A touch of frosting: Snow-crackle cookies

MAKES ABOUT 14 

50g plain flour

20g cocoa

½ tsp baking powder

75g golden caster sugar

30g unsalted butter diced

 1 medium egg

30g dark chocolate (about 70 per cent cocoa) finely chopped

about 30g icing sugar

  • Sift the flour, cocoa and baking powder in a medium bowl, then stir in the sugar. Whiz the butter in a food processor until soft and creamy, then add the egg (don’t worry about the mixture appearing curdled at this point). Add the sifted ingredients half at a time and work to a sticky dough. Transfer the mixture to a medium bowl, then mix in the chopped chocolate. Cover and chill the dough for a couple of hours or overnight.
  • Preheat the oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5 and line a baking sheet with baking paper, securing the corners using dabs of the dough. Sift the icing sugar into a shallow bowl. Roll the dough into balls the size of a cherry (about 15g). Roll each one in the icing sugar so they are well coated and arrange on the baking trays, spacing them about 5cm apart.
  • Bake for 10-12 minutes; the cookies should be crisp on the outside and gooey within. The icing sugar will crackle to look like icebergs in a sea of chocolate as they bake. Leave to cool for 5 minutes before loosening them using a spatula, transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool. They will keep well loosely covered with clingfilm for several days.

 

  • Food styling Clare Lewis 
  • Styling Sue Radcliffe



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