Recipe: Chocolate wafers

mix the dry

These chocolate wafers make great garnishes on desserts.  They taste good, are ultra crisp, and can be broken off in interesting and abstract shapes.  If you want to jazz it up a little, try adding a little black pepper or chili spice to the mix.  This recipe will make enough to spread over a full size sheet pan, or two home size pans.

You will need:

7g / 1/4oz                cocoa powder
85g / 3oz                 sugar
43g / 1.5oz              flour
60ml / 1/4C             milk

mix the wet

1                              egg white
2.5ml / 1/2tsp          vanilla
pinch                       kosher salt



Method:

 - set the oven to 350F / 177C
 - set up a silicone mat or panspray a sheet pan and stick a layer of parchment down and press out the bubbles
 - mix the cocoa, sugar and flour and a pinch of salt
 - lightly whisk the white, then add the milk and vanilla
 - add the wet mix to the dry and whisk smooth

combine

 - spread as thin as possible on the sheet pan
 - bake 10 minutes at 350F / 177C, rotate and bake another 10
 - pull from the oven and cool completely
 - break off random shards and use or store in an airtight container

spread thin

bake