cookies chocolate and chili

ingredients:

• 170 gr all purpose flour;
• 50 gr corn starch;
• 125 gr cold butter;
• 100 gr caster sugar;
• 1 pinch of salt;
• 1/2 tsp baking ammonia;
• 25 gr toasted almonds ;
• 20 gr unsweetened cocoa;
• 1 tsp chili;
• 30 gr lukewarm water.

Let’s knead!

1. toast the almonds, already chopped, in a non-stick pan for about 10 minutes, but pay attention to toast them without burn them;
2. when ready, remove them from the pan and let them cool down;
3. with a blender whisk the sugar with butter till when the mixture will be fluffy, then add thr flour, salt, corn starch and baking ammonia dissolved in lukewarm water, and mix everything;
4. add the almonds and cocoa and mix again;
5. at the end add the chopped chili and mix very well;
6. with the dough form a cylinder of approximately 4 cmm diameter, cover with a film and put it in the fridge for a couple of hours;
7. cut the dough into slices half a cm thick, put the biscuits on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and bake at 180 degrees for about 15 minutes.