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    Oh My Veggies » Holiday Recipes » Christmas Recipes

    Korova Chocolate Cookies

    Published: Jan 17, 2011 · by Nicole · Updated: Aug 22, 2023 · This post may contain affiliate links.

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    Pierre Herme Korova Cookies recipe

    One of the wonderful cookbooks I received as a gift for Christmas was Dorie Greenspan's Paris Sweets: Great Desserts From the City's Best Pastry Shops. Prior to blogging, I have to admit, I'd never heard of Dorie Greenspan.

    Dorie has been called "a culinary guru" by New York times and is an award winning author who has written 9 cookbooks including Paris Sweets, Baking: From My Home to Yours, Baking with Julia: Savor the Joys of Baking with America's Best Bakers and, more recently, Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours.

    Paris Sweets is a beautiful collection of recipes from the based on Dorie's time in Paris visiting the best pastry shops who she somehow managed to convince to part with some of their prized recipes for the book.

    One of the things I love about the book is the detailed instructions, information on how long each item can be kept for once cooked, freezing instructions and gorgeous illustrations.

    Detailed instructions are so important in cookbooks and sometimes, no matter how beautiful the book is, I sometimes find the instructions rushed or lacking, which is the last thing you want when you are part way through a complicated recipe.

    Dorie Greenspans Korovoa Cookie recipe
    The red liquid in the cup, is T2's delicious Turkish Cherry Tea available at http://t2tea.com

    The first recipe I decided to cook from Paris Sweets was Korova Cookies/Sablés Korova which is a recipe adapted from Pierre Hermé.

    These delicious double chocolate cookies were so easy to make, and I love that the cookie dough can be made in advance and frozen until you need it knowing that your are only 12 minutes away from a delicious homemade double chocolate cookie.  Perfect for when unexpected guests arrive.

    There are so many wonderful recipes in Paris Sweets I can see it will become my new favourite cookbook, along with Donna Hay's Seasons.  What is your current favourite cookbook?

    Recipe

    Korova Chocolate Cookies (World Peace Cookies)

    From Paris Sweets: Great Desserts From the City's Best Pastry Shops by Dorie Greenspan
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    Total Time: 30 minutes minutes
    Course: Dessert
    Cuisine: Dessert
    Keyword: chocolate cookie recipe, Delicious Everyday, Korova Chocolate Cookies
    Servings: 24 cookies
    Calories: 135kcal
    Author: Oh My Veggies

    Ingredients

    • 175 g of plain flour
    • 3 og of Dutch-processed cocoa powder
    • ½ teaspoon of baking soda
    • 150 grams of unsalted butter at room temperature
    • 120 g of brown sugar
    • 50 g of sugar
    • ½ teaspoon of fluer de sel I used Maldon as I had run out of fluer de sel
    • 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
    • 150 g of bittersweet chocolate chopped into small bits
    US Customary - Metric

    Instructions

    • Put the butter in the bowl of an electric mixer with a paddle attachment fitted and beat on a medium speed until the butter is creamy.
    • Add the brown and white sugars, salt and vanilla extract and beat for a couple of minutes.
    • Reduce the mixer to a low speed and sift in the flour, cocoa and baking soda and beat until combined. Note the mixture will look crumbly, but this is normal.
    • Turn the mixture our onto some cling film and squeeze the dough into a ball and then divide into tow. Form each ball into a log and wrap up in cling film and put in the fridge to chill for at least 2 hours.
    • Preheat the oven for 165 degrees celsius or 325 farenheit and move an oven rack to the center of the oven.
    • With a sharp knife slice the logs into rounds about 1.5cm or ½ an inch thick. If the cookies break when sliced just squash them back together again. Place each cookie onto a non-stick baking tray or baking tray lined with baking paper.
    • Bake each cookie for 12 minutes. Note that the cookies will not look cooked, but they will firm when they cool.

    Notes

    The cookies can be kept for up to 3 days at room temperature or frozen for up to a month. The dough can be frozen, no need to defrost before baking, however add 1 minute to the baking time.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 135kcalCarbohydrates: 15gProtein: 1gFat: 7gSaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 13mgSodium: 118mgPotassium: 53mgSugar: 9gVitamin A: 160IUCalcium: 11mgIron: 0.8mg
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    1. Lisa says

      November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

      Those cookies look fantastically chocolatey and your pictures are just a joy to look at. I have a dessert linky going on at my blog and I'd like to invite you to stop by and link this up. http://sweet-as-sugar-cookies.blogspot.com/2011/0...

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    2. @KitchAdventures says

      November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

      Beautiful photos! I love the idea of freezing cookie dough so it's always possible to have fresh cookies in minutes. Since I got a new fridge with a well lit and organized freezer, I've been more into freezing things to use later. I think my freezer needs to be stocked with some good cookie dough now! My recent post Chocolate Raspberry Smoothie

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      • delicieux says

        November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

        Your freezer definitely does need to be stocked with cookie dough! It's so handy when unexpected guests arrive....which happened to me this afternoon. 🙂

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    3. PPoppy says

      November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

      5 stars
      They are just out of the oven. They are chewy and perfect ! They don't look like yours actualy, they have the perfect cookie shape ! But I followed all your recipe, I'll make a post soon ! Cheers 🙂

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      • delicieux says

        November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

        They are probably my favourite cookie ever. I'll be interested to see what you think of them. 🙂

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        • PPoppy says

          November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

          Actually they are like sablés, really good sablés but still sablés. Usually when I say cookie, I'm looking for a chewy sensation, they bend when you break them in half ! Here they are dryer (event though I baked them 10 minutes instead of 12, and really did not look baked 😉 This might be the lack of an egg, that makes them sablés. I wonder how they would be with an egg 😀 But for now, these are my favourite 100%chocolate I've made 🙂 (on 3 recipes)

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