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Easy Cookies

5 from 2 votes
Course Dinner
Cuisine European
Servings 4 people

Ingredients
 

Base dough

  • 200 g Flour
  • 110 g Sugar
  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 1 Sachets Vanilla sugar
  • 125 g Butter / margarine
  • 1 Egg (or 1 teaspoon ground chia seeds + 50ml water)

Granola cookies

  • 6 tbsp Crunchy cereal
  • 1 tsp Cinnamon
  • 2 -3 tbsp Raisins, cranberries or other dried fruits

Chocolate Cookies

  • 4 tbsp Chocolate Chunks or Drops (sort to taste)

Instructions
 

Base dough

  • Put all dry ingredients in a bowl and mix. If you want to add spices such as cinnamon, clove, cardamom, etc., you can do it right now.
  • Mix the ground chia seeds with the water (crack open the egg with a fork) and cut the room-temperature butter into pieces.
  • Work everything into a soft dough with the dough hook.

Now you can pimp up the dough as you like!

  • Simply stir the desired ingredients into the dough. My two varieties serve as a guide for the amount, which is nonetheless variable. Instead of the Chocolate Chunks, you could also take Smarties or other delicacies, for example. Crushed chocolate bars should also work.
  • Try different nuts or maybe even pine, sunflower or pumpkin seeds. You can also experiment with dried fruits such as dates, figs, apricots, barberries, etc.

Portion and bake

  • Now portion the dough. Either with two tablespoons or a small ice cream scoop. Mine were about the size of a walnut.
  • Depending on what you have added to the dough, the cookies will spread apart. The ones with the chocolate chunks a lot more than the others. You have to pay attention to this when distributing it on the sheet. I recommend around 9 cookies per tray.
  • Shape the dough a little and press it flat to about 5mm. As a test, I had formed eggs from the muesli cookies, which worked. That wouldn't work with the Chocolate Chunk Cookies, they melt too much.
  • Now bake the cookies in the preheated oven at 175 ° top / bottom heat for about 12-15 minutes. The baking time depends on the size of the cookies and the desired tan. I take them out of the oven when the edges start to turn golden brown.
  • The cookies are now still soft and break very easily. Therefore, let them cool down a little first and then carefully place them on a wire rack to let them cool down completely.
  • My cookies are easy and quick to make and you can customize them to your own taste. Certainly also a delicious souvenir.
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Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 25 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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