Chocolate Butter Cookies that Melt in your Mouth
Chocolate butter cookies that have a soft crunch and a melt-in-your-mouth quality with a deep cocoa flavour and an intense butter scent and a salty note.
Servings 8 people
Calories 510kcal
Ingredients
- 150 g butter room temperature
- 250 g granulated sugar
- 100 ml vegetable oil
- 275 g flour
- 16 g baking powder
- 45 g cocoa powder unsweetened
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Cream the butter and sugar with an electric mixer for a couple of minutes. Pour in the oil in a slow stream always beating, next beat in the vanilla extract and then stop the mixer.
- Combine the flour, baking powder, cocoa and salt and sift into butter mixture. Start the mixer again and incorporate at slow speed. The final batter will be quite hard so stop the mixer if it becomes too hard to handle and switch to the hook attachments if necessary.
- Roll the dough into small balls weighing in at about 15-18 grams each - that's about 1 tablespoon of dough. Place each ball on a cookie tray lined with baking paper leaving some space for the cookies to expand as they bake.
- Bake at 150°C (300°F) for 20 minutes. The cookies will lightly flatten and crinkle on the top. When baked, take out of the oven and carefully slide the parchment paper away from the hot tray.
Notes
- As soon as you take them out of the oven, the cookies are extremely fragile as they will stabilize as they cool, so handle with extreme care when removing from the hot tray.
- If using salted butter you may reduce the salt to 1/3 tsp. However, don't completely skip the salt as it helps to balance out the flavours and make the cocoa flavour shine,
Nutrition
Calories: 510kcal | Carbohydrates: 62g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 29g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 40mg | Sodium: 494mg | Potassium: 130mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 32g | Vitamin A: 469IU | Calcium: 135mg | Iron: 3mg