Everything You Wanted To Know About Chocolate Almond Cookies
Everybody likes chocolate. No matter if they are children, adults or elderly people, it is very hard to find someone who will tell you he or she does not like this delicious treat. Nowadays you can choose from many hundreds of chocolate assortments: you can buy simple chocolate (white, brown or dark), chocolate assortments with different types of liqueurs, chocolate almond. Chocolate is even recommended for the beneficial properties it has on the body, if consumed in moderated amounts. It has a very powerful antioxidant action and some medics believe consuming a small amount of chocolate every day it will lower your high blood pressure. You can even find chocolate for diabetics or for people on a diet. The possibilities when it comes to chocolate choosing and almost endless. There are very affordable assortments, but you can also find chocolate which costs several hundred dollars per piece. There are as many chocolate assortments on the market as there are tastes for it. When it comes to offering a gift for somebody, or when you want to offer your wife or girlfriend a small surprise and you are out of ideas, a small box of chocolates will save your day.
Many people do not enjoy simple chocolate as much as they like chocolate almond. You can buy it from any store, but you can also prepare your own chocolate treat. If cooked properly, home made almond chocolate has a crisp exterior and an ever so slightly chewy interior. By mixing the ingredients carefully, you can have a delicious chocolate flavor without being too sweet. You can use any type of almond you like. However, they must be toasted. If you like your treat to be crispier, you can increase the amount of raw almond instead of using almond extract (it is more recommended to use almond pieces or whole almonds, as the almond extract can have chemicals added). You can play around with the ratio between chocolate and almond until you reach the desired taste. If the ingredient's mixture is to dry, you can increase the amount of water to make it more mixable. Here is a recipe you can start from when making your own chocolate almond cookies. What you need are the following: ¾ cup of flour, ¼ cup of cocoa powder, ½ cup of baking soda and a teaspoon of baking powder. You can add more almonds, but the standard recipe included 1/3 cup of chopped toasted almonds. If you want to, you can also add half of cup of chocolate chips. Besides these, you will also need 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup sugar, 1/3 cup of maple syrup, one teaspoon of vanilla and 1/4 cup canola oil. Before cooking the mixture, preheat the oven. Mix together the together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and baking powder. Add the almonds, the chocolate chips and the salt. In a separate bowl mix all the wet ingredients, including the sugar. Combine both the wet and the dry mixture and keep stirring until just combined. Do not worry if at this point the mixture is a bit thick. Now cut the dough into small ball shapes and then flatten them. Bake the cookies for about 11 minutes and then let them cool down. Once they are cooled, you will have a delicious treat to serve your friends and family. |
