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Special tools: -heavy duty stand mixer (again, hand mixer will do in a pinch)
Ingredients 2 C. Jeanne's Gluten-Free Flour mixture (or regular flour for non-gf) 3/4 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. baking powder 3/4 tsp. coarse salt (like kosher salt) 1 1/4 sticks (10 TBL) unsalted butter at room temperature 1/2 C. dark brown sugar 1/2 C. granulated sugar 1 large egg 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract 12 oz. chocolate disks or feves (Valhrona+ E. GuittardĀ make these), at least 60% cacao content Sea salt for sprinkling
-cream butter and two sugars together using a mixer with a paddle attachment until fluffy--at least 5 mins. -add egg, mix to combine -add vanilla, mix to combine -in a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt -add dry ingredients, mix just until combined -add chocolate disks by hand, incorporate (try not to break the pieces)
-cover with plastic wrap, pressing the wrap against the dough, and refrigerate for 24 to 36 hours. Can be refrigerated up to 72 hours (although I went away for several days and came back, made the cookies, and they tasted fine).
-when ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees -line baking sheet with parchment paper or Silpat mat -scoop up dough into golf ball-sized amounts (this is hard because the dough will be hard and cold--I had to use a butter knife to carve out chunks of dough to work with. I then shaped these into balls with my hand). -place on baking sheet -press down each cookie a bit flatter with the bottom of a glass (not too flat, just so they're not ball-shaped) -sprinkle each cookie with sea salt (at first I used flake-type sea salt--I found these to be a bit too salty, though other people liked them. Then I used coarse sea salt--again, a bit to salty for me. Then I used regular-grained sea salt--this tasted best to me).
-Bake for 17 minutes (they will look underdone, but they're not).
-cool slightly on sheet, then transfer to wire cooling rack.
-These are best eaten warm from the oven. When they are cooled and have been sitting around for a few hours, they get harder and harder--more like a store-bought cookie. Still yummy, but not as sublime as the just-out-of-the-oven cookies. |