Not a world shattering event in itself you may think but it’s inspired me to post something up here after a long silence, which makes me feel all warm and goo-ey (a bit like these amazing bics). These are great for using up leftover marzipan and also dare I say, for anyone not massively into that neat marzipan thing (the chocolate helps!)
CHOCOLATE MARZIPAN COOKIES
Originally from Chef MariaJane at www.recipezaar.com but modified by me!
Ingredients
- 175g sugar
- 125g brown sugar
- 200g marzipan, cut into small chunks
- 175gl unsalted butter, softened
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp bicarb
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 large egg
- 450g plain flour
- 100g cocoa powder or 60g plus a few chunks of your fave choc bashed into pieces.
This makes enough for2 batches of 20+ biscuits, so you could freeze half or erm, be greedy!
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F / 180 C Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a food processor, combine both sugars and marzipan. Process until they resemble a fine sand, about 1 minute. Or cut into v small chunks and whisk up when other ingredients added.
- Transfer mixture to a large bowl. Add butter, vanilla, baking powder, baking soda, salt and egg.
- Use an electric mixer to beat until smooth, scraping down the bowl, once during mixing, about 2 minutes.
- Add flour and cocoa powder / choc pieces and mix until incorporated, scraping down once during mixing, about 1 minute. The dough should be very stiff. If too stiff add water tbsps at a time until mixture is workable.
- Baking in batches, drop 1 tablespoons balls of dough on prepared sheet, leaving about 2-inches around all sides. bake on the oven’s lower rack until cookies are flat and have a crackled surface, about 10 minutes.
- The cookies will be very soft. Let them cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheet, then transfer to a rack to cool completely.