Shiny Happy Chocolate Cookies
Shiny, fudgy cookies
Servings 20
Cost 5
Ingredients
- ¼ cup sifted all-purpose flour (28 grams)
- ¼ tsp. baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 8 oz chopped semi-sweet chocolate (228 grams)
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter (56 grams)
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups chocolate chips
- ⅔ cup walnuts or pecans chopped and toasted (optional)
Instructions
- Mix together the flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.
- In a metal bowl set over a saucepan of barely simmering water, melt chocolate with butter. Cool slightly (about 3 minutes).
- Beat eggs and sugar in a mixing bowl using high speed of an electric mixer for 2-3 minutes. Beat the melted chocolate mixture into the egg mixture. Beat in the vanilla. Add the flour mixture and stir it gently into the batter. Make sure the batter is cool, then add the chocolate chips and walnuts.
- Chill dough for at least one hour OR just let it stand at room temperature. The cookies seem to be shinier when the batter/dough stands at room temperature rather than gets chilled. But you can still chill it if you want to.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Scoop up rounded tablespoons of dough and set dough balls on parchment paper spacing about 2 ½ inches apart. Bake for 11-13 minutes. Let cookies cool on sheet for about 3 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool.