Eye Candy Friday 2/29/08

Here is my own recipe for a cookie which I developed and perfected over the years. It has an option for extra chocolate, something I most always add.

Double Chocolate Mocha Cookies

1 cup butter, softened

1 egg

2 tea vanilla extract

3/4 cup brown sugar

3/4 cup granulated sugar

3 T instant espresso powder

2 cups all purpose flour

1 tea baking soda

1/2 tea salt

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (optional)

2 cups semisweet chocolate chunks

1 cup walnuts or pecans

1 cup crushed chocolate toffee bars (optional)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.  Sift together flour, baking soda, salt, and coco powder.  In another bowl, cream butter with sugars; add egg and vanilla extract.  Add dry ingredients; do not over mix.  Fold in chocolate, nuts, and toffee bits.  Place heaping tablespoonful onto ungreased cookie sheet (I use a scoop for real large cookies).  Bake for 11 minutes, or until golden brown.  When you take them out of the oven, quickly scrunch edges of cookies inward to make them chunky looking. Cool on cookie sheet, then transfer to cooling rack.  YUM!

(The picture shows a version without the unsweetened chocolate powder.  I had to take a picture, as I rarely make it that way)

Comments

[SK]

Yum! I wish I know how to bake.

[Marie]

OMG, I'm drooling now. I did not need to see this, I virtually ate all the cookies in that photo, lol. I pretty much have all the ingredients except for the cocoa powder & baking chocolate (I have to figure out where to get this stuff in my new city). Is the instant espresso powder the stuff you find in the coffee aisle at the supermarket? Or something more specialized?

Sigh, it'll be a little while until we can use our oven again. We messed it up by putting foil at the bottom, which "melted" into the bottom of the oven. The heating element is sealed underneath that bottom metal section (advertised as easy to clean), who woulda guessed that it got hot enough to melt aluminum foil, lol. I need to figure out how to get that stuff off the bottom of my oven. :-(

[bets]

These look yummy. I am laughing my butt off at you, because I owned your pillowcases in the previous post. I bought them from Spiegel in about 1990. And so did you!

HAHAH

[Daryl]

Trish, these cookies look fantastic!. DD is making treats all this week. In true Roman tradtion they have to bribe the Seniors so that their Latin History team wins the debate over Pompey's motives on Classics Day. I have a feeling this recipe will move to the top of the bribe list. Thanks for sharing.