Pieces of cherry and chocolate cookies

With bits of cherry and chocolate biscuits are a delicious dish that you can use as a dessert or snack to eat in the evening. These cookies are especially appreciated by those who enjoy the balance, as it has a perfect balance between taste and texture, perfect being to fall into a "little sin" from time to time.

One of the advantages of these cookies is that you don't need to be an expert to prepare them, being a perfect choice for those that are just starting in the art of cooking.

Ingredients

• 50 grams of cherries candied
• 60 grams of chocolate
• 125 grams of flour confectionery
• 1 tablespoon yeast
• 135 grams of butter
• 50 grams of sugar
• Salt
• Vanilla extract (optional)

Preparation

These cookies are made from a fast and easy way with the suggested ingredients have sufficient to twenty cookies.
The first thing you should do is to mix the butter with the sugar, a blender resolve you this problem immediately, remember it until you get a creamy and homogeneous result. When you go to use the essence of vanilla, you can incorporate it also.
In a separate bowl, stir the salt and yeast, mix well and add a pinch of salt. When they are well incorporated, see placing the powder into the Bowl where you have butter, remember it little by little, sifting them with a strainer. Remember that must beat very well to avoid clumping.
Once you have your dough is ready, you can proceed to cut cherries in small parts, also will have to chop the chocolate, which are the size of a drop. Once you have ready the chocolate and cherries, add them to dough and stir carefully.
Preheat oven to 190 ° C. Now, If you have a sleeve pastry simply fill it out with the mass and make sure you have a thick tip so that the pieces do not bind. In the event that you do not have one, we advise you to take a plastic bag and put in it the mass. Close it well by removing all the air, so that the dough is more compact as possible. Then poke a hole in one end and already, one sleeve homemade pastry.
Grease a suitable baking tray and put on the mounds of dough, separate from the other, thus not they stick together when they are baking, since the mass tends to expand due to the butter.
When you have all your ready mounds, takes the tray in the oven and cook until browned. This process doesn't take long, but it will largely depend on the oven. Normally takes between 13 and 15 minutes, so it is best that you monitor them.
Once been Golden, you can remove them from the oven and put them to cool. That Yes, you should be very careful about this, because cookies are very fragile as they are hot and break with extreme ease.
When your cookies are already cool will be ready to be consumed, or you can simply keep them in a metal container while waiting for the perfect time to enjoy them.

Additional tips

• You can dispense with the yeast if desired.
• For this recipe, the ideal is to keep the butter at room temperature.
• The use of salt can be very relative, there are those who can detect it even if you add just a little, so it will depend on your taste and your guests incorporate it or not.
• You can Save time using drops of chocolate, rather than chop it a large bar. Use the bar will give you a more rustic and homemade touch to your cookie, but in matter of taste gives the same result.
• If do not want to use the sleeve pastry, you can remove the portions using a spoon and make balls of dough.
• Ideally, let cookies cool a few minutes on one tray and once cured a little, move them with a spatula to a wire rack.

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