Triple Chocolate Cookies

After numerous requests for homemade cookies from my little honey bees I cooked like Betty Crocker this weekend. Over 15 dozen cookies to be exact, 15 loaves of creamy banana bread and carrot cake and I was also on the quest to come up with a gourmet cookie better than the toll house chocolate chip cookie. Anyway, during my research on whether to use butter or shortening, why I should use salt and how to make a thick gourmet cookie, l I found this awesome recipe for triple chocolate cookies from a website called, expertvillage.com, they promote themselves as the world’s largest how-to video site. It’s pretty cool.  Anyway, I made these cookies below and I read through the transcript and wrote out the directions and sharing them with you. You should check out their website, it’s amazing what’s on there. Enjoy! My friends and family loved them.

TRIPLE CHOCOLATE COOKIES BY COOKIESCOUTURE.COM

Preheat oven to 350* bake cookies for 10-12 minutes

Ingredients:

2 Cups Flour

1 Tsp Baking Soda

1/2 Tsp Salt

1 Cup Softened Butter Room Temp (2 sticks)

3/4 Cup Brown Sugar

3/4 Cup White Sugar

Sugar

2 Eggs

1 Tbsp Vanilla

1/2 Cup Dutch Cocoa

2 Cups Chocolate Chips

Cream the butter and the sugar on Medium speed, cream for about 2 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla and scrap down sides of bowl and give it one more good mix. In a separate bowl mix 2 cups of flour and add 1 teaspoon of baking soda and 1/2 teaspoon of salt and then add 1/2 cup of cocoa. Use a wooden spoon make sure it is dry incorporate all the dry ingredients.

Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Start on low speed so the dry does not fly out the sides. Mix for about 3 minutes. Do not over mix. Stop mixing  then add chocolate chips and mix for about 30 seconds until you see the chips mixed throughout the dough.

Get a scoop and dip in water to prevent sticking and scoop out dough on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Then place in freezer for 5 minutes. This prevents the dough from spreading. Bake for 12 minutes at 350*. Remove from oven and remove parchment paper with cookies off hot pan to a cool surface.