How to bake cracked cookies at home? TOP 4 recipes with photos of chocolate, marble, lemon crackers. Tips and subtleties of cooking. Video recipes.
Cracked, cracked or marbled biscuits, chocolate and lemon … These sweet pastry baked goods come in several names and variations, and each recipe is a delicious gourmet delicacy. Such a beautiful, tasty and nutritious dessert will cheer you up and attract the attention of children and adults. In this article, we will learn how to quickly and easily bake enticing airy delicious pastries with a pleasant aroma.
Cooking Tips & Chef Secrets
- The secret of a chocolate chip cookie lies in a single ingredient - cocoa or chocolate, while a lemon cookie is in lemon zest.
- If you use cocoa in your recipe, use high-quality cocoa. the taste and aroma of the cookies depends on it. Use dark chocolate with a high cocoa content, at least 70%.
- To ensure your cracked chocolate chip cookies have the perfect consistency and shape, work quickly enough when sculpting the balls. Otherwise, the chocolate will start to melt in your hands, and the shape of the products will not turn out to be neat.
- You can experiment to add variety to your cracked biscuits. For example, place a nut, a slice of chocolate, a piece of prune or dried apricots inside a chocolate ball.
- The biscuits get sinuous cracks and an interesting contrast thanks to the spraying of powdered sugar before baking. Therefore, carefully dip the formed balls of dough into it.
- You can add a little cinnamon to roll the products in powdered sugar, or use colored sugar, ground into powdered sugar.
- When placing cookies on a baking sheet, keep the distance between the products, because during the baking process, it will increase in diameter and volume. And the distance will allow them not to stick to each other.
- Place the baking tray with balls only in a preheated oven.
Chocolate cookies
Cracked chocolate chip cookies with a delicate crust on the outside and soft, slightly damp on the inside. It is prepared very simply and quickly, but it turns out to be absolutely not sugary, despite the presence of sugar and chocolate.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 489 kcal.
- Servings Per Container - 5-6
- Cooking time - 2 hours 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- Flour - 1, 5 tbsp.
- Cocoa powder - 1 tablespoon
- Butter - 80 g
- Bitter chocolate - 100 g
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Sugar - 100 g
- Powdered sugar - for breading
- Baking powder for dough - 1 sachet
Making Cracked Chocolate Chip Cookies:
- In a water bath, melt the butter and chocolate until smooth and cool to room temperature. Do not bring the mass to a boil.
- Combine sugar with eggs and a mixer at maximum speed, beat for 10 minutes until smooth and fluffy.
- Combine the beaten eggs with the creamy chocolate mixture and stir until smooth.
- Mix flour with baking powder, sift and add to food.
- Knead a thick, pasta-like dough. Cover it with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1.5-2 hours. During this time, it will harden and acquire the consistency of "plasticine".
- Pinch off a piece of dough from the total mass, roll it into a ball the size of a walnut and roll generously in powdered sugar.
- Place the future cookies on a baking sheet lined with baking paper at a distance of 5 cm from each other.
- Send them to bake in a preheated oven to 180 ° C for 13-15 minutes.
Brownie with cracks
The iconic brownie cracked chocolate chip cookies are incredibly beautiful baked goods that are crispy and tender at the same time. The cookie, like the brownie, should come out slightly under-baked on the inside, soft and melting in the mouth.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 160 g
- Cocoa powder - 60 g
- Sugar - 150 g
- Butter - 50 g
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Vanillin - 1 tsp
- Salt - a pinch
- Baking powder - 6 g
- Powdered sugar for boning - 80 g
Making Cracked Brownie Cracked Cookies:
- Combine, stir and sift dry foods: flour, salt, baking powder, cocoa powder.
- In another container, combine the eggs with sugar and beat with a mixer until the sugar is completely dissolved. Add vanillin to the beaten egg mass and stir.
- Add room temperature butter to the egg mixture and beat with a mixer until smooth.
- Add the loose mass to the liquid mixture and knead a not very thick dough so that it stays on the spatula. Cover it with cling film and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Spoon the hardened dough into small balls and roll them in the sifted powdered sugar.
- Transfer the blanks to a baking sheet covered with a silicone mat and put the cookies in a preheated oven to 190 ° C to bake for 10 minutes.
Lemon cookies
Citrus aroma and light sourness, crispy crust and delicate inside - cracked lemon biscuits. The recipe is simple and affordable. It is very similar to cracked chocolate chip cookies, or, as it is also called, marbled cookies.
Ingredients:
- Lemon - 1 pc.
- Sugar - 3 tablespoons
- Flour - 6 tablespoons
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Butter - 50 g
- Baking powder - 0.5 tsp
- Powdered sugar - 2-3 tablespoons
- Vanillin - 0.5 tsp
Making lemon cracked biscuits:
- Wash the lemon well, dry it and remove the zest with a fine grater.
- Add sugar to the zest and grind well. Then add softened butter and beat with a mixer until smooth.
- Pour eggs into the products and beat again.
- Then add vanillin, baking powder, a pinch of salt and sifted flour.
- Knead a soft dough, cover it with cling film and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Make small balls from the chilled dough and roll them in the icing sugar.
- Put the products on a baking sheet covered with parchment and send them to a preheated oven to 180 ° C to bake for 10 minutes.
- Place the cracked lemon cookies on a wire rack to cool.
Cocoa cookies
Marble chocolate biscuits are the most delicate inside and with a crumbly top covered with a thin sugar crust. It turns out to be beautiful, with cute cracks and chocolate flavor.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 160 g
- Insoluble cocoa - 60 g
- Butter at room temperature - 50 g
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Sugar - 150 g
- Vanillin - 1 g
- Salt - a pinch
- Baking powder - 1 tsp
- Powdered sugar - for sprinkling (about 50 g)
Making Cracked Cocoa Cookies:
- Mix soft butter with a mixer with sugar until the mass is lightened. Add eggs and beat with a mixer until the sugar dissolves.
- Mix and sift all bulk ingredients (cocoa powder, vanillin, baking powder, salt and flour).
- Add the dry mixture in portions to the liquid mass and mix until a homogeneous thick and viscous mass. Cover it with cling film and refrigerate for 2 hours.
- For thickened dough, take with a teaspoon and form into balls the size of a walnut.
- Dip the chocolates in the powdered sugar and place them on a parchment-lined baking sheet a short distance apart.
- Bake the marbled cracked chocolate chip cookies in a preheated oven to 190 ° C for 10 minutes.
