Currently cooking out of Pure Dessert by Alice Medrich.

Not long after Pure Dessert was published, this cookie recipe started popping up on the internet. Pretty much everybody who tried them really liked them, and I have to agree. These cookies are addictive. The buckwheat flour gives the cookies a slightly grassy, sweet flavor that goes really well with the cocoa nibs. What are cocoa nibs? They are bits of roasted cocoa beans that have a very faint chocolate smell, but a bitter taste. However, baked into these cookies, the cocoa nibs lost their bitterness and added a nut-like crunch to the cookies.

Besides buckwheat flour and cocoa nibs, the recipe calls for a lot of butter, some sugar, salt and vanilla. All in all, a very easy recipe. The hardest part was letting the dough sit the refrigerator long enough to harden so it could be sliced into rounds.

While my cookies tasted really good, they didn’t look so good. I think I sliced the dough too thinly as my cookies spread and turned out very lacy and crumbly. Some of the other people who tried the recipe rolled the dough out and used cookie cutters. Next time, I might try this.

For another look at these cookies (they are much prettier than mine) and the recipe go here. Cocoa nibs can be found online or in some grocery stories in the baking aisle.