On the 10th Day of Giving: Here’s today’s great gift idea to help you express your best wishes for the food lover in your life!
Spice up someone’s life with a selection of high end spices for which they might not normally splurge—like pure vanilla bean, or coffee flavoring, or a nice sea salt assortment. Combine it with a recipe like this one for Chocolate Sea Salt Cookies.
Ingredients:
1 cup flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
12 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
3/4 cup unsalted butter
3/4 cup dark Muscovado sugar
1/4 cup Caster sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon Madagascar vanilla
1 teaspoon rum or rum flavoring
Fleur de sel sea salt
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Sift dry ingredients together
- Melt 4 ounces of the chocolate
- Cream butter and sugars together
- Add egg, then flavorings and melted chocolate
- Add flour and rest of chopped chocolate
- Chill
- Scoop spoonsful onto parchment paper and flatten slightly
- Sprinkle on just a touch of sea salt and bake for 10 minutes
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