Salted Dark Chocolate Crisps: Make Ahead for Creative Cookie Exchange Recipe
Ingredients
- Cherry Pistachio Ice Box Cookies from Noshing With The Nolands
- Chai Spice Girls from All That’s Left Are The Crumbs
- Scottish Shortbread from Made With Love
- Chocolate Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies from Food Lust People Love
- Chocolate Mint Cookies from At Home With Rebecka
- Neapolitan Striped Crisps from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
- Coffee? Tea? from Ninja Baking
- Christmas Linzer Cookies from It’s Yummi!
- Chewy Pumpkin Ginger Cookies from If I Ever Owned A Bakery
- Best Ever Sugar Cookies from Liv Life
- Salted Dark Chocolate Crisps from The Spiced Life
- Buckeye Cookies from Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt
- Salted Dark Chocolate Crisps
- Recipe type: Dessert
- Cuisine: make ahead cookies
- 2 cups (252 g) AP flour
- ½ cup (60 g) cake flour
- ⅔ cup (60 g) Dutched cocoa powder (I used Valrhona)
- 1 t baking soda
- ½ t fine sea salt
- 1½ cups (340 g) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 cups (400 g) sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- 2 t vanilla
- ⅔ cup miniature chocolate chips (I used Ghiradelli)
- good quality coarse grey sea salt for sprinkling
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