Simple Chocolate Cookies

Name: Simple Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients: 1 15/16 cups pastry flour; 4 tablespoons cocoa powder; salt; 3/4 cup butter at room temperature; 1 3/4 cups vanilla sugar made by storing vanilla bean husks in a container of sugar; 2 egg yolks; 4 3/4 tablespoons dark chocolate melted and cooled

7 ingredients

6 steps

Ingredients

1 15/16 cups pastry flour
4 tablespoons cocoa powder
salt
3/4 cup butter at room temperature
1 3/4 cups vanilla sugar made by storing vanilla bean husks in a container of sugar
2 egg yolks
4 3/4 tablespoons dark chocolate melted and cooled

Directions

1

Preheat the oven to 175 degrees Celsius.
2

Sift together the flour, cocoa, and a pinch of salt. Set aside.
3

Cream the butter and sugar together until white and fluffy. Add the egg yolks and chocolate, stirring constantly.
4

Divide the dough into three parts. Roll each into a cylinder, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
5

Remove the rolls from the refrigerator and cut into slices approximately 7 millimeters thick.
6

Bake the cookies for 14 to 15 minutes. Cool on cookie racks before serving.