The folks over at www.kingarthurflour.com/blog/ have the perfect job. See, I’ve been trying to figure out how to make money by baking whatever I want, whenever I want. So far, I haven’t had much luck, but I’m sure enjoying the practice.
Anyway, that blog up there? Well, they’re the source for these cookies. The cookies don’t really have a name, and the recipe (which you’ll find here) is completely open to substitutions. They used different kinds of chocolate chunks. Other people used nuts and/or dried fruit. I used chocolate chips. I thought about throwing some dried cranberries in there, but in the end, I just wanted chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate.
The simple chocolate batter is made up of butter, sugar, baking powder, salt, eggs, vanilla, flour and cocoa powder (they call for Dutch-process cocoa powder, but I just used regular). It all gets mixed up in one bowl, then scooped onto cookie sheets and baked. No resting, no refrigeration. In less then 30 minutes, start to finish, you too can be enjoying warm chocolate cookies with a glass of cold milk.
The texture of these cookies is somewhere between a cookie and a brownie. They don’t spread out at all, and you have to be careful not to over bake them, or they’ll turn out dry. And that would be a shame.
Now go make these.