Triple chocolate cookies by Frances
Posted by Bake Club on Sunday, May 19, 2013 Under: cookies
This is Nigella's evily good recipe for her Totally chocolate chocolate chip cookies. I have never made anything with three types of chocolate before. Seems so indulgent but just what the mental health doctor ordered on a rainy day with a hot cuppa and a lie down.
I always use less sugar than Nigella in all her recipes.
125 grams dark chocolate (minimum 70% cocoa solids)
150 grams plain flour
30 grams cocoa powder (sieved)
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
½ teaspoon salt
125 grams soft butter
75 grams soft light brown sugar
50 grams white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 large egg (cold from the fridge)
350 grams dark chocolate chips (or semi sweet chocolate morsels) I only used about 100g and it was enough for me.
- Preheat the oven to 170°C/gas mark 3/325ºF. Melt the 125g / 4oz dark chocolate either in the microwave or in a heatproof dish over a pan of simmering water.
- Put the flour, cocoa, bicarbonate of soda and salt into a bowl.
- Cream the butter and sugars in another bowl. Add the melted chocolate and mix together.
- Beat in the vanilla extract and cold egg, and then mix in the dry ingredients. Finally stir in the chocolate morsels or chips.
- Scoop out 12 equal-sized mounds - an ice cream scoop and a palette
knife are the best tools for the job - and place on a lined baking sheet
about 6cm apart. Do not flatten them. (NIgella makes HUGE cookies - I made about 30 medium-sized ones)
- Cook for 18 minutes, testing with a cake tester to make sure it comes out semi-clean and not wet with cake batter. If you pierce a chocolate chip, try again.
- Leave to cool slightly on the baking sheet for 4-5 minutes, then transfer them to a cooling rack to harden as they cool.
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