Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Chocolate Softies

Ingredients

3 oz 80g Semi sweet chocolate
1 Cup 250ml butter
2 Cups 500ml granulated sugar
2 eggs
1/4 tsp Pinch Salt
3 3/4 cups 930ml Flour / All purpose
2 tbsp 30ml cocoa powder
1 tbsp 15ml baking powder
3/4 cup 180ml milk
1 tsp 5ml vanilla extract

Instructions

Melt the chocolate in a double boiler. Cream the butter, then beat in the sugar and eggs.
Sift the salt, flour, cocao and baking powder.
Fold this into the cream mixture while alternating with milk.
Add vanilla extract (essance) and refrigerate for around 4 hours.
Roll mixture and cut into rounds. Bake in a preheated oven (400 degrees farenheit or 200 degrees celcius) for around 12 minutes.
Once done, allow to cool.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

When do you add the melted chocolate? My recipe book also omitted this step... I feel like it's a secret nobody wants to share.