Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Soft and chewy chocolate cookie dough bursting with chocolate chunks is baked into irresistible drop cookies. A cookie made for chocolate lovers.
The dough not only has melted chocolate infused into it but cocoa powder too making for a rich, fudgy dough. The addition of chocolate chunks sends them into overdrive. You can use milk or semi-sweet chocolate, keeping in mind milk chocolate is sweeter and these are already sweet to begin with. I used semi-sweet chocolate and they were plenty sweet enough.
They make your house smell like a chocolate factory, if only temporarily, and might even give you the urge to watch the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie, one of my favorites of all-time. It will automatically induce sugar cravings and the good thing is you’ll have these cookies on hand.
A sure cure for the most demanding sweet tooth.
Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 ounces coarsely chopped semi-sweet or milk chocolate
- 1 stick 8 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 + 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 ounces semi-sweet or milk chocolate chocolate chunks
Instructions
- In a medum bowl whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
- In a microwave proof bowl melt the coarsely chopped chocolate and the butter together at 50% power for 25 seconds at a time - stirring after each until they're both completely melted. Cool to luke warm.
- Add the melted chocolate mixture to a large mixing bowl or stand mixer with the sugar, eggs, and vanilla - beat on medium speed until combined.
- On low speed beat in the flour mixture a little at a time, scraping down the bowl as needed. Fold in all of the chocolate chunks or only half of them if you prefer to garnish the tops.
- Refrigerate the batter 20 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Fit 2 large aluminum cookie sheets with silpats or parchment paper.
- Scoop up big, heaping tablespoons of the batter and place 2 inches apart on the baking sheet. Bake 10 - 14 minutes, or somewhere in between - 10 for softer cookies, 14 for more well done. (I recommend you do a test run of 2 or 3 cookies to find the perfect time to suit your oven and baking sheets - they can produce different results from mine.) They might look a little undone in the centers from the melted chocolate.
- If you held back on the chocolate chunks press a few into the tops of each cookie. Let them cool on the pan 10 - 15 minutes then remove to wire racks and cool completely.
- Store in airtight containers in a cool place up to 5 days.