Chocolate chip cookies with two secret ingredients
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 10/15 cookies
Ingredients
  • 30 g of raisins
  • 1 tsp of rum *
  • 1 tsp + 1 tbsp of water
  • 50 g of butter
  • 1 egg
  • 50 g of caster or brown sugar
  • 70 g of flour
  • ¼ tbsp of vanilla extract
  • A sprinkle of lemon zest
  • 50 g of dark chocolate
Preparation
  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C
  2. Put the raisins in a bowl with the rum and the water and let it sit for at least 15 minutes.
  3. Melt the butter, put it in a bowl and whisk it with the egg and the sugar until the batter will be whitish and frothy.
  4. Add the flour passing it through a sieve, the vanilla extract and the lemon zest and mix well.
  5. Chop the dark chocolate and add it to the batter together with the soaked raisins with their water.
  6. Cover a baking sheet with baking paper and drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls well apart from each other onto baking sheet. **
  7. Bake for 10 minutes.
  8. Serve with a glass of cold milk!
Notes
* If you want to skip the liquor, substitute it with another tablespoon of water.
** As these cookies spread out very much, make sure to leave abundant space between them and the sheet borders. If you sheet doesn’t fit all the dough, bake the cookies in two rounds.
Recipe by The Adagio Blog at https://adagioblog.com/chocolate-chip-cookies-with-two-secret-ingredients/