Description
Easy, one bowl cookies with browned butter and cocoa nibs.
Equipment: Saucepan, strong spoon, cookie sheets, silpat, small ice cream scoop
Ingredients
- 200 g butter
- 350 g rapadura (or panela, or dark brown sugar chopped into small pieces.)
- 2 eggs
- 300 g all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon of salt
- 1/2 cup to 1 cup of cacao nibs (depends on your love for cocoa nibs)
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350F (176c)
- Place the butter in a medium to large saucepan and turn heat to low. You will use this pot to mix everything else in, make sure it is big enough.
- Melt all of the butter until it becomes slightly brown and begins to smell nutty – there will be solid pieces on the bottom. Turn off the heat, let cool for 10 minutes.
- In this same pot that is now cooled, add the 2 eggs and sugar and mix with a wooden or heavy spoon.
- In here toss everything else except the nibs, which means: flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Mix until the white flour doesn’t look white anymore.
- Add the nibs and use all your strength to mix until the nibs are everywhere in the dough.
- Use a small ice scream scoop or use a normal spoon to scoop out round balls the size of a golf ball. You can also freeze this dough for later use.
- Place on a cookie sheet lined with parchment or a silpat, they will grow twice their size so leave some room!
- Leave in the oven 10 to 15 minutes, look for light browning around the edges of the cookie and they are done. Make sure not to over bake because these go from baked to burnt very quickly. You can bake longer if you want to create a crunchier cookie but make sure to lower the temperature or turn off the oven and let them sit there a few more minutes. But avoid allowing them to get browned.
Notes
Cocoa nibs should be roasted, not raw. If you are buying cocoa nibs and they do not say Raw, then they are roasted. If you have some raw nibs that you want to use, just roast them until they are hot; 1 cup of nibs can be placed in a 300F oven for 10 minutes. As soon as you smell chocolate odors, they are ready. Yes, you are baking the cookies but once the nibs are in the cookies, they are enveloped in fat and flour and will not get a chance to roast.
The raw cocoa nibs will have a different flavor that I do not like in my chocolate. Roasting is a huge factor in developing cocoa flavors and aromas in cocoa nibs – the best chocolates in the world are made with roasted nibs.
- Category: cookies
- Method: mix
- Cuisine: dessert
Keywords: cookies, nibs, easy, brown sugar