Toblerone chocolate chunk cookies
Well, we have been in Switzerland since Friday. Interlaken had been having beautiful weather with temperatures in the 70s! (That’s about 20 C for you Europeans). That is, until we got here… now it is in the 40s, or about 4 C. Well, it has made our high altitude hikes very scenic and also cold, requiring lots of hot chocolate when we get back. Here is how we make up for all those calories we burnt while hiking… making a whole batch of cookies without our coworkers to share them!
Well, we have been in Switzerland since Friday. Interlaken had been having beautiful weather with temperatures in the 70s! (That’s about 20 C for you Europeans). That is, until we got here… now it is in the 40s, or about 4 C. And even colder at the higher altitudes. Well, it has made our hikes very scenic and also cold, requiring lots of hot chocolate and cookies when we get back. Here is how we make up for all those calories we burnt while hiking… making a whole batch of cookies without our coworkers to share them!
- 1 cup butter: 226 g butter
- 1 1/2 cups sugar : 300 g zucker
- 2 eggs : 2 eier
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract : 1 1/2 tsp vanille-extrakt
- 2 1/4 cups flour : 295 g weissmehl
- 1 tsp baking soda : 1 tsp haus natron
- 1/2 tsp salt : 1/2 tsp salz
- 1 1/2 cups Toblerone chunks : 200 grams Toblerone brocken
Baking in a foreign country is always fun. Most of the ingredients are easy to figure out, for example eggs (not much else looks like eggs) or butter (german: butter). But some are more of a guessing game. For example, baking soda is haus natron… or so we think. The cookies turned out fine so I guess we were right.
So far we haven’t bought any super fancy chocolate, but we got some store brand chocolate which was delicious! In the US I refuse to buy store brand chocolate just on principle. And Toblerone for the cookies of course. Almost everything here is much more expensive than the US, except cheese. You can get a wedge of Brie for about half what it would cost in the states! So we have been chowing down on that. Yum!
Yummmm… I was totally going through cookie blog withdrawal! hehe They sell dark chocolate Toblerone at World Market here… I’ll have to give these a try!
hmmm. this post claims that zoe was the chef of these cookies, but i think there is some pretty compelling photographic evidence that in-fact jason might have been the maker.