Hi guys, I'm Laura Vitale and on this episode of Laura in the Kitchen I want to show you
what I call my Mexican Chocolate Snickerdoodles.
Basically chocolate snicker doodles that are just kissed slightly by a little bit of heat
in the form of cayenne pepper, but as we all know a classic sort of Mexican chocolate combination
is a little bit of something spicy with some sort of chili powder, chocolate and cinnamon,
so that's why I'm calling these that, these are so good, a great way to kick off sort
of like the holiday baking season in terms of cookies with this recipe because these
are just phenomenal and so easy, I'm just going to make them in a bowl with a whisk
and a spatula and they're amazing.
I've got my oven pre-heated to 350F.
I've got some butter here, softened butter, I just sort of soften it a little bit more
with my spatula and then to it I'm going to add some granulated sugar.
Now, I'm only making half of a full batch because it makes a lot of cookies and to be
quite frank, if they are here then they will get eaten - all of them.
So this is going to be perfect because we will have enough on hand to indulge throughout
the week, but not so many that we overindulge throughout the week!
If that makes any sense.
Just mix together the two, just like so, and then I'm going to add and egg and a good splash
of vanilla, if you're using homemade vanilla, make sure you give it a nice shake because
the seeds settle to the bottom of the jar.
Give that a stir around, mix mix mix.
Lovely, and then for dry ingredients, what I have got is all purpose flour, baking soda,
salt, cocoa powder, and some cayenne pepper.
Now when I say cayenne pepper, please don't be turned off by thinking that this is going
to be really spicy and just like weird, it's not.
Basically the cayenne pepper is a little tickle and it almost awakens the chocolate and that's
what makes these so good.
It makes the chocolate really intense.
Phenomenal.
So what I'm going to do now, I just switched to my spatula.
And I'm going to mix these together, you can see what I do here I kinda like press it in
- the butter and the egg, until they're all combined.
Just mix until the flour is all combined is what I meant.
Perfect.
So, let me show you what I've got here, I've got some cinnamon sugar, I've just got some
sugar and a little bit of cinnamon mixed together and I've got a baking sheet with some parchment
paper ready, and I also have my handy dandy ice cream scoop, and what you do is you just
take your dough, you drop it in there, and you roll that around in the cinnamon sugar
like so.
And you place them on your baking sheet and you just make sure you leave some space in
between and I'm just going to go ahead and continue on.
Alright these are rolled out and ready to go, I'm going to save a little bit more of
the dough for probably tomorrow or a little bit later on to make fresh ones.
I'm going to pop these into my 350F degree oven for a bout 15 minutes and I'll show you
what they look like when they're done.
My cookies were in the oven for 15 minutes exactly, I took them out I let them cool completely
on a wire rack and I am just like, if you could just smell in here' you'd be so excited,
I mean look at the interior, look how gorgeous, it's nice and chewy on the inside, and it's
really nice and crispy on the outside from the sugar coating.
Mmm!
It's everything a good cookie should be and more.
Like I said, really crunchy outside, really chewy inside, perfect on every level, like
nothing else needs to be said.
Super good, super easy, super yummy.
Perfect for this time of year, just that little bit of kick in the back of your throat, makes
this thing really shine because it makes that chocolate really vibrant and rich.
LauraintheKitchen.com has got you set up for the recipe, I hope you've enjoyed spending
time with me and I'll see you next time.
Bye.