Deep Dark Chocolate Fudge Cookies
These are my favorite chocolate cookies. So rich and fudgey, if you are a chocoholic, this is your new cookie recipe.Plan Ahead Note: The butter needs to be softened to room temperature.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups flour
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 8 oz. semisweet chocolate broken into small pieces
- 4 oz. unsweetened chocolate broken into small pieces
- 1 ½ cups brown sugar firmly packed
- ¾ cup unsalted butter softened to room temperature
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 cups semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Sift together flour,cocoa, baking soda, and salt into a bowl. Set aside.
- Heat 1" water in the bottom half of a double boiler and heat over medium heat.
- Add semisweet and unsweetened chocolate pieces to top half of double boiler, stirring over low heat until just melted.
- Cool to room temperature.
- In an electric mixer at medium speed, blend brown sugar and butter for 1 minute.
- Scrape down sides of bowl, and beat on high for 30 seconds. Scrape down the bowl.
- Add eggs one at a time, beating until blended and then scrape down the bowl after each egg.
- Add the vanilla extract and beat for 30 seconds.
- Add the melted chocolate and beat for 10 seconds.
- Scrape down bowl and add sifted flour mixture, beating just until blended.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Drop cookies by rounded spoonfuls on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 325 degrees for 18 minutes.
- Let cool on cookie sheet for 5 minutes and then move to wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
Recipe from Death By Chocolate Cookbook.