Chocolate Chocolate Make It Melt: Double Chocolate Cookies

Do you ever wake up in the morning and just crave chocolate?  Well, this morning was one of those mornings for me.  For Miss A's birthday in December, a friend had baked the most amazing chocolate chocolate chip cookies.  I normally am not a huge chocolate chocolate person, but when I crave chocolate, I CRAVE chocolate.  These cookies aren't overly sweet and have just the right amount of chocolate to satisfy.  The mix of semi-sweet and milk chocolate keep them from being too heavy on the chocolate.  There's really nothing else to say about these cookies except that you MUST try them if you're even remotely a chocolate person. 

CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

from Real Simple

makes 3 dozen cookies

hands-on time: 15 minutes

total time: 30 minutes

Ingredients:

1/2 cup unsalted butter (room temperature)

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 large egg

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 cup milk chocolate chips

1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips

creaming the butter and sugars

Preparation:

- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

- Cream the butter and sugars in a large bowl with an electric mixer on high speed.

- Lower to medium speed and add the egg and vanilla extract.

- Sift together the dry ingredients: flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.

- Add the dry mixture to the butter mixture on low speed; beat until fully incorporated.

- Form the dough into small balls using a small spoon (about 1 1/2 inch balls).  Place on a non-stick baking sheet (or line a baking sheet with parchment paper or aluminum foil).

- Bake for about 12 minutes (until the centers are just set).  Let cool on the baking sheets for about 5 minutes and then transfer to wire racks to finish cooling.

 **I made exactly 30 cookies with this recipe - generously sized, but not too big.  If I were making this recipe again to share with others, I'd probably double the recipe so there'd be enough for me to indulge and to share with others!


Happy Sunday!