Chocolate Honeycomb Cookies*

By RJamoralin

Episode: Depression Desserts
LEVEL: Easy
Recipe Courtesy Nadia G

Ingredients

• HONEYCOMB:
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup fine raw sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
• Fleur de sel, to taste
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup honey
• 1 tablespoon baking soda
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Details

Servings 12
Preparation time 55mins
Cooking time 75mins
Adapted from cookingchanneltv.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Throw the flour, cocoa powder and baking soda into a bowl and whisk until combined. Combine the raw sugar, vanilla extract and egg in a stand mixer and mix on high speed until smooth and thick, 3 minutes. Turn the speed down to low and slowly stream in the melted butter. Add in the dry ingredients and mix on low until fully incorporated.

Drop heaping tablespoons of dough 2 to 3 inches apart on the baking sheet, and bake 7 minutes. Cool on the baking sheets about 3 minutes, and then sprinkle with the Honeycomb while the cookies are still soft. Press the Honeycomb into the cookies and sprinkle with a pinch of fleur de sel.
Line a baking sheet with lightly buttered parchment paper.

Stir together the sugar and honey in a medium saucepan over medium heat until the sugar is dissolved. Cook the sugar, monitoring with a candy thermometer, until it reaches 300 degrees F (hard crack stage), about 10 minutes.

Whisk in the baking soda and vanilla. As soon as the mixture begins to puff, about 30 seconds, pour it out in a flat layer onto the baking sheet. Let harden 30 minutes.