Chocolate & black pepper sable, French butter cookies that are melt in mouth. Black pepper adds a nice zing along with chocolate in this recipe.
Course Snack
Cuisine French, International
Keyword Chocolate cookies, Chocolate shortbread, Eggless baking, Eggless cookie, French biscuits, French shortbread
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 15 minutesminutes
resting time 1 hourhour
Total Time 1 hourhour30 minutesminutes
Servings 4People
Calories
Equipment
Convection oven
Measuring cups and spoons
Whisk and spatula
Ingredients
½cup+ 2 tablespoon All Purpose Flour
¼cupUnsweetened Cocoa Powder
½teaspoonFreshly Ground Black Pepper
¼teaspoonBaking Soda
6tablespoonsalted butter
½cupbrown sugar
½teaspooncinnamon powderVanilla Extract
½cupmini chocolate chips
Instructions
Mix Together flour, cocoa, pepper and baking soda using a whisk.
Using a electric beater, beat butter and sugar together in a bowl, until creamy and fluffy.
Add the flour mixture and chocolate chips to the butter-sugar mixture and form a soft dough.
Roll the dough to a log shape, cling wrap it and refrigerate for an hour. I shaped it to 2.5 inch diameter log.
I sometimes make the dough and let it rest overnight in the refrigerator. This way i can bake it first in the morning.
Just before pulling the cookie dough logs from the refrigerator, preheat the oven to 180C. Line a baking tray with parchment paper.
Take the cookie dough log out of the refrigerator, cut it ¼ inch thick disc and place it on the prepared tray, 2 inch apart.
Bake for 14-15 minutes or until no longer wet looking. Let it sit in the oven for a minute.
Take it out and cool it completely on the wire-rack. Store in an air-tight container @ room temperature.
Notes
I have halved the given recipe and i personally felt the amount of pepper could be more to feel the zing. May be ¾ teaspoon -1 teaspoon for the above measurement.
Do not bake the Cookies more than the given time they might crumble. First batch i baked for 17 minutes, thinking my oven might need a longer time, my cookies crumbled, while taking out of the oven. So i would suggest you to keep a watch from 14th minute.