- Today I'm gonna show you how to make
a chocolate lover's dream,
chocolate chocolate chip cookies with toasted pecans
and a little something extra
that I'm not gonna tell you about til later.
If you like my videos, hit that like button and subscribe.
Okay, let's get started.
I'm adding two cups or 240 grams of all purpose flour
into a small bowl.
Just gonna weigh it out.
Perfect.
Now, two thirds of a cup of cocoa powder.
I was gonna sift that out.
Nevermind, it's okay.
All right, half a teaspoon of salt.
Three quarters of a teaspoon of baking powder.
Ahem, I said.
Now let's whisk it together.
Carefully since I used a bowl that's too small.
(laughs)
So chocolatey, so chocolatey.
This is a chocolate lover's cookie.
Okay, set that aside, including the scale.
Now we're gonna cream our butter together.
Into my stand mixer, I'm adding one cup
or 226 grams of unsalted butter at room temperature.
In you go.
No.
(laughs)
Look at me, trying to be a big shot.
Okay, in you go, thank you.
Close it up, cream it up.
(beep)
Plug it in, then cream it up.
(beep)
Cream that butter.
Just cream it right up.
Now we can add in one and a half cups of sugar.
One.
Two.
This guy has to get polished.
Let it beat until it's nice and light and fluffy.
You will notice a difference.
(upbeat instrumental music)
Okay, I think you can tell,
nice, creamy, fluffy, light.
I'm gonna add two eggs in one at a time.
And this recipe, if you're making it at home,
calls for two teaspoons of vanilla extract,
but I have been baking all day,
(laughs)
I spilled my vanilla extract.
There is enough left for this recipe,
but instead I'm gonna use two teaspoons of
orange blossom water because I think that
orange, chocolate, great combination,
I wanna give it a try.
Always be adventurous in baking.
If it makes sense.
All right, one egg.
Two eggs.
Got it in.
Now for the orange blossom water.
This is so fragrant.
I highly recommend it.
Smells so good.
Okay that is fluffed up to heck and back.
I'm just going to,
oh it's so cloudy on the inside.
All this butter is so lightweight
because all the air that got whipped in.
Now it is time for that dry mixture.
So we're gonna add this in while it's mixing on low.
Stay in.
Okay.
Saved it.
Kind of.
Okay, here we go.
This,
yes.
I really like the orange blossom water in here.
You could leave it out if you want.
And if you wanna go crazy, grate some orange zest in here.
Zest of an orange.
You will be in orange chocolate heaven.
Right now I'm adding a
generous half cup of chopped toasted pecans, my favorite.
You could also use walnuts.
You could also omit the nuts all together.
Macadamia nuts, that's an option too.
One cup of semi sweet chocolate chips.
The never ending cup.
And two cups of semi sweet chocolate chips.
Get those all in there.
Again, if you want them to be super chocolatey,
use the full two cups.
If you want more of the cookie, cut it in half.
We're just gonna mix this up by hand.
I wanna remind you to use a metal spatula
when you do this because it will snap the wooden ones.
I've learned the hard way.
(upbeat instrumental music)
Get your exercise in there.
I mean, unfortunately with food blogging
and then the twins, this is all the exercise I get.
Gone, gone are the Los Angeles fancy exercise classes.
That's a memory.
(sighs)
Memories.
All right, that's pretty good.
Oh, this is cookie dough.
This is delicious stuff.
I'm not gonna eat it though.
It's gonna onto a baking sheet
and I will be using a Silpat.
I'm using my trusty one and a half
tablespoon ice cream scoop
to get some nice consistent cookies.
You could use whatever you'd like though.
This is also the neatest way for me
'cause other wise my hands would be
completely covered in cookie batter, cookie dough, yeah.
All right, on you go.
(upbeat instrumental music)
So full of chocolate and nuts.
The nice thing about making your own cookie dough too
is that you can make a batch,
put the rest in the fridge or the freezer,
just make sure it's really well sealed,
and have on demand fresh homemade cookies
whenever you'd like.
(upbeat instrumental music)
These cookies are ready to go into the oven.
However, let me show you a little,
I don't know if it's a food blogger trick
or just like a persnickety person trick,
but if you want them to look a little bit more perfect,
just put a couple chocolate chips on top.
You can imbed them in
so it looks like it happened naturally.
And that way when they bake,
you'll have that nice glossy chocolate chip top
and a little bit more chocolate.
You can do the same things for the pecans too.
Just a couple little pieces of pecan here and there
poking out, not covered by the cookie dough.
They'll look really nice
and show everyone exactly what's inside,
besides butter and sugar.
These'll bake at 350 Fahrenheit
for about eight to 10 minutes.
Just watch them spread.
The edges will set.
The inside'll be kinda gooey still,
so let them set by cooling
Don't lift them up.
Out of the oven, just cool enough to handle
and they smell so good.
I didn't even eat any off camera.
I waited for you.
Okay, I'm gonna choose one of the cookies,
put the rest away for later,
and let's take a look inside.
This is like chocolate fudge basically.
You know I like a burnt cookie but for these guys,
I don't mind them being like so cakey and fudgey.
(laughs)
That's really good.
There's so much chocolate in there.
And the orange comes through
in the last two thirds of the bite.
Oh, that orange is nice.
In fact, if you make this with the orange blossom water,
add some orange zest in too.
You will be in chocolate orange heaven.
Okay, thanks so much for watching.
Hit that like button.
Don't forget to subscribe and bon appetit.