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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  African >> Rest Africa >> Nigerian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Heat oven to 350 deg F / 180 deg. Celsius. | 2. Line a cookie tin with baking paper. I find it easiest to grease the tin, flatten the baking paper over the grease, and lightly grease again. | 3. In a large mixing bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder (unsweetened), baking powder and salt. | 4. Put the superfine/caster sugar in another mixing bowl, add the butter, and whisk with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. | 5. Add the egg and vanilla, and again whisk very well. | 6. Mix the flour-cocoa mixture into the sugar-butter mixture. At first it might seem as if the batter needs more liquid: don't add anything! | 7. Mix in the chopped chocolate and the almonds. Once everything is well mixed in (use your hands, it works well), the batter will be quite soft. | 8. (If you find the batter too soft you can chill it in the fridge for 30 mins.). | 9. Use roughly a tablespoon of batter per cookie, and roll into a ball. Put the balls on the prepared tin, and press flat with the tines of a fork. | 10. Bake the cookies for 12 - 15 minutes, until the tops just start to make little cracks. | 11. Cool slightly in the tin, before removing to a wire rack. Cool completely before storing in an airtight tin. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
flour	2	cups		1156.56	253.2108	18.802	4.4872
cocoa powder	1/3	cup	unsweetened	65.36	16.598	5.6187	3.9273
baking powder	1/2	teaspoon		1.219	0.6371	0.0	0.0
salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
superfine sugar	1/2	cup		387.0	99.98	0.0	0.0
butter	8	ounces		1292.76	59.3989	40.3931	108.86399999999999
egg	1			71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
vanilla essence	2	teaspoons		-	-	-	-
chocolate	5	ounces	semisweet chopped	82.2135	13.4235	2.92	2.0412
almond	1/2	cup	nibbed	963.56	0.0	0.0	109.0

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.