120 Min
Chocolate Chile Cookie
Some of the best recipes happen by accident. One morning while preparing for Sunday brunch service at Indika, our ingenious pastry chef Michael Michel, upon discovering that we were out of toasted walnuts for the chocolate oatmeal cookies, substituted the spiced walnuts we used to make for a dinner appetizer. These walnuts were coated in red chile powder, cinnamon, and salt. Our regular customers were so thrilled with these cookies that they demanded we never go back to the plain one. And the chocolate chile cookie was born.
Almost ten years later, despite a multitude of other cookies, the chocolate chile remains the number-one-selling cookie at the Bake Lab. If using a mild chile powder, feel free to increase the amount. One of the best-kept professional secrets about cookie making is to freeze cookie dough balls and bake cookies straight from the freezer to oven. This simple hack can contain the “spread” of the cookie resulting in a moister cookie that keeps its shape.
Some of the best recipes happen by accident. One morning while preparing for Sunday brunch service at Indika, our ingenious pastry chef Michael Michel, upon discovering that we were out of toasted walnuts for the chocolate oatmeal cookies, substituted the spiced walnuts we used to make for a dinner appetizer. These walnuts were coated in red chile powder, cinnamon, and salt. Our regular customers were so thrilled with these cookies that they demanded we never go back to the plain one. And the chocolate chile cookie was born.
Almost ten years later, despite a multitude of other cookies, the chocolate chile remains the number-one-selling cookie at the Bake Lab. If using a mild chile powder, feel free to increase the amount. One of the best-kept professional secrets about cookie making is to freeze cookie dough balls and bake cookies straight from the freezer to oven. This simple hack can contain the “spread” of the cookie resulting in a moister cookie that keeps its shape.
120 minutes + freezing time
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