Chocolate Chunk Cookies (from Food & Wine top 20 Recipes) Basic concepts: - Use more chocolate than most recipes call for, e.g., the original of the below recipe calls for 12 oz chocolate; I use 16-18 oz. - Use chocolate chips if that’s all you can get, but slabs of better quality chocolate, like Callubaut*, broken and cut into chunks gives you a better cookie. If you start with a slab, make it more than a pound as breaking it up produces some chocolate powder. Use the powder for something else, like eating it by the spoonful. - Toast the pecan pieces in a dry skillet before adding them to the dough. - Baking times are exact, so probably best to start unstoned. - Need to have some cold milk on hand. - You can double recipe and roll half into a couple of logs and freeze these for another time. 2 C + 2 T all-purpose flour 1 tsp baking soda ½ t salt 6 oz unsalted butter soft (European gives an even better taste) 1 C light brown sugar packed ½ C white sugar 2 lg eggs at room temp 1.5 tsp vanilla 16+ oz bittersweet or semisweet choc chopped or chocolate chips (recipe calls for 12 oz). 1.5 C lightly toasted pecan pieces - (recipe calls for 1 C) Preheat to 350 Whisk 1st 3 dry ingredients (flour, soda, salt) and set aside Beat butter (lg bowl) at medium until creamy Add sugars, beating until light and fluffy Add eggs and vanilla, beat smooth Mix in dry ingredients Mix in choc and nuts Lay out parchment paper on baking sheet or butter sheet, place dough 1.5” apart – I press the dough down some, but other people wouldn’t. I end up with 3.5" cookies, though they start out smaller than that. Bake 13 minutes for chewy or 11 for soft and chewy or 16 for crisp *These would work well: http://www.amazon.com/Callebaut-Chocolate-Pure-Bittersweet/dp/B000C4MU9I/ref=pd_sim_gro_1"]Callebaut Chocolate - Pure - Bittersweet - 1 kg: Amazon.com: Grocery & Gourmet Food OR trad choc chips
Bluebell makes chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, and it's delicious. only problem-the chocolate chips! theres a new one with cake batter ice cream and sugar cookie chunks, but of course the dough is just not as good.
Sounds downright epic, now that i got my own place I may actually try this as a project one day. Thanks for the recipe I bet they are killer!
