Friends and family will gobble up chocolate chip and dip applesauce cookies.
On this recipe, I exchange chocolate bits and chunks that I’ve chopped myself for usual chips—I identical to the wonder of discovering the ones just-a-bit-bigger bits and chunks alongside the best way. Additionally on this recipe let forged shortening and applesauce take where of butter to offer the cookies an added mouthwatering softness. You don’t need to dip those chocolate chips in chocolate as soon as baked, however why wouldn’t you?
The chocolate chip is a quintessential American cookie (first baked through Ruth Graves Winfield of Whitman, Massachusetts in 1939), however I feel it eats neatly anyplace on the planet.
Chocolate Chip and Dip Applesauce Cookies
Yield 24 cookies
Substances
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons unbleached all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- pinch of salt
- a large pinch of cinnamon and a pinch of nutmeg (not obligatory)
- ¼ cup forged vegetable shortening (butter flavored shortening is excellent)
- 6 tablespoons gentle brown sugar
- 1 huge egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup applesauce
- 1 bar (3 oz.) Tobler bittersweet chocolate, chop the chocolate your self (or ⅓ cup semisweet chocolate chips)
- ¼ cup or slightly much less coarsely chopped walnuts or pecans (not obligatory)
- For Dip: 1½ cups of grated or chopped semisweet chocolate
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 375°F and grease neatly 2 or 3 cookie sheets.
- Sift the flour, baking soda, and salt right into a small bowl (Upload the cinnamon and nutmeg in case you are the use of them and mix them in totally.) Put aside.
- Whip the shortening till gentle and fluffy. Sprinkle in regularly the sugar, beating regularly. Beat within the egg and vanilla.
- Exchange mixing within the dry elements and applesauce (do that through hand or with the mixer at low). Don’t overbeat. Stir within the chopped chocolate bits and chunks (or chips) and chopped nuts.
- Drop rounded teaspoons of batter and blend 3 inches aside onto the greased cookie sheets and bake for 10 to twelve mins.
- Permit cookies to set for three mins then switch to a cooking rack.
Notes
Serve heat or upload a chocolate coating to the ground of each and every cookie after the cookies have cooled.
Chocolate Dip1½ cups of grated or chopped semisweet chocolate must suffice to coat or glaze the bottoms of the cookies. Soften the chocolate in a heavy pan over low warmth—upload a dollop of butter to stay the chocolate from sizzling. You’ll be able to additionally soften the chocolate within the best of a double boiler over scorching water or in a microwave on top energy at 30 2nd durations. You’ll want to stir the melting chocolate so it does now not stick or scorch. Position the melted chocolate in a small paintings bowl then skim the ground of each and every cookie around the chocolate to coat then set each and every cookie the wrong way up till the chocolate coating units.
Lessons Bakery
