Chewy Chocolate Sugar Cookies with Cardamom

I’ve been making some model of those chocolate sugar cookies with cardamom for twenty years, and the recipe has made it’s method, with numerous tweaks, into two of my cookbooks. On this recipe, the chocolate dough balls are rolled in granulated sugar that’s blended with cardamom.

These cookies are simple to make, and provides to my listing of finest vacation cookie field recipes. In addition they will fulfill any chocolate craving you could have.

I had by no means even heard of cardamom till I began working on the Blue Heron Coffeehouse; Colleen had made cardamom chocolate scones and after one chunk I used to be fully hooked. I made positive cardamom discovered it’s method into quite a lot of my baking, from Pound Cake to Sugar Buns to Layer Cake. Whereas I like all of these recipes, my favourite method to make use of it’s nonetheless paired with chocolate. When you’re not a fan of a cardamom, I believe you’ll love my Chocolate Espresso Sugar Cookies.

These cookies have deep chocolate taste, barely crisp edges the day of baking, and a young, wealthy heart that lasts for days. They extremely simple to make, no refrigeration of the dough wanted. They usually freeze properly, which helps when planning vacation get-togethers.

Ingredient Notes for Chocolate Sugar Cookies:

• All-Objective Flour: Make sure that your all-purpose flour shouldn’t be too excessive or low in protein; I like to make use of Gold Medal unbleached all-purpose for cookie baking. At 10.5 p.c protein it’s a good, average option to hold baked items tender.
• Unsalted Butter: I exploit unsalted butter in my recipes so I can management the salt content material. This recipe makes use of each salt within the dough and sprinkled on high earlier than baking, so unsalted works properly right here to be able to hold the cookies from getting too salty.
• Chocolate: These cookies are all concerning the chocolate, and so utilizing your favourite cocoa powder and bar chocolate will probably be essential. My present favourite cocoa powder is Guittard’s Cocoa Rogue Unsweetened Dutch Cocoa Powder, and for the chopped chocolate I like Valrhona’s Equatoriale Noire. Dealer Joe’s Darkish Chocolate Bar additionally works very well.
• Cardamom: Freshly floor cardamom is superb on this recipe and can provide essentially the most taste, however you can even use pre-ground cardamom with good outcomes. Diaspora’s Baraka Cardamom is superb. If cardamom isn’t your factor, you may omit it from the recipe.

Can The Cookie Dough Be Frozen?

This cookie dough might be fashioned into balls and frozen for as much as 2 weeks; let the cookies sit out at room temperature till the oven preheats. The cookies will want an additional minute if baked frozen. Additionally, cookie dough might be fashioned and refrigerated in a single day, then baked the subsequent day; the cookies might have an additional minute if chilled. Baked cookies may also be frozen: retailer them in a freezer-safe bag or container for as much as 2 weeks.

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• 2 cups [284 g] all-purpose flour*
• 1/2 cup [50 g] Dutch-process cocoa powder
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon nice salt
• 1 cup [2 sticks or 227 g] unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 3/4 cup [350 g] granulated sugar, plus 1/2 cup [100 g] for rolling
• 1 massive egg
• 1 massive egg yolk
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 2 oz [57 g] semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, chopped into bite-sized items
• 1 teaspoon floor cardamom

• Alter an oven rack to the center of the oven. Preheat the oven to 350F [180C]. Line three sheet pans with parchment paper.

• In a small bowl, mix the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.

• Within the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle, beat the butter on medium pace till creamy, about 1 minute. Add 1 3/4 cup [350 g] of the sugar, and beat once more till mild and fluffy, 2 to three minutes. Add the egg, yolk, and vanilla, and beat on low pace till mixed. Add the flour combination and beat once more on low pace till simply mixed, then add the chopped chocolate and blend till included.

• Place the remaining 1/2 cup [100 g] of granulated sugar and cardamom in a medium bowl, and whisk to mix.

• Scoop the dough into 1 1/2 oz [45 g] parts [2 tablespoons]. Roll every ball within the sugar till they’re evenly coated. Place 8 cookies on every sheet pan.

• Bake one pan at a time, rotating midway by means of baking. Bake till the edges are set and the highest begins to crackle, 12 to 14 minutes.

• Switch the sheet pan to a wire rack and let the cookies cool for five to 10 minutes on the pan, then take away the cookies and allow them to cool fully on the wire rack.

• Retailer the cookies in an hermetic container at room temperature for as much as 3 days.

All through my recipes posted on this web site, 1 cup of flour equals 142g. Please word that 1 cup of flour can vary wherever from 120g to 142g, relying on the baker or web site. I discovered that after weighting many cups of flour and averaging the full, mine at all times ended up round this quantity. If I’m posting a recipe from one other cookbook, I’ll use no matter gram measure of flour utilized in that e-book, which is why you might even see a number of posts with a unique cup measurement.
Completely different manufacturers of flour have various ranges of protein, starting from low to excessive, which may end up in very totally different outcomes when baking. I’ve discovered Gold Medal all-purpose unbleached flour to be the best choice for a lot of of my recipes; I exploit it in all of the baked items that don’t use yeast.