Make these Chocolate Pepper Cookies for Christmas this year, if you are looking for a different kind of recipe.
The cookies include fine pink pepper flavors and chocolate notes.
This easy and quick to make gluten-free cookie is a real treat!
Learn how to make chocolate pepper cookies further below.
I came across the idea of making these chocolate pepper cookies at a cookie swap with a friend a few years ago.
Chocolate and pink pepper corn is a match made in heaven!
Pink pepper corn is actually not a true peppercorn, they are berries from the Brazilian pepper tree also known as Christmas berry tree.
The pink pepper corn has a light fragile husk, which peels off easily.
The dried fruit is one of the most expensive pepper varieties and can be at times difficult to be found.
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For example we had a hard time finding pink pepper corns in store in Austria, we ended up buying the pepper corns in France.
I don’t think that one can buy pink peppercorns in India, however they are commonly available in the US, so you might be able to buy it over amazon.com, if you live in India.
This pink berry spice has very subtle floral flavors, which you can incorporate well with other ingredients and in savory as well as sweet dishes.
Of course pink pepper corn has a tendency to work better with certain kind of ingredients, and chocolate being one of them.
Chocolate Pepper Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
for the dough:
- 1½ cups Almond Flour
- 1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
- 1 cup Sugar
- ½ cup Cocoa powder
- 1 Egg
- pinch Salt
- ⅔ cup Butter soft
to decorate:
- 7 ounces dark Chocolate minimum 60%
- Pink Peppercorn a few
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl add the almond flour, baking powder sugar and chocolate powder. Mix it quickly through and continue to add in the egg, salt and butter. Mix the whole content to a smooth dough.
- Preheat your oven to 350° Fahrenheit/ 180° Celsius and keep a backing tray ready with the baking parchment paper laid out.
- With your hand form small teaspoon sized balls, place on the baking tray and press them a little onto the parchment as shown. Do this for the remaining dough until everything is used up.
- Let the cookies cool. Prepare a bain marie (aka double boiler) by keeping a pot with water on the hot stove and placing a smaller pot, filled with chocolate, into the hot water so that the chocolate melts but doesn't burn on. Once the chocolate is melted spread the chocolate over the cookies evenly and press a few pink pepper corns into the chocolate as long as it's still liquid and hot. The peppercorns shouldn't be able to fall off easily.
- Place some parchment paper into a cookie box and keep the cookies in it. Store in a cool and dry place.
Nutrition
Can you buy pink pepper easily in your local stores?
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I love to use pink pepper berries to garnish the cookies too. These look so X’masy and delicious!
I am so intrigued by this idea…I’ve never heard of the pink pepper corn. Are they spicy? Love that you paired them with chocolate in these cookies…they look great!
Yum! Love that these are gluten free too.
These cookies look delicious. I love that they are gluten free and made with almond flour. I can’t wait to try them.
Having to eat gluten-free, this is a perfect recipe for me! Thank you for sharing, I am always looking for new recipes to make!
Your cookies look rather delicious. Buying some almond flour today for another recipe but now I’ll buy enough for 2!
Wow, what an interesting flavor combo- I never would have thought to put them together but these look amazing and I bet they taste just as good as they look!
Those cookies are exquisite!