread on a regular plastic wrap, which is pre-placed on a cutting board.
Having carefully wrapped the base, it is pressed into a very tight bar. If you do not crumple the ingredients, then eventually the cookies will fall apart. Therefore, such a process should be given special attention.
Once the dessert is ready, it is cleaned in the freezer. Sausage cookies should be cooled for no more than 1-1.5 hours.
Serving to the family table
After the chocolate chip cookies with nuts and condensed milk have solidified, turn into the so-called sweet sausage, they are taken out. Carefully removing food wrap from the product, it is laid out on a cutting board and cut into not very thick pieces, which, in turn, are laid out on a flat dish.
Serve such an unusual dessert to the family table should be with tea. If you decide to make this treat for the holiday, we suggest dousing it with light or dark chocolate icing, as well as sprinkling with confectionery crumbs.