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Chocolate is delicious, and cookies too! This makes it super hard to resist chocolate cookies. Suppose you buy cookies in the supermarket. In that case, there is most likely a lot of sugar inside, which is unhealthy and often also unnecessary since cookies can be really good with less sugar. The easiest way to get delicate, not too sweet, chocolate cookies is to make them on your own. Here is a recipe for the chocolate cookies I like most:

Ingredients:

• 230g Flour
•  20g Cocoa powder
•  a bit of salt
•  50g Sugar
•  175g cold unsalted Butter
•  1 Egg

Mix the flour with cocoa powder and salt. Rub the butter into the flour mixture with your fingers. This takes a little longer than if you would knead everything together but makes the dough nice and crumbly. Lastly, add sugar and the egg. Mix everything into a nice cookie dough. If it is too sticky, add a bit more flour. If you’re happy with the dough’s consistency, wrap it in cling film and leave it to rest in the fridge for at least an hour.

Roll out the dough thinly on a floured work surface (approx. 2-3 mm). Then, cut out the dough with a biscuit cutter. Place the cookies on a baking tray and bake in a preheated oven at 200°C for approx. 8-10 minutes.

Last important step: Enjoy the cookies with your loved ones 😉

How do you get an excellent chocolate taste? If you buy cocoa powder, try to find one where much cocoa butter is still inside. When producing cocoa powder, more or less of the cocoa butter is removed, but in the cocoa butter is much of the typical chocolate aroma we all love. So try to find a weakly deoiled cocoa powder.

Do you want to make a matcha version? Instead of the cocoa powder, take about 5 to 10g of matcha powder. You may have to add more flour. Remember that matcha has a natural herb and sometimes a bitter taste (especially baking matcha), so you might want to add a bit more sugar here.

I used edible gold powder to decorate the cookies.