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🍰 Crunchy Peanut Chocolate Diamonds
154 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 1 Shortcrust pastry (basic cookie dough recipe)
- 50 g Peanuts (roasted and salted)
- 100 g Dark chocolate couverture
- 50 g Peanut butter (crunchy)
- coarse sea salt
Instructions
- 1. Prepare the shortcrust pastry dough according to the basic recipe instructions. Follow the guide for classic cookie dough.
- 2. Roll out the dough on a floured surface until it is thin.
- 3. Cut the dough sheet into diamond-shaped pieces using a sharp knife.
- 4. Place the diamond shapes onto a baking tray lined with baking paper.
- 5. Preheat your oven to 180 °C (use 160 °C for fan-assisted ovens or Gas Mark 2–3).
- 6. Bake the diamonds for 10 to 12 minutes until they are golden brown.
- 7. Remove the tray from the oven and let the cookies cool down completely.
- 8. Roughly chop the peanuts into small pieces.
- 9. Roughly chop the baking chocolate (couverture) as well.
- 10. Melt the chocolate pieces over a bowl of hot water until they are liquid.
- 11. Remove about half of the melted chocolate from the water bath.
- 12. Stir the peanut butter into the remaining chocolate until you have a smooth mixture.
- 13. Take two cooled diamonds and join them together with a dollop of the peanut-chocolate mixture.
- 14. Let the joined cookies set for a short time before you decorate them further.
- 15. Decorate the top of the cookies with a dollop of the remaining plain chocolate.
- 16. Sprinkle the decorated cookies with the chopped peanuts and a pinch of salt.
- 17. Place the cookies in the refrigerator until the chocolate has completely hardened.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 154
- Protein: 4 g · Fett/Fat: 9 g · Carbs: 14 g