Chocolate Melting Moments. Chocolate Melting Moments, these melt in your mouth cookies, will leave behind a smile and an unforgettable flavor. Use high quality butter for this recipe. Stir in the flour and coco and mix thoroughly. Place on a greased baking sheet and press out a bit, place a small bit of chocolate on each one. Chocolate Melting Moments are the best chocolate cookies I've ever tasted!

They are intensely chocolatey and melt in the mouth! Today I have updated my Chocolate Melting Moments recipe with some better photographs as it really did deserve better than my amateur attempt from years ago! Beat the butter with the icing sugar until pale and fluffy, then add the vanilla extract and mix well. You can cook Chocolate Melting Moments using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chocolate Melting Moments

You need 125 gm of softened butter.
Prepare 3/4 cup of plain flour.
It's 1/4 cup of icing sugar.
You need 2 tbsp of cocoa powder.
It's 1 tbsp of cornflour.
It's of Filling.
It's 125 gm of icing sugar.
Prepare 20 gm of softened butter.
You need 1 of tspn vanilla extract.
You need 1/2 of tspn lemon juice.
It's of Food colouring (optional).

Sift in the flour and cornflour, then add the cocoa powder and mix until smooth (if the mixture feels a little stiff, add a few drops of water to loosen). CREAM the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in sifted flour, cocoa and custard powder. Roll rounded teaspoon amounts into balls and place on greased baking trays.

Chocolate Melting Moments instructions

Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius and line a cookie tray with baking paper..
Place plain flour, icing sugar, cocoa powder and cornflour into food processor and combine well. Place mixture into a bowl and put aside..
Put softened butter into food processor and mix until pale looking and fluffy. You might need to scrape the sides of the food processor more than once to combine well..
Add the flour mixture to the butter and slowly increase speed in your food processor until the mixture is combined..
Roll mixture into balls (approx a teaspoon size) and place on cookie tray and press the balls with a fork to slightly compact them and to get that melting moment pattern on top! Allow space between them as they will expand..
Place in the oven for approx 15 minutes or until cooked. They will be very soft to the touch and will need to cool on the tray before placing on a cooling rack..
For the filling combine the remaining 20 gms of butter and 125 gm icing sugar in your food processor and mix until pale and fluffy. Add vanilla extract, lemon juice and food colouring (optional) and mix well..
Place some of the filling (approx a teaspoon) on one cooked biscuit then place another biscuit on top to make melting moments! Repeat until all of your biscuits are filled. Then enjoy!.

Mix butter, flour and powdered sugar. Roll into balls the size of ping-pong balls. They are wonderfully buttery and melt-in-your-mouth. My butter cookies are eggless, and uses more cornflour/cornstarch than flour, resulting in such a soft, delicate crumb. Hand crafted right here in Brisbane, Chocolate Moments is the home to delectable chocolate treats made with the finest locally sourced ingredients and premium chocolate.