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Real American cookies with chocolate drops and walnuts

Every country has its traditional recipes. And you would say that cookies are not that specific to a particular country. We know them here too. Yes, but our cookies are primarily dry and crunchy. And if we want to soften them a little, we combine them with jam or cream. However, we associate cookies that are crunchy on the surface and soft on the inside with chocolate pieces, nuts or dried fruit exclusively with America. The recipe is said to be attributed to a lady named Ruth Graves Wakefield, who owned an inn with her husband in Whitman, Massachusetts. In 1930, when she created classic cocoa cookies, she added pieces of chocolate to the dough instead of the cocoa powder used at that time. She planned for them to spread as they baked to create the frosting. But that didn't happen and she created a new type of cookie. This innovation became a specialty of their establishment and the cookies became very popular. A few years later, the Wakefields teamed up with the Nestlé company, which started producing small pieces of chocolate intended for the production of just these cookies. And when something is really good, such a delicacy spreads all over the world very quickly. Today, American cookies are baked all over the world.

Preparing the dough:

525 g plain flour
425 g Muscovado sugar (sugar rich in molasses)
300 g of butter
2 eggs
1 egg yolk
13 g of baking powder
7 g of salt
250 g of walnuts
225 g dark chocolate drops (at least 55%)
180 g of milk chocolate drops

Method:

Mix softened butter at room temperature with sugar and eggs. Sift flour with salt and baking powder. Combine everything and finally add chopped nuts and chocolate drops.

Divide the dough into three parts and roll each part into a 30 cm long cylinder. Wrap in aluminum foil or food foil and leave to harden in the fridge for at least three hours.

Then take them out of the fridge and cut each roll into 12 pieces (2.5cm thick slices).

Put the individual pieces on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Keep sufficient spacing, as it will increase in volume during baking.

Bake in a hot oven at 175 °C for approx. 12-15 minutes. It depends on your oven. Watch the cookies. They should have a golden color when baked, but they must remain soft and pliable inside.

Immediately after baking, remove from the hot baking sheet and place on a wire rack to cool.