How To Make Chili Chocolate Cookies
The addition of chili to these chocolate cookies lends it a truly unique depth of flavor that you’ll be hard-pressed to find elsewhere.
Serves:
Ingredients
- ½cupdried currants
- 2tbspcoffee flavored liqueur,(such as kahlua®)
- 4ozunsweetened chocolate
- 2ozbittersweet chocolate
- 3tbspunsalted butter
- ½cupall purpose flour
- ½tspfreshly ground black pepper
- ¼tspbaking powder
- ¼tspsalt
- ⅛tspground cinnamon
- ⅛tspcayenne pepper
- ¾cupsugar
- 2eggs
- 2tspvanilla extract
- 1cupdark chocolate chips
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
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Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
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Heat currants and coffee liqueur in a saucepan over low heat for about 2 minutes until it begins to simmer. Remove from heat and set aside.
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Combine unsweetened chocolate, bittersweet chocolate, and butter in bowl. Place bowl on top of a saucepan filled with 1-inch of water set over low heat. Stir chocolate mixture occasionally until melted. Remove from heat and set aside.
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Mix flour, black pepper, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and cayenne pepper in large bowl and set aside.
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Whisk sugar and eggs in a small bowl for about 5 minutes until light, fluffy, and pale yellow. Slowly whisk in vanilla and melted chocolate mixture.
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Fold flour mixture into sugar and chocolate mixture until combined.
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Stir in dark chocolate chips and liqueur-soaked currants.
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Drop spoonfuls of cookie dough 2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheets.
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Bake in the preheated oven for about 12 minutes until cookies are almost set.
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Remove from the oven and leave on baking sheets to cool.
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Transfer to cooling rack and allow to finish cooling for 5 minutes.
Nutrition
- Calories: 306.24kcal
- Fat: 16.47g
- Saturated Fat: 9.67g
- Trans Fat: 0.12g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 4.95g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.67g
- Carbohydrates: 35.20g
- Fiber: 4.09g
- Sugar: 24.06g
- Protein: 4.46g
- Cholesterol: 34.94mg
- Sodium: 73.43mg
- Calcium: 40.98mg
- Potassium: 277.90mg
- Iron: 4.19mg
- Vitamin A: 36.71µg
- Vitamin C: 0.30mg
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