Drops are gaining more and more popularity. Both adults and children love him. And the secret here is simple preparation and incredible taste. Cookies with chocolate turn out tender, crumbly and light, which cannot leave any sweet tooth indifferent.
Classic cookies with chocolate chips
Required ingredients:
- 150 g chocolate drops;
- 400 g high quality flour;
- salt (to taste);
- 130 g coconut oil;
- 2 teaspoons of soda;
- 2 teaspoons cane sugar, vanilla;
- 250 g granulated sugar;
- one egg.
Cooking process:
- In the required container, mix sugar, salt and vanilla.
- Add butter and flour to the mixture, mix with a whisk.
- Then pour the egg into the mixture and knead the dough with your hands.
- Carefully add chocolate pieces to the finished dough and stir with a silicone spatula.
- Roll the dough into small balls, three centimeters in diameter.
- Cover a baking sheet with parchment.
- Place the balls on a baking sheet in a loose order, but not crowded together. You can press them down a little.
- Bake cookies for 15-20 minutes.
New Year's cookies with nuts
Ingredients (for 15 pieces):
- 400 g chocolate drops or pieces;
- 450 g high quality flour;
- 150 g finely ground cane sugar;
- 1 teaspoon baking powder;
- 100 g melted butter or coconut oil;
- 50 g baby applesauce;
- salt (to taste);
- 1-2 chicken eggs;
- 250 g medium-ground walnuts.
Cooking instructions:
- Mix sifted flour with baking soda or baking powder.
- Using a blender or whisk, beat applesauce, sugar, salt, and butter in a container. Then add the eggs to the mixture without ceasing to beat.
- Then add flour to the bowl and stir until smooth.
- Add chocolate chips and walnuts to the dough and mix gently.
- Using an ice cream scoop, form balls and place them loosely on the baking sheet.
- Bake in preheated oven for 16 minutes.
- The cookies will be done when they have darkened around the edges but are still soft in the center.
Analogues of chocolate drops
If for some reason you cannot find confectionery drops in stores, you can use chocolate pieces instead or prepare such drops yourself. Confectionery drops can be used not only in making cookies, but also in various desserts and homemade baked goods.
If you don’t have time to shop and prepare drops, you can grind a simple chocolate bar in a blender or by hand; you can determine the size of the pieces yourself. Excellent taste is obtained by combining milk and dark chocolate or white and milk chocolate.
Chocolate drops at home
How to make them yourself? The chocolate chips recipe is quite simple and does not require any cooking experience.
Grocery list:
- 120 g milk chocolate;
- 2 tablespoons glucose syrup;
- 60 g coconut oil;
- half a teaspoon of vanilla;
- pastry sleeve;
- parchment or baking paper.
Cooking process:
- Coconut oil should be heated in a saucepan.
- Before the oil boils, it should be removed from the heat and cooled.
- Melt the chocolate and cool to room temperature.
- Pour the oil into a convenient bottle and add the cooled chocolate, vanilla and syrup.
- Mix all ingredients using a blender until smooth and freeze in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
- The mixture should be transferred to a pastry bag and squeezed out onto parchment paper. This can be done in any sequence and with the drops closely spaced.
- Afterwards, the filled parchment should be moved to a tray and put in the freezer for half an hour.
Chocolate drops are ready! The only thing that should be observed in storage is not to leave the drops at room temperature. They should be taken out of the freezer just before use, otherwise they will melt.
06/02/2017
It is very convenient to have ready-made chocolate drops on hand, which can be used for making desserts and sweet homemade baked goods. But the quality of this store-bought product today raises serious doubts, since very often it contains palm oil, various stabilizers and flavoring additives.
Therefore, we propose to make such chocolate drops yourself, the quality and freshness of which you will be confident in, you can safely eat them and give them to your children.
Chocolate drops at home
What you will need to prepare chocolate drops:
- 1 cup cocoa powder;
- ½ cup coconut oil;
- 4 tablespoons honey;
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract;
- large tray;
- baking parchment;
- piping bag with tip.
A simple recipe for making chocolate chips
If you don't have a piping bag, you can substitute a zip-top plastic bag.
Step 1
Melt the coconut oil in a double boiler. Just before the butter completely melts, remove it from the heat, pour it into a large container to cool, and stir. The coconut oil should become clear.
Step 2
Add cocoa powder, honey and vanilla to the butter.
Step 3
Mix all the ingredients until a homogeneous mass is formed and put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to make it easier to work with in the future.
Step 4
Once cooled, fill a piping bag or bag with chocolate mixture. Cut off one corner of the bag. If you have a tip, place it in the bag before filling with chocolate. Pipe a drop of chocolate mixture onto the parchment-lined tray until the entire surface is covered. You can place the drops close to each other, this way you will save space and you will not need an additional tray.
Step 5
Place the tray of chocolate chips in the freezer for 20 minutes. If the tray does not fit in the freezer, place it in the refrigerator for 1 hour, then transfer the frozen drops to a ziplock bag and place in the freezer for 20 minutes.
Store the finished chocolate chips in the freezer in a tightly sealed bag., and remove just before eating because they will melt quickly at room temperature.
By the way, here is a simple recipe for delicious chocolate pudding using chocolate chips that may come in handy.
And for dessert we offer a wonderful recipe for American chocolate chip cookies. Do not miss!
