World peace cookies (chocolate sablé slice-and-bake cookies)
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Ingredients
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- all purpose flour
- cocoa
- ½ tsp baking soda
Sift the flour, cocoa and baking soda, then give them a last whisk to blend.
- unsalted butter
- fine sea salt
- white granulated sugar
- brown sugar
Mix the unsalted butter with the fine sea salt, granulated sugar, brown sugar and a little vanilla to a smooth but not fluffy mix.
Salt, butter and two sugars
- vanilla
Add the flour all at once, covering the bowl, and mix until the dough holds together.
A French sablé at heart
- bar chocolate
Add the chopped bar chocolate and pulse briefly to work it in; pull the dough together by hand.
Adding chopped bar chocolate
Divide in half and roll each half into a log about 8 to 9 inches long.
Tighten each log in parchment by pulling the under-paper while pushing a straight edge against the log.
Chill in the refrigerator, wrapped in the parchment, until firm.
Bake at 325 for 12 minutes; they will not feel done and set on the cooling rack.