Double Chocolate Cookies
Sometimes it’s fun to be a cliché. Like when you are feeling especially tender and emotional and decide to put on your pajamas while the sun is still high in the sky and dunk hot, double chocolate cookies in a glass of cold milk while beginning at episode 1 of Sex and the City and vowing to work your way through to the end (even though Carrie’s frizzy brown hair and the way she addresses camera in that first episode never fails to make you cringe). As they say, there’s a reason why a cliché is a cliché, and in my world this holds especially true when it comes to rom-coms and chocolate. In this particular case, the coziness of fresh baked cookies and a nightgown, coupled with a glamorous fantasy life of endless cocktails (but no hangovers), endless shopping (but no buyer’s remorse), and the tidy tying up of loose ends every 26-minutes is a wildly comforting concoction. And the cookies, a little chewy, very chocolatey, really do help.
Double Chocolate Cookies
from Martha Stewart Living
makes 2 dozen
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
1/2 pound good-quality milk chocolate, 4 ounces coarsely chopped and 4 ounces cut into 1/4-inch chunks
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 325° F. Whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt; set aside. Melt 4 ounces coarsely chopped chocolate with the butter in a small heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water; let cool slightly.
Put chocolate mixture, sugar, eggs, and vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer. Mix on medium speed until combined. Reduce speed to low; gradually mix in flour mixture. Fold in chocolate chunks.
Using a 1 1/2-inch ice cream scoop or big spoon, drop dough onto parchment-lined baking sheets, spacing 2 inches apart. Bake until cookies are flat and surfaces crack, about 15 minutes (cookies should be soft). Let cool on parchment on wire racks. Cookies can be stored between layers of parchment in airtight containers at room temperature up to 3 days.
JennyMac: These look perfect. Thanks for the recipe. Looking for something new and fab to make tonight.1 year ago
Lisa (dinner party): Ooh, yum. These kind of look like brownies in cookie form.1 year ago
piper jacquelyn: I want them. I love baking, but I just want to eat one now. And I totally related to your SATC/cookie/fantasty-land-ness. Wow, it is totally awkward when she turns & talks to the camera, huh? Ha!1 year ago
Pomona: Those look absolutely delicious - really chocolatey - I can’t wait to try the recipe out!
Pomona x1 year ago
B.: Sex and the City and double chocolate cookies? Sounds like a glorious day, but the pajamas or nightgown have to be ridiculously luxurious satin.1 year ago
michele rosenthal: the picture is so lovely I believe I can actually smell them in my office now!! I’m off to find chocolate!!1 year ago
Sara Rose: I want these sooo badly but have no ambition to make them. Enjoy a few for me.1 year ago
Kristina: Oh, I know, weren’t the first few episodes of SATC unbearable?1 year ago
zoe: I don’t bake much because I always screw something up and they don’t come out right, but these sound simple enough! Thanks!1 year ago
Karen: Only thing better than chocolate is double chocolate! Thanks for the recipe!1 year ago
Cordelia: Chocolate and nightgowns? You’re awesome. Gotta love tacky narration. Plus, some of Carrie’s outfits were crazy nuts/hilarious. Who really wears shorts that short?1 year ago
Kristina, Your comment really made me laugh out loud. Seriously, those first episodes are so hilariously bad. Especially the first one which is unbearable film noir in this freeze-framed, overly dramatic way. But then the great outfits start rolling in, and Miranda busts out her quips and it’s all good…
And actually, come to think of it, sleepwear and chocolate are really a recurring theme for me…1 year ago
Evon T.: Hiyee…. I’m so glad that I’m a part of the circle again. I had to re-register and can’t wait to start receiving emails like I used to. The cookies do have that brownie look to them. Mmmm. As if I need one more reason to walk around in my pajamas watching cable all day. XOXO.1 year ago
Anne: Yum, those look amazing and the rest of it including the Sex and The City, awesome! I wonder if it would be possible to have a bad day if you started it out in that way?1 year ago
Sam: Hysterical - that whole Carrie-talks-to-camera element was just awful. These cookies on the other hand look wonderful! Cannot wait to give them a try!1 year ago