I love to bake, I am an aspiring pastry chef and I have loads of recipes that are just laying around. So I decided to keep them all up to date and organized on the computer. And what better way to do that than to share them with the world at the same time?
This first recipe is one of my favourite cookie recipes. If you love the combination of salt and chocolate, these cookies are for you. They are packed with chocolate intensity and are soft! And they STAY soft! Enjoy : )
Ingredients:
1 cup of unsalted butter
1 cup of brown sugar, packed
1 cup of granulated sugar
2 tsp of good vanilla
2 eggs
2/3 cup of good unsweetened cocoa powder
2 cups of all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
Directions:
Cream together the butter and the sugars until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla and the eggs one at a time and mix until well combined. Add the cocoa powder and mix. Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt and add to the chocolate mixture. If you are using a stand mixer, only let it go for a few seconds, then turn it off and switch to either a wooden spoon or a spatula. Do not over mix this batter or else your cookies will turn out semi-hard and cakey. Drop the cookie dough onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silpat mat. I like to use a tool specifically for cookie dough, but an ice cream scoop works well too to assure you get even sized cookies. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 13 minutes. (The original recipe says 15 and no more, the cookies will seem underdone. I find 15 is too long in my oven and the cookies end up more like a flat hard cake. So just keep an eye on the cookies. They WILL seem underdone. When they come out of the oven and are still kinda hot I like to flatten them slightly with my full length of my (clean) fingers, I like the texture better this way and they end up more fudgey, and plus they get a fun little pattern on them.
These cookies are great to use for ice cream sandwiches, or to crumble over a sundae, or to just enjoy on their own with a cold glass of milk. Enjoy!
♥ Tara
(*the picture used is not mine, it’s just temporary until I make these later today and get to take a picture of them. The ones in the picture have white chocolate chunks in them. I’ve tried it and it’s yummy!)
