{"id":245,"date":"2020-07-05T19:12:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T18:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/?p=245"},"modified":"2020-07-05T19:14:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T18:14:14","slug":"choco-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2020\/07\/05\/choco-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Choco Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is something I have never tried to bake. I consider it a very American\/British thing.  I have tried good ones in UK in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benscookies.com\/our-cookies\/\">Ben&#8217;s Cookies<\/a> and it seems there is a great version in USA in <a href=\"https:\/\/levainbakery.com\/products\/chocolate-chip-walnut-cookies\">Levain<\/a> Bakery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So searching for recipes, I chose this one:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SUB) &quot;\ub274\uc695\uc744 \uc6b8\ub9b0 \ub9c8\uc57d\ucfe0\ud0a4&quot; \ub808\uc2dc\ud53c | \ub974\ubc45\ucfe0\ud0a4  levain cookie recipe - \ub370\ub77c\uc138\ub974\ub098\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F4-3Ar0EDsM?start=166&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ingredients (adapted to what I have):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Plain flour 200g\nSelf-Raising flour 100g\n100% cocoa powder 50g\n1 teaspoon of corn flour\n1 teaspoon of baking soda\n1 teaspoon of baking powder\nHalf a teaspoon of salt\n\nCold butter 200g\nBrown sugar 130g\nWhite sugar 70g\n\n2 free range eggs - beaten room temperature \n\n300g 80% dark chocolate in pieces\n20g of mixed nuts crashed<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Process:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sieve flour, cocoa powder, corn, baking soda\/powder, and salt. <\/li><li>Cut the cold butter into a small cubes.<\/li><li>Chop chocolate tablets into small pieces. <\/li><li>In a big enough bowl, cream the butter and sugar. I do it by hand.<\/li><li>Add eggs in 3 separate steps, and keep mixing.<\/li><li>Add the dry ingredients (flour mix), and mix lightly until you still see unmixed flour.<\/li><li>Add chocolate pieces and nuts. Mix lightly. <\/li><li>Cover and move the dough to the fridge for 2-3 hours.<\/li><li>Weight 170gr of dough per cookie. Make a ball and place it on a tray.<\/li><li>Move the try to the fridge for 30 minutes in the fridge. <\/li><li>Pre heat the oven to 200\u2103 and bake it at 180\u2103 for 10 minutes.<\/li><li>Let them rest for 15 minutes or more until the surface is a bit hard. If not they will break down in your hand.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Veredict<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously, they dont look like the ones in the video or the other sites but they were good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Difficult to believe, but they dont taste super sweet. I used 100% cocoa powder and 85% dark chocolate. Still one cookie has the amount of chocolate and sugar that I take in one week \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"706\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-from-2020-07-05-19-05-23-1024x706.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-from-2020-07-05-19-05-23-1024x706.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-from-2020-07-05-19-05-23-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-from-2020-07-05-19-05-23-768x530.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-from-2020-07-05-19-05-23-1536x1059.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-from-2020-07-05-19-05-23-1200x827.png 1200w, https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-from-2020-07-05-19-05-23.png 1739w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reminder<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can put the rest of cookies in the freezer! And enjoy fresh baked cookies any day!!! (I had three left over)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mistakes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>They where in the oven for 13 minutes or more&#8230;  so they flat out more than I wished.<\/li><li>They are very big cookies so make sure they have plenty of room. I only put four and one moved when I put the tray in the oven.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Another time, I will try the walnut one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is something I have never tried to bake. I consider it a very American\/British thing. I have tried good ones in UK in Ben&#8217;s Cookies and it seems there is a great version in USA in Levain Bakery. So searching for recipes, I chose this one: Ingredients (adapted to what I have): Plain flour &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2020\/07\/05\/choco-cookies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Choco Cookies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}