Salted Dark Chocolate Flourless Cookies
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I’m not going to lie, I made these cookies entirely out of curiousity. King Arthur Flour, which gives recipes that usually involve, you know, flour, had a picture of the best dark chocolate cookies and said that they were flourless.
The strange thing though, is that there is no starch in them. And no fat. They are not “healthy” cookies with quinoa flour and coconut oil. These ingredients are just flat out missing from the equation. They are, by far the weirdest cookies I’ve ever made. Egg whites, cocoa powder, icing sugar and vanilla. That’s about all folks.
Fudgey isn’t quite the right word for them even though that’s how King Arthur descubes them, they get very crispy on the edges, almost they way you would excpect them to if there was corn starch in them, but the centers stay very soft. And, they don’t get stale. At least, I made them 3 days ago and the are still sitting on my counter on a plate without having been wrapped and they are still soft in the middle.
This is no small miracle friends.
So without further ado, here is a painfully simple recipe, for very strange, but very delicious cookies
- 2 1/4 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup cocoa powder, Dutch-process
- 3 large egg whites
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Fleur de Sel- a couple tsp for sprinkling on top
Preheat the oven to 350F
Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl
Spoon 1 tbsp sized blobs on to a piece of parchment or silpat. Sprinkle some fleur de sel on top.
Bake for about 7-9 minutes, until the top is set but still a bit soft if you touch them. Let cool for a couple of minutes on the pan, and then transfer them to a cooling rack. Enjoy! 