Using olive oil when baking deserts makes a good substitute for butter as it’s packed with antioxidants, making your sweet treats “healthier”, or at least making you feel slightly less guilty when indulging. Olive oil especially, extra virgin olive, oil can also bring awesome flavour into your deserts, due to some oils having peppery flavour you can achieve interesting sweet and savoury combinations.
This recipe combines three of our favourite things, red wine, cookies (now who doesn’t love cookies?) and, of course, olives! Olives and red wine go great together and mixing them up with some cookie dough and baking them just takes them to the next level.
Olive Oil Cookies with Rosemary & Red Wine
INGREDIENTS
2 3/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Pinch salt
1/4 teaspoon Piment d’Espelette A.O.C, smoked red pepper flakes or regular red pepper flakes (optional)
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon minced fresh rosemary or 1/2 teaspoon dried
3/4 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup olive oil, plus a little for cookie sheet
3/4 cup dry red wine
METHOD
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Combine the dry ingredients. Beat the eggs with the olive oil and wine. Use a rubber spatula to stir the liquid mix into the dry one, just until well combined; if the mixture is stiff, add a little more wine.
2. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto a lightly oiled cookie sheet and back 12 to 15 minutes, or until lightly browned. Cool a couple of minutes, then remove the cookies to a rack to cool further.
Sources: http://www.tokyoterrace.com/2010/10/olive-oil-cookies-with-rosemary-red-wine/
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