In order to celebrate the creation of "Team Magma Reborn" an idea occurred to bake the all famous lavaridge town "Lava cookies" Now here is my first actual attempt. Even though it was a first try at it I am quite happy with how they taste, the looks.. meh I should practise on that! :rolleyes: Either way happy Team Magma Reborn creation day and I hope you will enjoy this picture of the lovely cookies.
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For anybody interested here is the recipe
550g Flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract (or a satchel with vanilla sugar)
180g Crystal sugar
180g Brown sugar
250g of powder sugar
A little bit of water
2 eggs
250g butter
And around 300 - 400g of pure chocolate (You can use other chocolate as well but I used pure in this case)
First: Turn the oven up till 190 degrees Celsius, use a baking mat or baking-paper to cover up a plate so the cookies won't stick to the plating.
Place the butter, brown sugar, crystal sugar and vanilla in a bowl and mix it together. (Butter should be on room temperature so it is easier to mix it) Once the mix is nice and creamy add in the flour. Once the flour is a bit mingles among the mix add in one egg, mix it, then add in the other egg. Keep mixing till your dough is nice and firm. If the dough is still a bit dry you should try and kneed it.
Use a table spoon to make balls of dough on the plate and leave some space between them, while baking the cookies will expand (and if you follow my first try they will become Godzilla scaled .. :mellow: )
Leave them baking in the oven for about 10 to 15 minutes, poke them with a metal stick to make sure they are no longer raw. If there is dough sticking on to the metal leave them be for a few more minutes.
Once they are ready you will find them being soft at first, let them rest in the fridge for a bit and they will become harder (Almost like a metapod *badum tss*)
If you'd like you can put a little bit of icing over them, I used a very dark reddish icing to create the failure lava but it's not a must. (However lava cookies should have lava icing i.m.o) Simply empty that pot of powder sugar and add a little bit of water to your taste, keep mixing though and be careful not to add too much water. It needs to become a lovely glace looking mix. Add in some red, lots of red, more red... yeah that should be enough. Pour it over your cookies and there you go, lava cookies!