Chocolate Mayo Cookies
Posted On 14 December 2023
Yes: mayonnaise is in these. Don’t use light or flavored or anything like that. This originally was on Food Network’s site but I made few tweaks as I wanted a smaller cookie and prefer to work in weights instead of volumes.
Chocolate Mayo Cookies
These will try to kill you multiple ways.
Servings: 36 cookies
Ingredients
- 240 grams all purpose flour (2 cups)
- 11 grams baking powder (1 tablespoon)
- 3 grams fine sea salt (½ teaspoon)
- 198 grams granulated sugar (1 cup)
- 35 grams Dutch-Process Cocoa Powder (⅓ cup)
- 226 grams full-fat mayonnaise (1 cup)
- 283 grams chocolate chips — white, dark, semi-sweet (10 ounce bag) (see notes)
- water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375℉ / 190℃
- Line a couple of baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a bowl combine the flour, salt, baking powder, salt, sugar, cocoa powder, and mayonnaise. Stir to combine. If needed, add water 1 tablespoon at a time until you can make a smooth dough. May need to add 4 tablespoons.
- Add the chips of your choosing.
- Using a 1-tablespoon / 1-ounce scoop, scoop balls onto the prepared baking sheets leaving some space as these will spread during cooking.
- Bake at 375℉ / 190℃ for 9-10 minutes, turning half-way through. Let cool for a few minutes on the baking sheet before removing to a cooling rack to cool completely.
Notes
- You can also just use 2 cups of self-rising flour instead of the flour, baking powder, salt combination above.
- In the picture here, I used bittersweet chips. I imagine white chocolate chips would be a really striking look. Or chocolate candies with a hard shell. Something to remove the one-dimension look of these.
- Being so dark these are hard to tell when they’re done, so look at the edges and they should be just set and getting a little crispy.
- Many people have written far more eloquently than I can on the benefits of using Dutch-Process Cocoa Powder when working with baking powder — and using “normal” cocoa powder when using baking soda — so I’ll let you do your own research into that. The way I remember is baking Powder means use Dutch Process.
