
Rye Espresso Chocolate Chunk Cookies
By Juan Manuel Gavilán
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Yields: 15-20
This cookie is packed full of complex flavour with our 60/40 Baker’s Blend flour which is made up of white flour, whole grains, and sprouted flours. Mix all that with the most harmonious trio of ingredients for a cookie - rye, chocolate, and espresso! This gourmet cookie is simple enough for a lunch box, but with Valentine’s Day coming up, we can attest that it is also exquisite enough for a special occasion!
[[Ingredients]]
- 225g (1 cup) unsalted butter, diced
- 3 tbsp freshly ground coffee
- 200g (1 1/2 cup) Anita’s Organic 60/40 Baker’s Blend Flour
- 200g (1 1/2 cup) Anita’s Organic Rye Flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
- 200g (1 cup) light brown sugar
- 150g (3/4 cup) cane sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 large egg yolks
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 340g (1 cup) dark chocolate, roughly chopped
- flaked sea salt, for sprinkling
[[Instructions]]
- In a small sauce pan add butter and cook over medium/high heat until fully melted and just starting to bubble. Remove from heat, add coffee, and stir together. Set aside to cool.
- In a medium bowl, mix together the flours, salt, baking powder and soda and set aside.
- In another large bowl, pour the butter and mix in the sugars then the eggs, yolks and vanilla. Whisk together until fully combined and uniform. Add the flour mixture and use a wooden spoon to mix together until uniformly mixed. Add the chocolate and mix briefly to distribute evenly. Press a sheet of beeswax wrap onto the surface of the cookie dough and refrigerate for at least 4 hours, or overnight.
- When ready to bake preheat the oven to 180C and line a few baking trays with parchment paper, or reusable parchment alternative.
- Divide the dough and roll into balls. Place cookies onto the prepared baking trays a few inches apart and sprinkle with a little flaked sea salt. Bake in the preheated oven for about 12-15 minutes or until the cookies are golden around the outside but still a little paler in the middle. Remove the trays from the oven and allow the cookies to cool for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cooled.
- Keep in a sealed container for several days, or in the freezer for several months. However, we don’t think they’ll last for more than a few hours if anyone is close enough to smell them when fresh baked!