Description
Homemade salted chocolate cookies blend rich cocoa with sea salt crystals for a sophisticated dessert experience. Chocolate lovers will relish this simple recipe that balances sweet and salty notes perfectly.
Ingredients
Scale
- 150 g (5.3 oz) all-purpose flour
- 120 g (4.2 oz) dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 120 g (4.2 oz) unsalted butter
- 90 g (3.2 oz) caster sugar
- 60 g (2.1 oz) muscovado sugar (or light brown sugar)
- 35 g (1.2 oz) egg (about ⅔ of one medium egg)
- 3 g (0.1 oz) fleur de sel
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 g (0.04 oz) baking powder
Instructions
- Butter Preparation: Soften butter to a pliable state without melting, then combine with muscovado and caster sugars and fleur de sel in a mixing bowl, creaming until smooth and homogeneous.
- Liquid Integration: Whisk egg and vanilla extract into the sugar-butter mixture, stirring precisely until completely blended and uniform.
- Dry Ingredient Incorporation: Sift flour and baking powder together, then gently fold into the wet ingredients with minimal stirring to maintain the cookie’s delicate structure. Mix in dark chocolate fragments until evenly distributed.
- Dough Chilling: Cover and refrigerate the slightly tacky dough for 30 minutes to enhance flavor development and improve handling.
- Baking Preparation: Preheat oven to 180°C and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Form uniform dough balls, spacing them appropriately on the prepared sheet.
- Baking Process: Bake for 13 minutes, observing for subtle surface cracking and golden-bronze edges with a tender center. Cookies should appear set but not completely firm.
- Cooling and Finishing: Allow cookies to rest on the baking sheet for 15 minutes to stabilize structure, then transfer to a cooling rack. Optionally, garnish with additional chocolate fragments while still warm for enhanced visual and flavor appeal.
Notes
- Butter Softening Strategy: Warm butter gently to soft consistency without melting, crucial for achieving perfect cookie texture and even mixing.
- Sugar Creaming Technique: Blend muscovado and caster sugars thoroughly until smooth, creating a foundational base that guarantees rich, complex flavor profile.
- Dough Resting Importance: Refrigerate dough for minimum 30 minutes to develop deeper flavors, improve structural integrity, and enhance chocolate distribution.
- Baking Precision: Watch cookies closely during 13-minute bake, aiming for golden edges and slightly soft center to ensure ideal chewy-crisp balance.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 13 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 13
- Calories: 210
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 100mg
- Fat: 12g
- Saturated Fat: 7g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 25g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 15mg