Brownie Thins

These thin delicate cookies are a nice end to a heavy meal.  They are very lite, and a bite of the chocolate is satisfying, so you don't need to eat much.  Of course if you are hungry, and these are out, you can eat a pile of them for the same reason, they are so lite. 

These are not among my healthy recipes, so proceed with caution :)  If you do, throw caution to the wind and enjoy every bite. 

Ingredients: 
6 tbsp butter or coconut spread 
2 ounces dark chocolate, cut into 1/2 inch pieces 
1/2 cup sugar 
1 large egg 
3 tbsp all purpose flour 
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp almond extract 
pinch of salt 
nonstick vegetable spray 
1/4 cup pistachios, chopped almost fine 

Preheat the oven to 350.  Spray a flat cookie sheet well with the cooking spray.

Place butter and chocolate in a microwave safe bowl and microwave until almost completely melted, about 1 minutes. Whisk until smooth. Add the sugar and the egg and whisk again. Then add the flour, both extracts, and salt, whisk again until smooth. Let the batter stand for 10 minutes. 

Scoop teaspoonfuls of batter on to a cookie sheet leaving plenty of space between. Spray the bottom of a 2 inch drinking glass with cooking spray and use it to gently push down on the cookie batter, flattening them to a thin round. To keep the batter from sticking to the glass you need to use lots of spray and might need to spray after each use. Once the sheet is done sprinkle some pistachios over the cookie.  

Bake the cookies for about 8 minutes in the lower third of the oven. The edges of the cookie should just be changing color slightly to a lighter brown which means the cookie is almost done.  Allow to cool 2 minutes on the cookie sheet. Then remove them to a surface covered with either wax paper or parchment paper and allow to cool and get crisp. This will take several hours. 

Repeat the process until all the batter has been used. 

You may need to experiment with the cooking time like I did.  Ovens are different and these cookies are so delicate that they can easily be under cooked, which means they will not get crisp, or over cooked which means the flavor will not be a good.   

I like to pile them on a pedestal cake stand and I also put them in clear cookie bags and give them as gifts.