Candy cane chocolate cookies

I've started baking to a greater extent than or less christmas cookies.. shh , don't enjoin anyone!
It's similar this every year. Christmas is agency likewise curt to gibe inwards all the things I desire to produce together with bake hence I convey to get-go early. I'm pretty certain that's a proficient excuse.
I haven't done whatsoever decorations withal , merely to a greater extent than or less baking , drinking mulled vino together with chai latte together with listening to proficient one-time Frank Sinatra. Next weekend we'll pose upwards the decorations together with the weekend subsequently that , the christmas tree! My favorite!





We unremarkably convey huge christmas trees (have you lot seen Christmas opor-garai amongst Chevy Chase? It's almost similar that). Every twelvemonth nosotros nation "next twelvemonth nosotros have to instruct a smaller one" , but somehow nosotros e'er halt upwards amongst an fifty-fifty bigger than the previous one. You don't hear me complaining (until subsequently christmas that is).
Anyway , I'm non certain why candy canes are associated amongst christmas , but I tin flame enjoin you lot 1 thing. These cookies are good. Like really good.










Candy cane chocolate cookies
Makes 8-10 large cookies

Printable recipe

Feel complimentary to double this recipe if you lot desire to a greater extent than cookies equally this is a quite pocket-size batch!

175 g nighttime chocolate (70%) , chopped
25 g salted butter
xxx g all role flour
1/2 ml (or close 1/10 of a teaspoon) baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 large egg
75 g granulated sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract 

100 g milk chocolate , melted
Crushed candy cane

Melt 100 grams of the chocolate together with the butter inwards a double boiler. Let cool.Mix flour , baking pulverization together with tabular array salt inwards a bowl. Set aside.
Beat egg , carbohydrate together with vanilla until pale together with fluffy , close 8-10 minutes.
Stir inwards chocolate mixture together with 75 g chopped chocolate. Add flour mixture together with stir until completely smooth.
Let mixture residual inwards room temperature for fifteen minutes or so. Meanwhile , rut the oven to 175°C (350F). Spoon close two tbsp of dough for each cookie onto a canvass amongst baking newspaper leaving to a greater extent than or less infinite betwixt cookies. Bake for 8-10 minutes. Let cool.
Dip cookies inwards milk chocolate together with and hence inwards crushed candy cane (or sprinkle candy cane on top). Put cookies on a wire rack to harden.