Christmas Chocolate Olive Oil and Chili Cookies

Makes approx. 20 cookies
INGREDIENTS

• 250 ml of olive oil
• 220 g brown sugar
• 1 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• 170 g bread flour
• 130 g all purpose
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon sea salt
• 100 g roughly chopped dark chocolate (70%)
• 100 g roughly chopped dark chocolate (50%)
• 2-3tsp cayenne pepper, depending on how spicy you like it
• Coarse sea salt for dusting
  
  

METHOD

1. Preheat your oven to 170°C (fan) /190°C. Line your baking sheets with baking parchment.
   
   
2. In a large bowl and using an electric mixer, cream together the eggs, oil, brown sugar and vanilla extract until the sugar has almost dissolved, this should take approximately 5-8 minutes.
   
   
3. In a medium-sized bowl, sift together the bread flour, all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, sea salt and cayenne pepper.
   
   
4. Pour the flour mixture into the oil-sugar mixture and using a spatula mix until just blended. Add the chopped chocolate and fold into the dough. Chill covered with cling film for around 30 minutes.
   
   
5. Get about 1 heaped teaspoon of dough and use your hands to roll it into a golf ball sized mound. Place on the baking parchment. Leave a healthy space between cookies, they will spread out quite a bit. Sprinkle coarse sea salt on cookies to taste. Bake for 10-15 minutes. Allow to cool for 10 minutes on the baking sheet and then finish cooling on a metal rack.