Chocolate and Pecan Nuts Cookies

Chocolate and Pecan Nuts Cookies

Here's my recipe for American cookies, discovered by chance during my stay in the States.

Ingredients:

• Flour type 00 310g
• Bicarbonate one and a half teaspoons
• Butter 170g
• Sugar 150g
• Brown sugar 50g
• Eggs 1 large 
• Lemon zeste 10g
• Pecan walnuts 80g
• Milk 40mL
• Chocolate 100g (dark or milk chocolate)
• Vanilla extract 1 teaspoon 
• Salt a pinch 

for the icing:

• Icing sugar 180g
• Almond milk 25ml

Procedure:

Mix in a bowl 310g of flour, a teaspoon and a half of baking soda and a pinch of salt. Whip vigorously, in a second large bowl, 170g of butter softened with 150g of white sugar and 50g of brown sugar for at least a couple of minutes. We also add 40mL of milk and an egg and gradually incorporate the flour, until we obtain a homogeneous and compact dough. Finally, add the chocolate from a chopped stick and the Pecan nuts. Wrap the dough in the film and let it cured in the fridge for 30 minutes.

We resume the dough and on a clean surface we round it so that we have a cylinder ''biscuit'' 😂 to cut it into precise slices of about 1cm with a knife. Arrange the slices/biscuits in a baking pan covered with baking paper well spaced apart.

We bake in a hot oven and bake 15 minutes at 180°C in static mode. We bake and let it cool. 

We prepare the icing, put the icing sugar and almond milk in a bowl and whip with force until we have a mixture with a dense and homogeneous consistency that we will use to decorate the cookies.