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Receta Chocolate-Strawberry Thumbprint Cookies: Fussy but Fearless
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Ingredientes
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 ounce semisweet chocolate, chopped
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter (at room temperature )
- ¼ cup plus 6 ½ teaspoons granulated sugar (divided)
- 1 large egg yolk
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 4 ounce cream cheese (at room temperature )
- 2 tablespoon confectioners' sugar
- 5-6 fresh strawberries (washed, stemmed and finely diced)
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