More Martha: Outrageous Chocolate Cookies

Courtesy of marthastewart.com

Man, just looking at the picture makes me need to make them again, immediately.

These were posted over at the Livejournal community bakebakebake and since I didn’t want to make just any old cookie, I wanted to try them myself. They are, indeed, outrageous. I slightly modified the recipe and so I’ll share with you what I did.

Ingredients

Makes 2 dozen

• 8 ounces semisweet chocolate, roughly chopped
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 large eggs
• 3/4 cup packed light-brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 package (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chunks *

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Heat chopped chocolate and butter in a microwave safe bowl in 20-second increments, stirring between each, until almost melted; do not overheat. In another bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
2. In a mixing bowl, beat eggs, brown sugar, and vanilla on high speed until light and fluffy. Reduce speed to low; beat in melted chocolate.Mix in flour mixture until just combined. Stir in chocolate chunks.
3. Drop heaping tablespoons of dough 2 to 3 inches apart onto baking sheets.* Bake, rotating sheets halfway through, until cookies are shiny and crackly yet soft in centers, 12 to 15 minutes. Cool on sheets 10 minutes; with a thin metal spatula, transfer to racks to cool completely.

* – I used 1/2 package semisweet chunks and 1/2 package white chocolate chunks to alleviate some of that chocolatey-ness. I mean, 20oz of semisweet is a LOT of the same chocolate flavor. These would also probably be incredible with peanut butter chips.

**- here again is where I adjusted slightly. I always seem to have trouble with my cookies going flat and rather than waste some pretty pricey ingredients on flat, unappealing looking cookies, I took a note from Alton Brown’s “The Chewy” cookie and chilled the dough, and then rather than dropping teaspoons, I made balls instead, cooking only 6 at a time. They cooked up as you see in the photo above so I’m saying my strategy is a successful one. Take that, cookies! I win again!