We first experienced the magic of Dorie Greenspan's World Peace Cookies at a friend's dinner party. These salted chocolate butter cookies certainly lived up to their name – if everyone ate them, we would have a chance at world peace! It was truly love at first bite for me.
I made a homemade version of the cookies a few weeks later, and was pleased with how easy the recipe was. The cookie dough requires chilling before baking, so it can be prepared ahead of time and added to a weeknight dinner, a complicated weekend dinner party, or even a somewhat impromptu potluck.
The preparation of the dough itself is fairly standard for cookies – wet and dry ingredients separately combined, before being added to each other. I didn't have any fine sea salt though, so used coarse sea salt instead.
When I added in the chocolate chunks, I reduced the amount to 4 oz. instead of 5, to fit my personal preference for slightly less chocolate.
After preparing the dough, you create two thin, long logs to then chill for at least 2 hours.
After chilling the dough, it's relatively easy to slice the pieces into uniform 1/2 inch pieces and put into a 325 oven.
I baked the cookies for slightly longer than called for in the recipe – approx. 13 minutes instead of 12.
While you will have an intense desire to eat these cookies right out of the oven, they really should cool down before you bite into them. If you wait just a few minutes, you'll be able to get the full flavors of the salt and bitter chocolate, as well as the crumbly shortbread texture. Enjoy!
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