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Honestly, these cookies are just something else. They are probably one of my favourite things that I have ever made, and I just can’t stop making them. <\/p>\n
They were so highly requested that I hope you love them too. Even just the other day I did a recipe request post on my instagram<\/a>, and SO many said Black Forest cookies so HERE YOU GO! <\/p>\n Generally, the Black Forest flavour comes from a Black Forest gateau that consists of a few levels of a light chocolate sponge cake, sandwiched with whipped cream and cherries. A lot of the time there is a kick of booze as well, or even chocolate shavings. <\/p>\n I adore the flavour of anything black forest these days, after having the best Black Forest gateau ever in Switzerland many many years ago, and I just love it. Sometimes, I refer it to quite a festive flavour, but black forest is lovely all year around for me. <\/p>\n My Black Forest loaf cake<\/a> is one of my favourites, along with my Black Forest ice cream<\/a>… but these cookies?! They’re on a whole new level of delicious. <\/p>\n So as always, the cookie dough is similar to my other cookies, and is just the perfect base for this recipe. <\/p>\n So for me, the main part of this recipe really (and I guess Black Forest in general) is getting the chocolate right. I often believe it should always be a dark chocolate flavour, so I used dark chocolate chips in these cookies.<\/p>\n However, as these are just cookies, you can just use whatever chocolate chips you like, such as milk, white or even a mixture. However, really to be Black Forest you do need to stick to the chocolate based cookie dough for the best results. <\/p>\n It may sound weird, but roll with me here, I used fresh cherries for these cookies. It sort of goes against the idea of most cookies where I often say don’t add a wetter ingredient (fresh fruit being one of those), but it does just work. <\/p>\n The cherries do create a wetter and stickier cookie dough, but it does still work, I promise. I use a large cookie scoop to help dollop my cookies onto my tray, and I do not roll these in my hands as it will be too sticky. <\/p>\n Using the correct ingredients for the cookie dough itself is so important as well as the cookie dough should be quite dry, and then you mix the cherries in as little as possible, and you get the best cookies ever. <\/p>\n So when it comes to the cookies, I make my cookie dough using my stand mixer. I find it easy, but also it’s because I’m lazy. I use a Flexi edge beater or the beater attachment, I definitely do not use the whisk as all the ingredients would get stuck. If you’re going to make the dough by hand, just add the dry ingredients in sections so you can mix it in easier. <\/p>\n Once the main cookie dough is mixed together, I pour in the chocolate chips and chopped and pitted cherries and mix in briefly. Like mentioned above, this makes the dough slightly stickier than normal, but then I use a cookie scoop to dollop the dough onto the lined trays. <\/p>\n I only put four-five cookies per LARGE tray, so that they have room to spread. I then chill the cookies slightly to help prevent them spreading whilst baking. These cookies are decent in size, the batch makes ten – so thats ten delicious cookies to eat yourself, or share amongst your family and friends. <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.janespatisserie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/BlackForestCookie1-2-533x800.jpg\")
<\/p>\nBlack forest<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nChocolate<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nBaking the Cookies<\/h3>\n
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