Chewy Mars Cookies
August 15, 2012
Ingredients
2 cups plain flour
3 tbsp cocoa powder
2/3 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup castor sugar
170g unsalted butter, soften at room temp
1 large egg
1 large egg yolk
1 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/4 baking soda
8 mini Mars or 2 1/2 of the regular bar
Instructions
1) Ensure the butter and eggs are at room temp. Don't let the butter be too soft though. Preheat oven to 170'c, line or lightly grease baking tray
2) Chop up the Mars into small pieces
3) Beat the butter with an electric mixer for about 1 minute, add in the sugars, continue beating until fluffy for about 2-3 minutes. Add in the eggs and vanilla essence, continue mixing for another 2 minutes until smooth
4) In a different bowl pour in the flour then take out 3 tbsp of it and replace with 3 tbsp of cocoa powder. Whisk together with the baking powder and salt.
5) Add in the chopped Mars and mix it in the flour mixture so that they are coated with flour. Take the Mars out, shake any excess flour back into the bowl and set aside. This is to make sure the mars don't sink to the bottom while baking
6) Then gradually pour the dry mixture into the wet mixture while continue mixing until it forms a cookie dough
7) Add and stir in the floured Mars pieces. It will get harder to stir at this point bc the Mars makes the dough stickier, but exert extra energy to spread the Mars evenly
8) Use an ice cream scoop or a tablespoon to scoop balls of dough onto a baking tray, then flatten them down with your fingers. Don't put too much on one tray as the cookies spread wide
9) Bake for 14 minutes, leave to cool on tray for 10 minutes then transfer to wire rack to cool completely
2 comments
Can I use the instant hot chocolate powder as a substitute if I don't have cocoa powder?
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't. Bc cocoa powder is made from unsweetened cocoa beans and hot chocolate powder is from powdered milk, sugar and powdered chocolate flavouring. The end result might be too sweet but not enough chocolatey flavour. :)
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