Chocolate almond cookies
Cookies made with ground almonds, chocolate chips and a little cocoa.
Last modified on: February 21th 2011
Keywords for this recipe:For 30 Cookies, you will need:
- 1
100 g ground almonds - 2
250 g flour - 3
125 g icing sugar - 4
1 egg - 5
125 g butter - 6
50 g dark chocolate - 7
1 teaspoon powdered cocoa - Total weight: 705 grams
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Resting | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 min. | 1 hour | 20 min. | 1 hour 49 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 5 min.
Tip 100 g ground almonds, 250 g flour, 125 g icing sugar, 1 egg into the bowl of your mixer and add 125 g butter cut into pieces.
Stage 2 - 4 min.
Knead on low speed for 3 or 4 minutes until evenly mixed.
Stage 3 - 10 min.
Crush 50 g dark chocolate into small pieces and add to the mixture with 1 teaspoon powdered cocoa. Knead for a further 2 or 3 minutes.
Stage 4 - 1 hour
Gather the dough together and form into a roll about 4 cm (2") diameter, then wrap in plastic film and refrigerate at least one hour or overnight.
Stage 5 - 7 min.
Preheat oven to 180°C (360°F).
Remove dough from fridge and cut slices 0.5 cm ( ¼") thick.
You will find that as you slice, the roll of dough will deform, so turn it as you go, and if necessary reshape the slices.
Remove dough from fridge and cut slices 0.5 cm ( ¼") thick.
You will find that as you slice, the roll of dough will deform, so turn it as you go, and if necessary reshape the slices.
Stage 6 - 3 min.
Place the slices of dough on a baking sheet.
Stage 7 - 20 min.
Cook for about 20 minutes, then leave to cool on a wire rack.
Remarks
It is important not to overcook these cookies, otherwise they will become dry and less tempting.
You can use commercially prepared chocolate chips rather than breaking up a chocolate bar.
You can use commercially prepared chocolate chips rather than breaking up a chocolate bar.
Keeping
Several days in a closed metal box.
Source
Home made.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 3,302 Kcal or 13,825 Kj | 51 gr | 361 gr | 184 gr |
| 165 % | 19 % | 34 % | 28 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 468 Kcal or 1,959 Kj | 7 gr | 51 gr | 26 gr |
| 23 % | 3 % | 5 % | 4 % |
| Per Cookies | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 110 Kcal or 461 Kj | 2 gr | 12 gr | 6 gr |
| 6 % | 1 % | 1 % | 1 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 30 Cookies : 4.08 €
- Per Cookies : 0.14 €
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Provençal colombier for Pentecost, Sauce Normande (for fish), Spinach and Comté Loaf, Apple and almond cake, Nantes Tourton, ... All |
 | Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Gâteau Breton (Brittany butter cake), Apple custard tart, Soft apple cookies, Smart plum tart, Breton style shellfish and vegetable soup, ... All |
 | Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chocolate sweetcrust pastry, Santiago Cake, Diamond biscuits, Coconut "croute à thé", Succès praliné (praline meringue), ... All |
 | Ground almonds: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Apricot blancmange, Pear, grapefruit and pistachio tart, Croute à thé, Buckwheat almond biscuits, Apple and almond cake, ... All |
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- Oh jh, they look so elegantly delectable. Thank you for sharing...Posted by Louise march 14th 2010 at 21:34 (n° 1)
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