February 5-6, 2010: Pecan Mudslide Cookies

"Make something amongst chocolate... in addition to gluten-free!" my cheeky coeliac officemate Andy suggested. Though this birthday baking wasn't for her, it was for her housemate, in addition to she wanted inwards on the action. Luckily for Andy (and conveniently for me), Clotilde posted the perfect candidate cookie recipe merely hours afterwards our conversation. It was neither gluten-free nor vegan, but it was a cinch to suit it in addition to larn inwards so.

It was Orgran to the rescue on both counts - their gluten-free flour mix in addition to egg replacer made slow in addition to straight substitutes for the offending ingredients. (A Nuttelex-for-butter sub was likewise a no-brainer.) And, of course, these imposters were never going to live on detected - this recipe contains more than 4 times the weight of chocolate every bit it does my substitutes. So land y'all don't convey to fuss over the flour, eggs or butter, it is worth buying chocolate y'all actually like.

As a consequence, these are intense in addition to melty in addition to non every bit bulky every bit your average cookie. Yet they too convey a trivial to a greater extent than softness in addition to chew than I was anticipating - a win all round! Clotilde has this quantity of dough making sixteen enormous cookies but I carve upward it into a dyad of dozen smaller serves - plenty for a box for the birthday gal, a box for Andy, in addition to a few to a greater extent than for a weekend picnic.

Pecan mudslide cookies
(adapted from a recipe at Chocolate & Zucchini)

430g chocolate, roughly chopped (I used Lindt 70%)
35g Nuttelex
135g castor sugar
equivalent of ii eggs (I used ii teaspoons Orgran No Egg whisked into 4 tablespoons water)
50g flour (I used Orgran gluten-free obviously flour)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
60g pecan halves

Gently melt 250g of the chocolate in addition to fix it aside to cool slightly.

Line a baking tray amongst newspaper in addition to preheat the oven to 190°C.

In a large bowl, shell together the Nuttlex in addition to saccharide until good combined. Gradually shell inwards the 'eggs' until the mixture is completely smooth. Sift inwards the flour, baking pulverisation in addition to tabular array salt in addition to mix them until merely combined. Add the melted chocolate in addition to stir i time to a greater extent than alone until the indgredients are merely combined. Fold inwards the pecans in addition to remaining chocolate.

Now the mixture's going to live on pretty sloppy. Clotilde does this affair where she pours it onto a tray, refrigerates it, slices it into unmarried portions in addition to shapes them amongst her hands. I merely plonked spoonfuls of the sloppy batter onto the tray in addition to they turned out OK. (I refrigerated the remaining bowl of mixture for a land in addition to it was tough to spoon in addition to kind - in all likelihood don't create that.) Anyway, larn your mixture into biscuity shapes on the tray, allowing around infinite for spreading.

Bake the cookies for 10-15 minutes, until they've merely onrush the surface. Allow them to balance for at to the lowest degree v minutes on the tray earlier transferring them to a rack to cool completely.