American Spiced Cookies

⏳ Time

30 minutes

🥕 Ingredients

🍽️ Servings

Description

The butter should be of high quality with a high fat content. You can bake with margarine, but the taste will not be the same: the cookies will turn out crispier. Bring the butter and eggs to room temperature.

Ingredients

All-purpose flour - 1¾ cups
Butter - 4.4 oz
Brown Sugar - 1 cup
Eggs - 2 pieces
Salt - ½ teaspoon
Granulated sugar - 2 tablespoons
Baking Soda - ½ teaspoon
Baking Powder - ½ teaspoon
Chocolate - 7.1 oz
Instant coffee - 2 teaspoons
Nuts - 3.5 oz
Cinnamon - to taste
Turmeric - to taste
Ground coriander - to taste
Cocoa Powder - to taste
Honey - to taste

Step by Step guide

Step 1

Beat the butter with sugar and vanilla extract (vanillin or vanilla sugar) until airy and white. Add the eggs and beat again until homogeneous. You can reduce the amount of sugar by half, as the cookies can turn out too sweet. Place the mixture in the refrigerator. Put the chocolate in the freezer. Preheat the oven to 356°F.

Step 2

Sift the flour. Add salt, baking soda, baking powder with saffron (for aroma, but you can skip the saffron), instant coffee (optional), nuts (preferably salted roasted peanuts or walnuts), and mix until homogeneous.

Step 3

To the butter-sugar mixture, add cinnamon, turmeric, coriander, cardamom, cocoa powder, and liquid honey to taste. If the honey is very thick, it can be warmed in a water bath. Mix everything thoroughly and combine with the dry mixture. Mix again thoroughly and place in the refrigerator.

Step 4

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Step 5

Take the dough with hands moistened in cold water, roll it into a ball, and place it on the paper. For convenience, keep a bowl of water nearby.

Step 6

Take the chocolate out of the freezer and chop it into pieces. Press pieces of chocolate into the tops of the dough balls. The chocolate can be any type, but remember that white and any ultra-milk chocolate melt very quickly and leave an unpleasant sugary taste at high temperatures. For simplicity, you can use chocolate chips, but I prefer large pieces of chocolate.

Step 7

Bake the cookies for no more than 20 minutes. In my case, it's always 10. They are taken out of the oven, cooled on the paper for 10 minutes, and served with a glass of warm milk.