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Boston got whacked with another 6"-8" of snow today, and one of my clients is severely late with some necessary feedback, so it was a pretty quiet day while I did a little bit of work and a whole lot of shoveling. After I finished up all the day's critical tasks, I figured I'd try the recipe for chocolate hazelnut cookies that Tasteologie posted today. Cold days are perfect for baking.
They're delicious, as one might expect from that ingredient list, but I'd make two adjustments to the recipe as written. First of all, there's a little too much salt. I thought a teaspoon sounded like a lot, and it was in fact enough for me to taste a hint of salt in the baked cookie. I'd knock it down to 3/4 tsp. or even 1/2 tsp.; enough to get the other flavors to pop without the salt revealing itself.
The other issue is that the cookie dough is quite thick when finished, thick enough that it was more efficient to knead in the hazelnut bits by hand after my mixer failed to incorporate everything. (And I have a KitchenAid, so this is not mixer failure.) This worked out fine anyway, because once my hands were covered with dough (which isn't terribly sticky, so it was easy to work with), I just rolled it into balls by hand rather than scooping out portions.
Makes about two and a half dozen cookies, which I don't expect to last very long.
They're delicious, as one might expect from that ingredient list, but I'd make two adjustments to the recipe as written. First of all, there's a little too much salt. I thought a teaspoon sounded like a lot, and it was in fact enough for me to taste a hint of salt in the baked cookie. I'd knock it down to 3/4 tsp. or even 1/2 tsp.; enough to get the other flavors to pop without the salt revealing itself.
The other issue is that the cookie dough is quite thick when finished, thick enough that it was more efficient to knead in the hazelnut bits by hand after my mixer failed to incorporate everything. (And I have a KitchenAid, so this is not mixer failure.) This worked out fine anyway, because once my hands were covered with dough (which isn't terribly sticky, so it was easy to work with), I just rolled it into balls by hand rather than scooping out portions.
Makes about two and a half dozen cookies, which I don't expect to last very long.