Chocolate Cookies ( Romany Creams)
"If equated, these are to South African children what Oreo Cookies are to American children, though they are not the same in taste. I never stick mine together to make 'sandwiches' but prefer to dip each cookie into melted chocolate and sprinkle on chocolate vermicilli."
photo by Chef floWer
- Ready In:
- 43mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
48
ingredients
- 125 g butter
- 200 ml sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 ml vanilla extract
- 375 ml flour
- 10 ml baking powder
- 1 pinch salt
- 30 ml cocoa powder
- 250 ml coconut
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TOPPING
- 125 ml chocolate chips
- chocolate sprinkles, for decoration (vermicelli)
directions
- Preheat oven 350°F.
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Beat eggs and vanilla and beat into butter mixture.
- Sift in dry ingredients, add coconut and mix well.
- Scoop 1 tsp mounds onto prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake for 13 minutes.
- Cool on wire rack.
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TOPPING:
- Melt chocolate in double boiler and dip in 1/2 of each cookie.
- Lay cookies on sheet of wax paper and sprinkle on vermicilli.
- Place in refrigerator just long enough for chocolate to harden.
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Delicious Cookies, only change I made was used egg substitute. I found it difficult was converting dried ingredients such as sugar, flour, baking powder, salt, etc. from mls into grams (I normally used mls to measure liquid ingredients). Once I converted these ingredients it was very easy to make. Little Miss (DD) helped with the chocolate sprinkles so we had lots of fun making these together. Thank you Bokenpop
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Bokenpop aka Mad
Milford, Delaware
I was born and raised in South Africa but now live in Delaware USA. Since I can remember I have been cooking! My first real cooking experience was when I was 7. I came home from school one afternoon and felt like French toast. My elder brother was home with his friends and did not want to make it for me, so I got a pan out, put it on the stove, turned the stove on to high. After that I could not remember what to do, but I knew that French toast involved bread so I put the bread in the hot pan without grease and poured milk over it! Oy vey... My brother's friend asked me what I was trying to make and I told him. He laughed and told me I was making it wrong but he also taught me how to make French toast the right way. I came home every day after that and made French toast. I felt so confident with the little bit of knowledge I had acquired that I soon started experimenting with other things. Nothing was going to stop me! The first full meal I ever made for my family was boiled rice and oven roasted chicken pieces with a steamed vegetable medley. I was 8 years old and my mom was in hospital. My dad was struggling to hold down an intensely busy job, keep the family going and be with my mom, so I thought I would help him. I don't think he believed that I had done it on my own. I remember telling him that I read in a cookery book how to make a roast chicken but I did not know what "a" rosemary was so I just put the chicken in the dish without it. Decades later with a myriad tried and tested recipes behind me - flops and failures included - I know my way around any food item and kitchen utensil, much to my family's delight!
