3x Chocolate Cookies

5.00 (8)
⏱ 32 mins 🍽 20 cookies 🏷 Drop Cookies

These rich and wonderful cookies are almost like a sophisticated candy. The recipe, sourced from a well-used old magazine, involves melting two types of chocolate before combining with the batter. The result is a decadent treat studded with chocolate chips and finished with a nut half on top. It yields about 20 cookies and is well worth the effort.

3x Chocolate Cookies

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons flour, sifted
  • 1/8 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 ounce unsweetened chocolate
  • 3 ounces semisweet chocolate
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 1/3 cup light brown sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 1 large egg
  • 3/4 cup chocolate chips
  • pecans or walnut halves

Method

  1. Prepare two cookie sheets by lining them with foil.
  2. Sift the flour together with the baking powder and salt.
  3. In the top of a double boiler, combine the unsweetened chocolate, semisweet chocolate and butter. cover for a few minutes until the chocolate starts to melt, then uncover and stir until fully melted.
  4. Take the mixture off the heat and let it cool for 2-3 minutes.
  5. Stir in the brown sugar, vanilla, water and egg until the mixture is smooth.
  6. Add the sifted dry ingredients and stir until they are fully incorporated.
  7. Fold the chocolate chips into the batter.
  8. Drop rounded teaspoonfuls of dough onto the prepared foil, spacing them about 1 1/2 inches apart.
  9. Press a pecan or walnut half onto the top of each cookie.
  10. Bake the cookies at 350 for 12-13 minutes.
  11. Once baked, slide the foil off the baking sheets and let the cookies rest on the foil for a few minutes.
  12. Transfer the cookies to cooling racks to finish cooling completely.

Nutrition (per serving)

Sodium21100 mg

Recipe details

CategoryDrop Cookies
AuthorSudie