Homemade baked goods always seem tastier than products from a store or pastry shop around the corner. That's right, in the process of making cookies, the housewife, in addition to the main ingredients, adds a drop of love, joy and warmth. Today we are replenishing our culinary treasury and preparing cookies with chocolate chips.
Chocolate treat for the whole family
Almost all adults and children love chocolate. This sweetness can be used to make delicious baked goods. The recipe for chocolate chip cookies is quite simple. You can deviate a little from the recipe. Do not add chocolate to the dough, but simply decorate the top of the cookie dough before baking.
On a note! It is best to use confectionery icing or special drops purchased at a specialty store. In the absence of such, take a bar of any chocolate and nuts.
Compound:
- 0.1 kg dark chocolate;
- 100 g granulated sugar;
- 230 g wheat flour;
- 2 tbsp. l. cocoa powder;
- 1 chicken egg;
- 1/3 tsp. baking powder;
- 1 tsp. cinnamon powder;
- 125 g butter.
Preparation:
On a note! You don't have to add cocoa powder to the dough. Then you will have white cookies with chocolate chips. You can add some nuts to vary the taste.
American chocolate chip cookies
In the baking world, everyone thinks that chocolate chip cookies are an American staple. Let's find out how such a dessert is prepared on another continent.
Compound:
- chocolate drops - 0.4 kg;
- 0.45 kg of premium wheat flour;
- granulated cane sugar - 150 g;
- 1 tsp. baking powder;
- melted butter - 0.1 kg;
- applesauce - 50 g;
- a pinch of fine-grained salt;
- 0.25 kg chopped walnuts;
- 2 pcs. chicken eggs.
Preparation:
- Sift high-grade flour into a deep bowl.
- Add baking powder and mix the dry ingredients thoroughly. If you don't have baking powder on hand, use baking soda.
- Place applesauce in a separate deep bowl.
- Add granulated cane sugar, melted butter and a pinch of fine grain salt.
- Using a blender or mixer, beat these ingredients until a mass of homogeneous consistency is obtained.
- At minimum speed we continue to beat this mass. Add chicken eggs one at a time.
- Continue beating until smooth.
- Combine the resulting mass with flour.
- Knead the dough by hand.
- During the kneading process, add chopped walnuts and chocolate drops into the dough.
- Place a sheet of parchment paper or aluminum foil on a baking sheet.
- We lay out the cookie dough and place it in the oven for a quarter of an hour.
- The optimal temperature for baking is 180°.
On a note! When these cookies are ready, the edging will be covered with a crust, and the middle will remain soft.
Hello from childhood
Many of us enjoyed bagels and oatmeal cookies as children. To this day, oatmeal cookies remain a delicious sweet for adults and children. Let's improve the classic recipe a little and make oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips.
Compound:
- 2 tbsp. oatmeal;
- coconut flakes to taste;
- 0.1 kg butter or margarine for baking;
- 1 ½ tbsp. wheat flour;
- 1 tbsp. granulated sugar;
- 1 chicken egg;
- 1 tsp. baking powder;
- 100 g chocolate.
Preparation:
Chocolate- a confectionery product based on cocoa butter, which is a product of processing cocoa beans - the seeds of the chocolate tree, rich in theobromine and caffeine.
Chocolate chips are easy to makeat home, but probably the only and main difference with store-bought ones will be that homemade ones will have to be stored in the freezer, because... they do not acquire properties that allow them to retain the shape they give to chocolate under normal room conditions.
We will need:
Chocolate bar
Pastry bag/syringe
Foil
This is done like this:
1. Melt the chocolate in a water bath.
2. Cool to room temperature, it is important to ensure that the chocolate does not harden.
3. Transfer the chocolate to a piping bag/syringe.
4. Squeeze the chocolate into small droplets onto the foil.
5. Place the drops in the freezer for 3-4 hours.
Store these drops in the cold.
Some interesting facts about chocolate:
1. Real chocolate is a confectionery product in the production of which only cocoa butter and cocoa mass are used (a ground mixture of grains of cocoa beans in cocoa butter), and not a product based on cocoa powder and cocoa butter substitutes based on a mixture of vegetable fats.
2. After a small portion of chocolate, people cope better with mathematical problems - this has been proven by scientists from the UK.
3. Many people claim that after a few pieces of chocolate they think better.
4. Chocolate dulls the feeling of hunger. It is enough to eat 10 grams of dark chocolate to make your hunger go away.
5. Chocolate lovers live longer. The research proving this lasted more than 60 years. Eating chocolate regularly can add a year to your life.
6. Chocolate is good for the heart. People who regularly consume chocolate reduce their risk of heart disease by 37%.
7. When making aerated chocolate, the chocolate mass is intensively saturated with gas during the beating process, and at the moment of dosing the chocolate from the casting head into the molds, an intensive release of gas begins in the form of bubbles throughout the entire volume of the chocolate bar. Each factory that produces aerated chocolate has its own regimes and its own secrets for preparing aerated chocolate.
8. How is white chocolate made? The basis of a chocolate bar, what makes it hold its shape, is cocoa butter, which is white in color. Add milk powder and powdered sugar to it and you get white chocolate, while cocoa butter gives the chocolate aroma.
9. July 11 - World Chocolate Day. Chocolate Day was first created by the French in 1995.
10. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of its activity, the Armenian confectionery factory Grand Candy set a world record by producing the largest chocolate bar weighing 4.41 tons, which is listed in the Guinness Book of Records. The record chocolate bar was produced within 4 days, its length is 5.6 m, width - 2.75 m, and height 25 cm.
