Snowcaps

Name: Snowcaps
Yield: Makes about 15–18
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 100 g (3½ oz) high-quality semi-sweet chocolate (70% cocoa); 50 g (1¾ oz) icing sugar (confectioner’s sugar); Scraped out seeds of 1 vanilla pod; 1 tsp cinnamon; 2 eggs; 40 g (1½ oz) butter; 120 g (4¼ oz) flour; 60 g (2¼ oz) caster (superfine) sugar; 1 heaped tbsp cocoa powder; 1 pinch salt; ½ tsp cream of tartar powder

Preparation info

Makes about
15–18

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

New York Christmas

By Lisa Nieschlag and Lars Wentrup

Published 2017

About

These chocolate cookies with their dusting of white icing sugar bring the image of snow-covered mountains to mind, which is where their romantic name comes from.

Ingredients

100 g (3½ oz) high-quality semi-sweet chocolate (70% cocoa)
40 g (

Americas
United States
New York
Baking
Cookies
Christmas
Vegetarian

Method

Coarsely chop the chocolate. Combine in a bowl with the butter and melt over a double boiler. Set aside and leave to cool.

Whisk the eggs and sugar until foamy. Combine the flour, cocoa powder, cream of tartar powder, cinnamon and salt in another bowl. Stir the cooled, liquid chocolate mass into the egg mass, then fold in the dry ingredients and scraped out vanilla seeds. Cover the bowl