Spiced chocolate cookies

Hey guys!

Have you been enjoying the first week of december?

I am..:)

On saturday I made these lovely cookies. I only had two eggs left and was too lazy to go buy some, so I searched for a recipe with one or two eggs.

I ended up choosing a normal chocolate cookie recipe and changing it up to be more christmas-y...

It`s simple, fast , you don`t need a lot of ingridients BUT they are extremely delicious nonetheless.

There you go...

You need:

110g butter at room temperature

130g brown sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

150g (spelt) flour

30g cocoa powder

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp "Lebkuchengewürz", or just (combined) a tsp of ginger, cinnamon, cloves and cardamom

And about 100-150g dark chocolate and a little piece of butter for the frosting.

Cream butter and sugar together. Add the egg. Stir in the cocoapowder, spices, bakingpowder and flour.

Mix until you have a smooth batter.

Now just grab a teaspoon and spoon the batter on a sheet, lined with baking paper. 

Like this:

Now preheat your oven to 160°C and bake them for about 14 minutes or until they look like this:

While they cool down a bit, you can prepare the frosting. Melt your chocolate and add a tiny bit of butter. Stir until smooth.

Then just spread it on the cookies. I like it to look rustic, and not perfect :).

I topped mine with some purple sprinkles...because it`s christmas time and it should be sparkly!

Store in a beautiful christmas cookie container...

Enjoy! I`m gonna make them again, tomorrow...

Everyone really liked them...I think the frosting makes them even better, because it stays smooth. So when you eat it you have a smooth, chocolaty frosting and a crispy, spiced cookie...mmmmmh.

Have a nice evening, everybody!

Love,

Sara

Make your own bread!!!

Baking bread is a really sensual, satisfying thing.

You throw together flour, yeast, salt and water, knead with all you`ve got, wait an hour, knead some more, put it in your oven and 45 minutes later you got this beauty....

Gorgeous, no?

This is how you do it:

625g flour

(I just used some left overs I had.., which was:

325g wholemeal spelt flour

some spelt flour

and some all purpose flour)

1 teaspoon salt

one package dry yeast (about 7g)

5 dl water

Now, put flour and salt in a big bowl and make a little crater in the middle.

Then take the yeast and put it in the crater, with some water. With a wooden spoon stir just a little bit, so that the yeast/water is covered with flour.

Wait 10 minutes, what you just did is called a "pre-dough".

Then you stir until it`s mixed together, take it out on a floured surface and knead until you got a smooth ball of dough..

When you`re happy with it, put it back in your bowl and let it raise for like an hour, until it`s doubled its size.

Now, take it out of the bowl and knead again. At least 5 minutes or until your hands hurt...

Preheat your oven to 220°C.

Form your bread into a nice loaf, put it on a parchment lined baking sheet and cut it in 3-4 times.

 At last, dust it with some left over flour...That gives it a nice, professional look.

 Bake for around 45 minutes,

let cool on a baking rack and try to stop yourself from eating it right away!

Now, be proud of yourself!!!

Experiment with bread baking, it`s so easy, cheap and awesome!

Love,

Sara Tatanka