I’ve been playing around with transforming my favorite traditional snickerdoodle recipe into a cocoa snickerdoodle recipe. I’ve tried several recipes for chocolate snickerdoodles that I found online but the cookie just didn’t have that same fluffy texture of my original recipe. So, I decided to take the recipe that I loved and transform it.
The first few tries were a bit of a nightmare because I decided to melt baking chocolate and make ganache like when making a chocolate cake. The dough ended up too wet and the cookies ended up spreading out onto the entire baking sheet. On my next try, I added more flour, which made the dough too tough. The cookies came out as hard as hockey pucks.
So, I ended up running out of baking chocolate and, honestly, I was too lazy to run to the store, so I grabbed the cocoa powder—a much wiser choice. So, I ended up swapping out ¾ cup of flour for ¾ cup of cocoa and it worked on the first try.
I hope you enjoy.
Ingredients
1 ½
cups sugar ½ cup stick butter
½ cup
shortening 2 large
eggs
2
cups all-purpose flour ¾ cup of
cocoa powder
2
teaspoons cream of tartar 1
teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon
salt
Place in separate bowl and set aside
¼ cup
sugar 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
Preheat Oven to 400° F
If using a convection oven that doesn’t automatically
convert the temperature, preheat to 375° F
1.
In
a medium bowl, sift together 2 cups all-purpose flour, 2 teaspoons cream of
tartar, 1 teaspoon baking soda, ¼ teaspoon salt. Add ¾ cup of cocoa powder and
whisk until incorporated.
2.
In
a large bowl, mix 1 ½ cups sugar, ½ cup shortening, 2 large eggs, ½ cup stick butter. Stir in dry ingredients.
3.
Shape
dough into 1 ¼ inch balls. Roll balls in cinnamon-sugar mixture. Place 2 inches
apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
4.
Bake
8 to 10 minutes or until set. Remove from cookie sheet. Cool on wire rack.
Do
you enjoy playing around with recipes?
What’s
your favorite cookie recipe?
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