Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
Serves: 18 cookies
Fudgy and slightly crunchy Double Chocolate Chip Cookies which uses both real chocolate and cocoa, plus chocolate chips for a totally chocolate affair!
Ingredients
- 125 g (4 oz) dark chocolate, 70% cocoa
- 150 g (1 cup) plain flour, (all-purpose flour)
- 30 g (¼ cup) cocoa powder, sifted
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon fine salt
- 125 g (1 stick plus 1 tablespoon) unsalted butter, softened
- 75 g (½ cup) light muscovado sugar, or light brown sugar
- 50 g (¼ cup) caster sugar, (superfine sugar)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg, cold
- 350 g (2 cups) dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 170°C/325°F (without fan).
- Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper.
- Melt thedark chocolate either in the microwave or in a bain-marie. Set the chocolate aside to cool slightly.
- Measure the plain flour, cocoa, bicarbonate of soda and salt into a bowl.
- Cream the butter with the light brown sugar and caster sugar, either with a wooden spoon or with a stand mixer.
- Add the melted chocolate and mix together, followed by the vanilla extract and egg.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix until everything is well incorporated.
- Finally, stir in the dark chocolate chips.
- Use either your hands or an ice-cream scoop to form rounds of dough a bit bigger than the size of a golf ball. I use an ice-cream scoop with produces about 18 cookies from this recipe.
- Place the rounds of dough on the lined baking tray but do not flatten them.
- Bake the cookies for about 15-18 minutes, making sure that you do not overbake them because they will taste bitter.
- Leave the cookies to cool slightly on the baking tray for about 5 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool.
Kitchen Notes
- RECIPE CREDIT
Recipe adapted from Nigella Express by Nigella Lawson - OVEN TEMPERATURES
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