Chocolate cookies with filling

Description

I want to share another variation is very easy to prepare cookies with filling, which is perfect for Christmas, and any holiday table. The dough is a classic, but with fillers it is possible to dream infinitely, transforming banal biscuits in a gourmet dessert. For Christmas I chose the homemade lemon jam, dark chocolate glaze "Dr. Oetker" and "winter" silvery-white grit in the tone of the balls on the tree. For the dough and forming the cookies away from power for 20 minutes, so recipe helps when a lot of cooking or an urgent need to figure out something tasty. Life hack for parents: give the children prepared in advance for the cookies, different fillings, toppings and decorations, and safely go to play chefs. Will not only delicious, but also fun! And you just have time to drink a glass or two of champagne new year.

Ingredients

Butter

250 g
Sugar

200 g
Chicken egg

1 piece
Flour

280 g
Cocoa powder

70 g
Salt

0.5 tsp
Leavening agent

1 tsp
Vanilla sugar

1 pack
Flavor
Alcohol
Glaze

1 pack
Topping pastry
Jam

Cooking

Ingredients. To connect with the churning, the butter and egg should be at room temperature - remove them from the refrigerator an hour and a half. All the spoons mentioned in the recipe, measuring.

Beat butter with a mixer with sugar, vanilla sugar and salt. I'm not particularly zealous in the test grains of sugar remain.

Add the egg, rum essence (I poured the entire vial to the aroma of rum is not lost in cocoa). Again beat with a mixer.

Add the flour, baking powder and cocoa. Knead with a mixer or spoon. Look at the consistency: it's okay to roll into balls, which are ideally not crumble when pressed. If the dough is too crumbly, add 2-3 tablespoons of liquid - water, milk, cream, coffee. Liquid, add spoon and then knead the dough, so as not to overdo it. I usually add the liquid (or together with it) some sort of flavored alcohol - a couple of spoonfuls of the chocolate liquor or a mixture of water and brandy. But it's your choice.

Once the dough becomes homogeneous, measured spoon desired amount to hands and roll the ball. I love the pretty large cookies, so they could put more toppings, and I have of this portion of the test usually makes 24 cookies - just two pans.

Coat the baking pan with baking parchment and spread the balls. Leave between them a distance of 4-5 cm. One standard baking tray fits 12 cookies.

Replusive each ball center by any suitable object, forming a recess. I like to use a tablespoon measuring spoon - so a big round hollow. If the cookies crack, they can be corrected with your fingers. If much crack to add to the dough a little fluid. I, on the contrary, cracks like - give liver texture and comfort.

Shaped cookies put in the fridge for 30-45 minutes. After cooling, sent in a preheated 190 degree oven and bake for about 10-12 minutes. The seventh-eighth minute to check out the process, and if the dimple on the cookies smoothed out again flatten them with a spoon.

Ready cookies cool and fill with jam or any other filling - about a teaspoon in each. The number depends on how shaped cookies. My lemon marmalade is lemon, ground in a meat grinder with sugar and cooked for one and a half hours. Separately it is necessary to remove the zest (if jam is procured in large quantities, it is also minced), clean off the bitter white peel and remove pits.

For decoration I used some ready chocolate glaze, so as not to mess with the chocolate. Only added a tablespoon of chocolate liqueur. Recipe for homemade frosting: 50 to 50 grams of butter and chocolate, or 100 grams. chocolate and 4-5 tablespoons of whipping cream to melt in the microwave and mix well. The glaze may be not very thick - still it's not going anywhere. Cover the jam with a thin layer of glaze. If you want the glaze thicker - it is better to take two servings, one may not be enough.

And finally, the topping! I have it pretty small, and the balls don't drown, you have to give the glaze the cookies with a little stick. Topping I always try to take it Dr. Oetker decor of this brand never breaks, does not stain the base and arms. With cheap posypushek there were times when the fingers, the frosting started to Shine stains of all colors. Decorated cookies are sent in the cold for the final solidification of the glaze.

The main drawback of this cookie to the holiday table usually comes good if half portions. Specifically, this cookie didn't even wait until the glaze.

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