This recipe is for making cookies that use less sugar without losing any of the taste.

Ingredients

  • 165 g of flour: 50/50 pastry flour and spelt flour
  • 125 g of soft butter (soft, not melted)
  • 100 g of dark chocolate in bars
  • 40 to 50 g of brown sugar
  • One teaspoon of baking powder
  • One egg
  • One bag of vanilla sugar
  • A pinch of salt

Preparing the dough

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C (fan oven)
  2. Break the chocolate into pieces (you choose the size!)
  3. Put the chocolate back in the fridge so it stays cold
  4. Mix the butter, sugar, vanilla sugar, salt, and egg
  5. Mix until you get homogeneous dough (about 2 minutes with a mixer)
  6. Mix the flour and baking powder
  7. Gradually add the flour to the mixture
  8. The dough will be quite hard, so make sure to integrate all the flour
  9. Add the chocolate

Shaping the cookies

  1. Put parchment paper on a baking tray
  2. Form about eight dough balls with the mixture
  3. Place the balls on the tray, making sure to space them well
  4. Flatten the balls a little (they will flatten a bit more during baking)

Tip: Wet your fingers a little to flatten them and prevent the dough from sticking to your fingers.

Baking

  1. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes at 180°C (fan oven)
  2. The cookies should be golden on the edges
  3. Remove them from the oven and let them cool on a rack (without the parchment paper)

My recommendation: 8 minutes at 180°C, then increase to 190°C. Stay close to watch them, and take them out as soon as they start to brown on the edges.

Enjoy!

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