Something Chocolatey

Hello! Sorry it's been a while. Things have been busy in Ithaca, what with the fourth of July, running a 5K, and moving out of my house. But I have been baking! So fear not, you will have in your hands by the end of this post, a delicious recipe for "something chocolatey." And it is definitely chocolatey. And delicious. And it's totally okay to eat as dinner. I ran a 5K, it's allowed.

Dinner!

Okay. So this post is about a recipe I'll call "The Triple Threat." It's a chocolate cookie, with chocolate chips and white chocolate chips. Also known as "Yes, Please." The cookie itself is dense without being heavy and is chock full of flavor. I've found it's fun to experiment with different cocoas and different cocoa ratios. This time I used a fifty:fifty mix of a medium cocoa and a dark cocoa. The result was a dark chocolate cookie, but not enough to make you think that it's too dark. I think that if I had used all dark cocoa it might have been a little on the bitter side, so I lucked out there.

All the dries. Note the two different cocoa colors! Pretty!

The kind of chips you use is totally up to you. I used semi sweet and white chocolate, but using peanut butter and milk chocolate would be just as scrumptious. I think the white chips added a bit of sweetness that cut down on any astringency that may have started to build up from the cocoas. You could also use chocolate chunks. That's always fun since when the cookies are still warm from the oven it's a bigger chunk of hot gooey goodness. A mix of chips and chunks would be even better since then you're not sure what you're going to get! Experiment, go crazy, the more chips the better! My only recommendation is to not have so many chips that you don't overpower the dough with chips since then you'll just get burnt chocolate and not so baked cookies. The most chips per batch I would do is fifty:fifty cookie:chips.

And now for the recipe!

Recipe: The Triple Threat

1 cup butter, softened (microwave for 10 seconds or beat with a rolling pin!)

1 1/2 cups granulated sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp vanilla

2 cups flour

2/3 cup cocoa powder

3/4 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

2 cups semi sweet chips

1/2 cup white chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350F

Mix flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt together

Beat butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla until light and fluffy in a separate bowl

Stir the dries into the wet ingredients until well blended. Mix in chips. Drop on cookie sheets by rounded teaspoonfuls.

Bake for 8-10 minutes.

Happy baking!

-Sarah