Name: Chocolate Diamond Cookies * (Diamants Chocolat)
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 2 h
Yield: Makes 60
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: Scant ¼ cup (1¼ oz./35 g) cornstarch; 1¾ cups (8¼ oz./235 g) AP flour; 2 tbsp (15 g) unsweetened cocoa powder; 3 oz. (80 g) milk chocolate, chopped; 2 sticks (7¾ oz./220 g) cultured butter, 82% fat, diced; 1 pinch salt; ½ egg yolk (1¾ tsp/10 g); ¾ cup (3½ oz./100 g) confectioners’ sugar; 1 egg yolk (1½ tbsp/20 g); ½ cup (3½ oz./100 g) brown sugar

Preparation info

Makes
60

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
2 hr

Appears in

French Pastries and Desserts by Lenôtre

By Chefs at Lenôtre

Published 2021

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Ingredients

Cookie dough

3 oz. (80 g) milk chocolate, chopped
1¾ cups (8¼

Method

To prepare the cookie dough, melt the chocolate in a bowl over a saucepan of barely simmering water (bain-marie) until the temperature reaches 104°F (40°C), or in the microwave. Sift the flour, cornstarch, and cocoa powder into a bowl.
Beat together the butter, confectioners’ sugar, and salt in the stand mixer on low speed. Beat in the dry ingredi