Light and tasty cookies with peanuts and chocolate are traditional baked goods of American housewives. Delicate and soft, aromatic and satisfying, quick and easy to prepare. Read in this review, all the subtleties and secrets of its preparation.
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- How to make peanut cookies - cooking features and basic recipe
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Light crunch, chocolate burst, peanut shards settling in the corners of the lips and sweet taste spreading in the mouth - peanut cookies with chocolate. It is a piece of heavenly pleasure that fits between the thumb and forefinger. It's time to learn how to cook in your kitchen the most modern classic of American pastry chefs - peanut and chocolate cookies.
Everything you need to know about this pastry: composition, rules for choosing ingredients and how to serve it. At first glance, it may seem that cooking it is very simple: beat eggs, add butter, mix with flour, put chocolate with peanuts, put in circles on a baking sheet - and you're done. But, this is far from the case. Cookies are a very delicate thing and it will turn out only if you follow all the instructions and follow the recipe.
How to make peanut cookies - cooking features and basic recipe
Peanut biscuits are a recognized treat for children and adults. It has a special, unique taste, for which everyone loves it. Peanut biscuits can easily replace a full breakfast, especially when supplemented with a glass of warm milk. Cookies are very nutritious and contain a range of nutrients. There are countless ways to prepare it: dietary, lean, savory, vegetarian. There are so many recipes that any sweet tooth, and not only, will choose the composition of the baked goods to taste.
- The butter or margarine included in the recipe must be removed from the refrigerator in advance so that they become plastic, soft and easily mix with other components.
- If biscuits are preferred crunchy and slightly hard, then the butter and margarine should be reheated to a liquid state.
- In order for the texture of the cookies to be viscous, they are baked for no more than 10 minutes, for a crispy consistency - 30 minutes.
- You can use peanut kernels, peanut butter, or peanut flour for the recipe.
- Chocolate is used mainly black, but milk is also suitable.
- Chocolate is crushed with a sharp knife into small or medium pieces, or special chocolate drops are used.
- Cookies are usually small in diameter - 4, 5-5 cm.
- The baking tray is not greased with fat and does not become covered with parchment, since there is a lot of oil in the dough, it does not stick to the bottom surface.
- Peanuts can be pre-roasted or dried in the oven. Also, if desired, it is used peeled from the husk, or together with it. You can also buy lightly salted peanuts.
- The finished cookie turns out to be appetizing and cute in appearance. But to diversify and make it more elegant, you can decorate with powdered sugar, grease with icing sugar, cover with melted chocolate, grease with jam or jam.
Below is a basic chocolate peanut cookie recipe. It can be used as a base and idea to experiment endlessly with a variety of nuts and fillings. In addition, peanut biscuits can be easily modified into any other peanut biscuit made from any favorite nuts.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 320 kcal.
- Servings - 20
- Cooking time - 1 hour
Ingredients:
- Peanuts - 1 tbsp.
- Dark chocolate - 100 g
- Flour - 1, 5 tbsp.
- Butter - 100 g
- Sugar - 0.5 tbsp.
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Baking soda - 0.5 tsp slaked with vinegar
- Salt - a pinch
Step by step cooking:
- Mash sugar with egg and softened butter until smooth.
- Add a pinch of salt, slaked vinegar and 1 tbsp. flour. Stir.
- In a food processor, finely grind the peanuts or beat them with a kitchen hammer.
- Chop the chocolate into small pieces.
- Add crushed peanuts with chocolate to the dough and mix thoroughly. If the dough turns out to be liquid, then gradually add the remaining 0.5 tbsp. flour. Set aside the rest of the flour for rolling. The consistency of the dough should be loose and soft.
- Place the dough in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes. But if time is short, then you can immediately start baking.
- Form the dough into balls the size of a large walnut, dump in flour and place on a baking sheet. Press lightly with your fingers to make a round cake.
- Heat the oven to 180 ° C and bake the product for 15-20 minutes until browning. These cookies will turn out to be crumbly and soft. The exact baking time depends on the size of the cookies.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Peanut butter is a smooth paste made from roasted peanuts. You can buy it in the store or prepare it yourself. For this, the peanuts are pre-crushed and sugar and salt are added to the mixture. The most valuable property of peanut butter is its lack of cholesterol. The product is very useful and has an excellent ability to transform the taste of the product.
Ingredients:
- Butter - 200 g
- Sugar - 100 g or to taste
- Vanilla sugar - 1 tsp
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Flour - 1, 5 tbsp.
- Baking powder - 1.5 tsp
- Peanut butter - 100 g
- Chocolate drops - 100 g
Step by step cooking:
- Beat the softened butter and sugar with a white mixer. Add vanillin and stir again until smooth.
- Pour the egg into the mass and mix again with a mixer.
- Sift flour with baking powder through a sieve and pour into the dough. Knead the dough until smooth.
- Add peanut butter and chocolate drops to the dough.
- Knead the dough until smooth and form into balls 3-4 cm in diameter, which are placed on a baking sheet.
- Press the balls down until they take the shape of a cake.
- Send the cookies to bake in a preheated oven at 180 ° C for 15 minutes.
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