Description
These irresistible salted chocolate bliss cookies combine rich dark chocolate with delicate sea salt for a luxurious dessert experience. Cookie lovers will savor the perfect balance of sweet and salty in each delightful bite.
Ingredients
Scale
- 120 g (4.2 oz or ½ cup) dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 120 g (1 stick) unsalted butter
- 150 g (1 ¼ cups) all-purpose flour
- 90 g (½ cup) caster sugar
- 60 g (⅓ cup) muscovado sugar (or light brown sugar)
- 35 g (about ⅔ of one medium egg)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 g (½ tsp) fleur de sel (or fine sea salt)
- 1 g (¼ tsp) baking powder
Instructions
- Prepare Base: Cream room-temperature butter with muscovado, caster sugar, and fleur de sel in a spacious mixing bowl until achieving a silky, uniform consistency.
- Combine Wet Ingredients: Whisk egg and vanilla extract into the butter mixture, blending thoroughly until smooth and homogeneous.
- Integrate Dry Components: Sift flour and baking powder, gently folding into wet ingredients while minimizing overmixing to preserve a tender crumb. Carefully incorporate chopped dark chocolate throughout the dough, ensuring even distribution.
- Chill and Rest: Refrigerate the dough for 30 minutes to firm up, enhance flavor development, and improve structural integrity.
- Preheat and Prepare: Set oven to 180°C (350°F) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper for optimal cookie release.
- Shape and Bake: Form generously sized dough orbs, placing them strategically on the prepared sheet with adequate spacing. Bake for 13 minutes, aiming for golden edges and a slightly underdone center that promises a luxuriously soft texture.
- Finishing Touch: Remove from oven and allow cookies to rest on the baking sheet for 15 minutes. Optionally press additional chocolate chunks into the warm surface, creating molten chocolate pools. Transfer to a wire rack for complete cooling and flavor settlement.
Notes
- Butter Temperature Matters: Room temperature butter blends smoother, creating a silkier cookie dough with better sugar integration and more consistent texture.
- Avoid Overmixing: Gentle folding prevents tough cookies, maintaining a delicate, tender crumb that melts in your mouth.
- Chill for Flavor Perfection: Refrigerating dough for 30 minutes concentrates flavors, prevents excessive spreading, and creates a more complex, developed taste profile.
- Chocolate Chunk Technique: Adding extra chocolate chunks to warm cookies creates stunning molten pools and intensifies the chocolate experience, elevating the visual and taste appeal.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 13 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 13
- Calories: 180
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 50mg
- Fat: 9g
- Saturated Fat: 5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 22g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 15mg