Hey everybody. It's Sam here from SugarSpunRun.com, and today I'm showing you how to make the ultimate chocolate cookies.
If you're a chocolate lover like I am, you are going to absolutely love these ultimate chocolate cookies. They
are loaded with not only cocoa powder, but three different kinds of chocolate
chips, and then they are rolled in a cocoa sugar mixture. I think you guys are
going to love these. So let's get started. Now the first thing you're going to need
is one cup of unsalted butter, and as you can see I've gone ahead and melted this.
You want to melt your butter. So my butter has actually been cooling for
about ten minutes or so. Now as you can see it's losing that translucent color
that it gets when it's too hot. So now I'm going to add one and 1/4 cups of tightly packed light brown sugar.
We'll also add 1/2 cup of granulated sugar,
and just use a spoon or spatula to stir these together until completely combined.
Next we'll add our eggs, and you are going to need one large egg plus one
large egg yolk for this recipe. Now this extra yolk really helps make these
cookies nice and chewy and fudgy. I'll also add one and a half teaspoons of
pure vanilla extract and then just stir everything together.
Now we're going to need a separate bowl for our dry ingredients. You're going to need two and
1/4 cups of all purpose flour. Put this in a separate bowl, and one of my
favorite ingredients in these ultimate chocolate cookies is, I like to add just
a 1/2 teaspoon of instant coffee. Now this is optional, but adding this instant
coffee, what it's going to do is it's really going to accentuate that
chocolate flavor. It's going to bring out a great flavor in these cookies. It's not
going to make your cookies taste like coffee. Another key ingredient that I use
in so many of my cookies recipes is one teaspoon of corn starch. Now the corn
starch is just going to help keep our cookies from spreading too much. It's
gonna keep them nice and thick and chewy. So you'll definitely want to use that.
You'll also need one teaspoon of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of baking soda and 3/4 teaspoon of salt.
And I almost forgot potentially our most important
ingredient, and that's 1/2 cup of natural cocoa powder so we'll stir this in with our dry ingredients.
So now that we have all of our dry ingredients combined,
we're going to bring back our wet ingredients that we just prepared, and
we're going to gradually add the dry ingredients until completely combined.
I'll switch over to mixing with my spatula. It's just to make it a little bit easier for me.
Now we are going to add our chocolate chips. So I'm going to be using three different types of chocolate chips
in these ultimate chocolate cookies. So I'm going to start with a half cup of milk
chocolate chips. A half cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips, and I'm using all
Ghirardelli chocolate chips and I'm just telling you that because in case you're
wondering why the chocolate chips are so big that's why it's just because of the brand.
And I'm also using 1/2 cup of mini chocolate chips.
now you only need 1/2 cup of each chocolate chip in the batter, but as you might see here I've actually
reserved an additional 1/2 cup of chocolate chips, and this is a blend of
all three of those chocolate chips. These are going to come into play after we've
baked our cookies. So measure them out and set them aside. Now we're just going
to stir our chocolate chips into our batter.
And this is a very thick batter. It's supposed to be.
For best results, we will want to chill our cookie dough for 30 minutes. Now you'll want to cover your bowl before chilling.
I usually cover mine with plastic wrap, but I'm actually out today so I'm just covering mine with foil.
About 15 minutes before our dough has finished chilling,
we're going to want to preheat our oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. So my oven is
actually already preheated, and this dough has finished chilling, so what I'm
going to do now is I'm going to make my cocoa sugar mixture. So to make this
mixture what you're going to need is a 1/2 cup of granulated sugar, and 1
tablespoon of natural cocoa powder. I'm just going to combine these together in a bowl.
And just use a spoon to stir it together so that cocoa powder is nicely
incorporated in with that granulated sugar. Smells so good now we can go ahead
and scoop our cookie dough. Now I'm going to be using a 1 and 1/2 tablespoon size
cookie scoop and I'll link to that in the description below. I'm just gonna scoop my cookie dough.
I'll roll it between my palms so we have a nice chocolate cookie ball.
And then roll this through the granulated, cocoa sugar mixture.
Now we'll transfer our cookie dough to our 350 degrees Fahrenheit
preheated oven where it will bake for 11 to 12 minutes.
Now as soon as these cookies come out of the oven, you have about a minute to add additional
chocolate chips. Remember that 1/2 cup of assorted
chocolate chips we saved from earlier, what we're going to do is we're going to
take them and just gently nestle them onto the top of each cookie.
This step is optional, but I really love the extra chocolate plus it makes them look very nice.
One final thing that I love doing with these chocolate cookies is, I like
to take some sea salt and just sprinkle that over each cookie. That slightly
salty flavor mixed with the cocoa sugar, and the sweetness, and the chocolate. It tastes so good
That is how you make the ultimate chocolate cookies. I really
think all you chocolate lovers out there are going to love today's recipe.
If you try this one out, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think.
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