2009_06060040Not 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

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F / 180 C Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  2. 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.
  3. Transfer mixture to a large bowl. Add butter, vanilla, baking powder, baking soda, salt and egg.
  4. Use an electric mixer to beat until smooth, scraping down the bowl, once during mixing, about 2 minutes.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. The cookies will be very soft. Let them cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheet, then transfer to a rack to cool completely.