Chocolate Chili Cookies

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 300 g dark chocolate coating
• 100 g butter
• 3 eggs
• 250 g sugar
• 100 g flour
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 1 pinch of salt
• 100 g chocolate chips
• 1 ½ chili peppers (Bhut Jolokia and Trinidad Moruga Scorpion)

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Rest time approx. 1 hour; Cooking/baking time approx. 8 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour 38 minutes

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Roughly chop the chocolate coating and melt it in a metal bowl over a hot water bath. Once the chocolate coating has melted, add the butter in flakes and melt it too. Beat the eggs and sugar until thick and creamy. Mix the flour, baking powder, and salt and stir into the chocolate butter. Finely chop the chili peppers and stir them into the batter along with the chocolate chips. Cover the batter and refrigerate for about 1 hour. Preheat the oven to 180°C (fan: 160°C, gas mark 3). Using a teaspoon, place small heaps of batter onto baking sheets lined with baking paper. Bake in the hot oven for about 8 minutes per sheet, until the edges are crisp and the cookies begin to crack. Carefully remove the cookies from the baking sheet, place them on a wire rack, and let them cool.