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Should You Put Feta In Chocolate Cookies?
By Kalea Martin
A plate of chocolate cookies with chocolate chips and salt
Sea salt and even potato chips can work well with chocolate in some cookies, and TikTok creator Carolina Gelen claims that feta cheese is also a delicious addition.
A chocolate cookie with feta chunks on a baking sheet
In her TikTok, Gelen makes cookie dough using melted dark chocolate, and brown butter, swapping chocolate chips for crumbled feta cheese to create a salty and sweet flavor.
A block of feta with herbs and tomatoes on a wooden platter
While Gelen was right about the flavor, it doesn't work quite as well as other salt and chocolate combos, due to the fact that feta's taste and texture changes when it's baked.
A jar of feta cubes in oil
Instead of staying salty and sharp, baking brings out feta's sweet and citrusy notes, not to mention that it acquires an almost gritty texture when it melts.
Squares of chocolate beside a pile of cheese cubes
Therefore, the feta flavor gets easily overpowered by the strong dark chocolate. Unfortunately, feta doesn't give any contrasting textures and flavors like a cookie mix-in should.
A cake with white and blue icing that has two slices taken out on plates
Two halves of a chocolate chip cookie sitting on top of each other
A dish of baked pasta with feta, tomatoes, and basil

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