Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolatey cookie dough (that has cocoa added to it), with lots of chocolate chips and pecans.
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Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies:
Equipment: No special equipment is needed.
Recipe: 4 Large Cookies (multiply recipe as needed)
Cookie Dough:
Ingredient | Amount (g / units) |
Softened Unsalted Butter (Room Temperature) | 56g |
White Granulated Sugar | 56g |
Salt | 1/8 tsp |
Eggs | 30g |
All Purpose Flour | 75g |
Dutch Processed Cocoa Powder | 11g |
Baking Powder | 1/2 tsp |
Dark Chocolate Chips (55-60%) | 48g |
Pecans (medium sized chopped) | 20g |
Preparation instructions:
- In a medium sized bowl, using an electric handheld mixer, cream butter, sugar and salt on medium speed for 2-3 minutes.
- Add the eggs in 2-3 parts, mixing on medium speed, and scraping the bowl occasionally with a spatula to ensure even mixing.
- Sift the flour, cocoa and baking powder over the butter mixture.
- Using a spatula, fold with cutting like motions, until 70% mixed and add the inclusions (dark chocolate chips and pecans). Fully combine with a spatula.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate the dough for 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 180C (fan mode off), placing a baking rack at the middle shelf of the oven.
- Divide the dough into 72g portions, roll them into balls and place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, evenly spaced.
- Top the cookies with pecans and chocolate chunks and press them into the dough.
- Lower the temperature to 170C (fan mode off) and bake for 20 minutes. Transfer the baking sheet onto a cooling rack for 15-20 minutes. After that, the cookies can be transferred directly to a cooling rack to cool down completely.