Until now I have looked with jealousy at beautiful cracked cookies presented in pictures on FB and Instagram. But I never got round to making them. Finally, when my son was bothering me, I decided to get cracking and I baked two baking trays of these sweets. Preparing them was very easy, but waiting for the cookies to be ready overexerted the patience of my younger child. It was good that the amount of baked cookies was enough to humour the little rascal. Remember to chill the dough balls. It is the best way to have them perfectly cracked. If you haven't made these beautiful and delicious cookies – just do it – it is really worth it.

Ingredients:
350g of flour
150g of butter
2 eggs
200-250g of caster sugar
100g of chocolate drops
1.5 teaspoons of baking powder
0.5 teaspoon of baking soda
3 tablespoons of cocoa
1 teaspoon of lemon juice

Put the flour on a pastry board. Make a dimple and put the eggs inside. Add the butter, 125g of caster sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa and lemon juice. Chop the ingredients with a knife. Add the chocolate drops and knead the dough. Cover it with some plastic foil and leave in the fridge for 2 hours. Make small balls with the dough, coat them in the caster sugar and put them on a plate. Leave in the fridge for an hour.
Heat the oven up to 180C. Cover a baking sheet with some baking powder. Coat the dough balls in the caster sugar again to make a thick layer and put them on the baking sheet separately. Bake for 12-14 minutes. Leave them to cool down.

Enjoy your meal!

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