How to Make Chocolate Cookies

How to Make Chocolate Cookies How to Make Chocolate Cookies With the festive seasons approaching, making cookies is no doubt a compulsory task. The popular belief that Santa loves to eat cookies and drink the milk before dropping off gift for kids makes kids request their mothers to bake cookies. Though many love to buy readymade chocolate cookies from the market, baking it at home has its own special charm and you can try your own magic tricks to make the cookies different from others.

So, if it is baking time for you during Christmas then get your best apron on and try to sharpen your culinary skills, you are bound to receive the best mom’s cap from your young ones. Making chocolate cookies may sound very easy but don’t go by the so-called simplicity of it, you may end up baking cookies that need hammers to break them. So, be careful with your baking. And if you are trying your hands at chocolate cookies, then here is some help for you.

Here is a list of things you need to have before making chocolate cookies.

1 medium and 1 large sized bowl.
A fork to mix or wooden spoon
Cookie sheet
1 Spatula
Wax paper

How to Make Chocolate Cookies1 How to Make Chocolate Cookies List of ingredients you would require.

Three cups of semisweet chocolate
One and half cups of brown sugar
Two tea spoons of Vanilla essence
Half cup of cocoa powder (preferably Dutch Process)
Two cups of flour
Two tea spoons of baking powder
1 cup of butter
Two tea spoons of coffee granules
Four mid sized eggs
Half cup of white sugar
One tea spoon of Salt

With this you are all set to make chocolate cookies:

Melt the chocolate and make sure you don’t burn it else it would become bitter. You can keep stirring it to make it into a smooth paste.
You would need to mix baking powder, cocoa, flour and salt. Filter it once or twice with a regular filter. If you use the dry filter, it would make sure the different powders mix properly. Keep it ready to make the dough.
Mix cream butter and brown and white sugar together. Make a smooth paste and keep.
In another bowl beat the eggs one by one and mix coffee granules and vanilla essence and blend them really well.
Use a wooden spoon or fork to stir the melted chocolate. Now shift the flour and cocoa mixture to it. Mix them properly making sure there are no lumps in it.
Leave it aside to set for about 30 minutes. You can cover it to keep it safe.
Get your oven ready with about 350 degrees F.
Keep two cookies sheet with wax paper.
Place small sized cookies on the paper and bake.
Bake the cookies for about 10 minutes
Take them out from the oven and let it get cold
Chocolate cookies are usually soft when you take them out from the oven, so let it get cold.
You can bake the cookies a bit longer to make them even crispier.

Try different shapes like heart, star or teddy bear shapes to please kids. They would literally eat out of your hands with pleasure.