Chocolate Crack Cookies

Name: Chocolate Crack Cookies
Yield: Makes 900 g/2 lb
Ingredients: 525 g/1 lb 5 oz dark (bittersweet) or plain (semisweet) chocolate; 525 g/1 lb 5 oz dark (bittersweet) or plain (semisweet) chocolate; 90 g/4 oz/½ cup unsalted butter; 4 eggs; 150 g/5 oz/¾ cup caster (superfine) sugar, plus extra for rolling; 45 ml/3 tbsp rum; 185 g/6½ oz/1⅔ cups ground almonds; 130 g/4½ oz plain/generous 1 cup (all-purpose) flour; 130 g/4½ oz plain/generous 1 cup (all-purpose) flour; 7.5 ml/1½ tsp baking powder; 2.5 ml/½ tsp salt; icing (confectioners’) sugar, for rolling

Preparation info

Makes
900
g

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Home-made Sweets & Candies

By Claire Ptak

Published 2022

About

These little cookies are bites of gooey cake with an icing sugar shell. The ground almonds give the flavour more depth, and the rum packs a punch to make these a truly decadent treat. They are great as a gift or as a grown-up snack. The name is given to them because of their cracked appearance, which is caused by baking them with the icing sugar coating, which cracks as the cookie bakes.

Ingredients

Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Energy 5984kcal/25072kJ; Protein 109g; Carbohydrate 607g, of which sugars 496g; Fat 352g, of which saturates 153g; Cholesterol 1166mg; Calcium 1040mg; Fibre 29g; Sodium 2111mg