Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

About this Recipe

Wow, double wow, double chocolate, double good. This cookie recipe is a winner and qualifies as a best chocolate chip cookie recipe in Grandmother's Kitchen. Chocolate Chip cookies recipes from scratch have pretty similar ingredients in them. We buy a good quality natural cacao powder in bulk, and we love a good dark chocolate chip. With the combination of those these ingredients this double the chocolate recipe is one of the best chocolate chip cookies ever. We tend to refrigerate some, but mostly freeze the cookies we bake. Frozen, the cookie lasts a very long time (well let's say it has the potential to last a long time with this method of preservation). Truth is, these cookies are not overly sweet and are very tempting so the ziploc bag in the freezer gets emptier and emptier with the cookie monsters Grandmother's kitchen knows.

Grandmother's Tips for Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies:

1. Use the best dark chocolate when baking. If you use cacao and chocolate chips that are at least 70% you will get some healthy benefits derived from real dark chocolate.

2. For lovers of good dark chocolate these cookies are absolutely fabulous! They have a nice soft texture in the middle when you bite in and a depth of chocolate flavor that is sure to satisfy. They are also the perfect amount of sweet. You expect them to be so sweet but when you use healthy dark chocolate, it is not as sweet as when using a milk chocolate.

3. This is a large batch so if you freeze the cookies and they will stay fresh longer.

4. This is a good recipe if you are making a dessert to take to a potluck or to an event where there are a lot of people. It makes 54 cookie scoop sized cookies.

5. Invest in a cookie scoop if you don't already have one. You end up with even amounts of batter in each cookie and they bake at the same rate of time.


Ingredients

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Makes: 54 cookies

1 cup butter, at room temperature

1 cup granulated sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar, tightly packed

2 eggs

2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1 3/4 cups all purpose flour

1 1/4 cup cacao powder, we used an organic cacao powder

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

2 1/2 cups dark chocolate chips, to get the health benefits from chocolate it must be at least 70% cacao

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

2. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper if you have two. It will take three batches to bake the cookies. We got 54 cookies using a cookie scoop which is about a tablespoon size per cookie. The amount will vary depending on the size you make your cookies.

3. Using an electric mixer, beat the butter until creamy. Add the sugar and brown sugar and beat in until combined.

4. Add the eggs one at a time mixing in.

5. Add the vanilla mix in.

6. In a separate large bowl stir together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Combine well.

7. Slowly add the dry ingredient to the wet and beat in slowly.

8. Add the chocolate chips and beat in.

9. Scoop the cookies onto the baking sheet and leave an inch space between them.

10. Use either the back of a large spoon or your fingertips to flatten the balls down.

11. Place into the preheated oven and bake for 10 minutes.

12. Remove and leave on the baking sheet to cool for 5 minutes before transferring to the cooling rack. Repeat until done.

13. Store in a sealed container with a lid.

ENJOY!

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When you are choosing the chocolate you want to use in your baking, here are a few things to know. As far as block chocolate goes, the quality of the chocolate varies to the quantity of the cocoa butter it contains. On an average most have about 27 percent. When you have a higher proportion of cocoa butter, the chocolate melts more easily.

Eating chocolate such as milk chocolate is rarely used for baking. It already has sugar and condensed or powdered milk in milk, sweet and eating chocolates so they are not a good choice for baking.

Plain chocolate, which is also called cooking chocolate has some sugar so it has a pleasant taste already. Different brands have different cocoa butter content in them.

Organic chocolate means it is made without any chemicals additives. Cocoa powder is the residue that remains once the cocoa butter has been pressed from the ground roasted beans. The cacao powder we use in Grandmother's kitchen is pure and has no sweetener so when we use it for baking, such as in this cookie recipe, the cookies are not overly sweet. The same goes for the 70% cacao chips we use. They also are not overly sweet.

White chocolate is not really chocolate at all. It contains no cocoa solids but it contains cocoa butter and sugar. White chocolate does not set as firmly as dark chocolate. In the USA it is also referred to as white coating.



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