Chocolate and almond cookies

These cookies were originally a variation of someones I made some time ago (the chocolate and walnut cookies). The recipe is also for chocolate and walnut cookies, only that it comes from a different cookbook. This recipe is from Chocolate Basics: 80 Recipes Step-by-step (in spanish Recetas básicas de chocolate). I simply LOVE this book! It's got step by step photographs and explanations, which makes the recipes look less scary :-) Indeed, I find myself willing to attemp some layered cakes, which is something I usually don't dare to even give a second glare.

I made these cookies for my boyfriend's birthday, as one of his presents, because he loves the cookies this way, chewy rather than crunchy (I prefer them the other way ^^U). These cookies taste really good and are super easy to make, just as they seem in my book!

Ingredients:

200g white sugar
100g butter
150g chocolate with almonds
220g all-purpose flour
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 salt

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 170ºC.
2. In a saucepan, melt butter and let it warm.
3. Add the sugar and the salt to the butter mix until well combined.
4. Mix in the egg and then the vanilla extract until well combined.
5. In a bowl, mix the flour and the baking powder and the add the flour to the butter.
6. Chop the chocolate and add it to the dough.
7. Let the dough rest in the fridge for 15 minutes.
8. Take a small amount of cookie dough onto your palm and roll into a ball.
9. Put the balls onto a baking tray and press them slightly.
10. Bake in the preheated oven for 10-15 minutes until the borders brown.
11. Take the cookies out from the oven and let them cool completely in the tray before transfering them to a wire rack.