Chocoholics Heaven

So the other day I had a bit of a chocolate craving. You'll find a lot of people tend to get these when they're sad or what not. Me, I'm a true chocoholic! I don't need a reason, I just need chocolate. Besides butter, chocolate is one of the most amazing foods I can think of. It something that goes with so many things and has the ability to bring a smile to our face, and some would even say it makes us feel like we're in love. I don't really care what it is, all I know is chocolate is AMAZING and seems to inspire so many creative recipes. One of my favourite combinations is chocolate and hazelnuts, hence why I made the following. The following recipe is from here. You'll probably notice that I use this site a lot and that would be because it's fast becoming one of my favourite sites. This recipe I have made a few alterations to, so I guess just choose whichever takes your fancy.

Ingredients:
handful of hazelnuts
1/2 cup cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup cocoa
1/4 teaspoon salt
400grams dark chocolate
1/4 cup unsalted butter
1 3/4 cups white sugar
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
200grams milk chocolate
220grams white chocolate

Step 1: Chop the hazelnuts and the milk and white chocolate, place in a bowl to the side.

Step 2: Melt the dark chocolate and butter in a glass bowl over a saucepan of simmering water, stirring until smooth. Remove from heat and set aside.


Melting the chocolate. Mmmm... Chocolate *drool*



Step 3: Beat the sugar and the eggs, with an electric mixer, until thick and yellow. (Takes approx 3-5mins). Beat in the melted chocolate mixture and vanilla extract.

The egg and sugar mixture after I added the chocolate.

Step 4: Fold in the sifted dry ingredients to the chocolate mixture, mixing until incorporated. Stir in the chopped chocolate and hazelnuts.

Without the hazelnuts and chopped chocolate.

Step 5: Cover with glad wrap and refrigerate for about 30minutes.

All glad-wrapped up and ready to go in the fridge.

Step 6: Preheat the oven to 180degrees Celcius and line some cookie trays.

Step 7: Roll the batter into balls and place onto the lined cookie trays at evenly spaced intervals. With moist fingers press the batter down.

Step 8: Bake the cookies for 12-14minutes, until the tops of the cookies become dry and cracked but are not shiny. Becareful not to overbake.

Step 9: Remove from the oven and leave to cool on a wire rack. Once cooled, they are now ready to serve. :)


I took them into uni today and by the end of the day they were gone.