Sun Cat Sweets is a micro-bakery in Athens that sells pastry containers, that are curated containers of various desserts. The choices are sometimes impressed by seasonal tendencies, similar to this rosemary chocolate chip cookie recipe for winter time.
Yields: 26 cookies (at 50-52 grams every)
Ingredients
260 grams flour
120 grams entire wheat flour
5 grams baking soda
3 grams baking powder
4 grams cinnamon
3 grams nutmeg
150 grams sugar
200 grams brown sugar
226 grams butter
10 grams contemporary rosemary, minced
4 grams salt
2 eggs
10 grams vanilla extract
240 grams chocolate chips
100 grams chocolate chips (for topping)
Flakey salt (elective, for topping)
Directions
Combine the flour, entire wheat flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg in a medium bowl. Whisk till totally blended then put aside.
In a stand mixer bowl fitted with a paddle attachment, mix the sugar, brown sugar, butter, rosemary and salt. Beat on medium-high velocity till lighter in colour and fluffy, about six minutes.
Scrape down the perimeters of the bowl with a rubber spatula, then beat once more for about one other two-ish minutes, or till each little bit of the butter appears mild and fluffy.
Add within the eggs and the vanilla extract, then beat on medium-low velocity till the eggs have damaged up and the dough is beginning to come collectively, about one minute. Raise the mixer velocity to medium-high once more till the dough resembles a thick mayo, about three to 5 minutes extra.
Scrape down with the spatula to verify all the things is mixed. Pay particular consideration to the underside of the bowl as a result of butter likes to cover there!
Add within the dry combination and the primary quantity of chocolate chips then pulse (this implies flip your mixer on and off to get all the things blended with out exploding in a plume of flour!) on low till mixed. Scrape down together with your spatula and ensure there are not any dry bits (once more, pay particular consideration to the underside of the bowl as a result of flour additionally likes to cover right here).
Lay plastic wrap on prime of the dough so it doesn’t dry out, and refrigerate for not less than 1 hour however in a single day works, too. Scoop the chilled dough into 50-52 grams parts utilizing a spoon or a scooper on a half-sheet tray lined with parchment.
Flatten the scoops between your palms barely in order that they seem like little hockey pucks. Do this with the remainder of your cookie dough.
Put a small pile of the reserved topping chocolate on prime of every cookie dough puck. Wrap the sheet tray with plastic wrap. Freeze till fully frozen. Then put the frozen dough pucks in an hermetic plastic bag. These can keep frozen for as much as three months.
When you’re able to bake, set your oven to 350 levels Fahrenheit. Set the dough pucks on two parchment lined half-sheet trays. Each tray ought to maintain 12 cookies in three rows of 4.
Bake for eight minutes then flip the sheet tray 180 levels (this helps the cookies bake evenly), and bake for one more seven minutes for quarter-hour whole.
Keep in thoughts that each oven is completely different so it could take longer or shorter than this. The cookies are accomplished when the perimeters are browned and barely agency and the middles are overrated. They would possibly even appear underdone however this makes for a chewier cookie!
If you need, sprinkle flakey salt on every cookie as quickly as they arrive out of the oven. Cool fully then retailer them at room temp for as much as three days in an hermetic container.
About Sun Cat Sweets
Sun Cat Sweets is a small business bakery run by proprietor Emily Shaw. She sells her pastry containers at Figment Kombucha, positioned at 1085 Baxter St. and at pop-up occasions in Athens. Orders might be made by her Instagram account, together with some particular orders.
