Ultimate Double Chocolate Cookies
PUBLISHED ON: 09.24.2024
I find a sense of Zen as I flip through my recipe notebooks, filled with thirty years worth of handwritten notes, magazine clippings, and typed recipes from the early PC days. Some recipes are familiar favorites, and other recipes which can best be described as a fleeting moment of inspiration.
This recipe was torn out of an All-Recipes magazine back in 2015 in a fleeting moment of inspiration. In September 2024, this recipe is plucked out of the notebook and with the magic of a turtle magnet adhered securely to my refrigerator door. I am ready.
These chocolate cookies are outrageously delicious. The cookies are soft and chewy with a double dose of chocolate goodness. Surprisingly easy to make and you can make an extra batch to freeze. The frozen dough will go directly from freezer to oven.
Ingredients:
1/2 pound semi-sweet chocolate, chopped
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup Dutch process cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
5 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon instant coffee-granules
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions:
Melt chocolate in a double boiler or in a microwave, stirring occasionally until smooth. Sift together flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.
Beat butter with brown sugar and white sugar in a bowl until light and fluffy. beat in eggs 1 at a time, then stir in coffee granules and vanilla until well blended. Stir in melted chocolate. Add flour mixture and stir with a wooden spoon until just combined. Cover, and let stand 35 minutes so chocolate can set up.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (176 C). Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper. Drop rounded tablespoons of dough onto prepared sheets, spacing 2 -inches apart.
Bake until cookie edges are set but centers are still very soft 10-12 minutes. Cool on baking sheets 10 minutes, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
Note: You can make the dough now, and bake the cookies later. Just freeze the dough balls on a cookie sheet, transfer to a freezer bag, and freeze up to 3 months. They can go straight from freezer to oven.
angiesrecipes
I always love the pairing of chocolate and coffee..these cookies look really tempting.
JOUMANA ACCAD
Very very tempted!
Pauline
These look really delicious, they would smell amazing straight out of the oven. How wonderful to have all of your cooking notes over the years to draw on.
Eva Taylor
Wow, these certainly sound incredibly delicious and so packed with chocolatey goodness! I love that they can be frozen and baked as required, helps keep them in check.
Larry
I don’t eat a lot of sweets but chocolate is a weakness and double chocolate really gets my attention. The cookies look delicious but I’d have to add some nuts.
Judee
They do look fabulous with chocolate and coffee.. I used to love looking through magazines for recipes. It was so relaxing. Now, its the Internet …not as relaxing
sherry
yes a wee bit of coffee really adds to the flavour. I too have many many recipes cut from magazines! And I still have not made many of them … one day …
cheers
sherry
jeanie
Soft and chewy, easy to freeze. I’m not sure it gets much better than this! And they look fantastic on top of it all. A keeper!
Jamie
Just made these! Delicious!
Velva Knapp
Jamie, this makes me smile. Glad you enjoyed the cookies!
Susan
Oh my! They look so delicious! I have a stack of clipped magazine recipes that I have to try and organice some time this winter – LOL.
Karen (Back Road Journal)
Double chocolate can only mean one thing, they are doubly delicious. Thanks for sharing the yummy recipe.
Ben | Havocinthekitchen
The more chocolate, the better, and these cookies look great and so tempting! Loving their rustic exterior and the addition of coffee.
Freda
I look forward to trying this recipe and sharing it with my family.
David Scott Allen
I am definitely making these soon! They sound incredibly good.
I was looking through one of my recipe books the other day — it brought back so many memories. It seems that almost every recipe has a story. I love that.
Jeff the Chef
These look like very interesting cookies. Thanks for the recipe!
Diane
These sound delightful! I make a double chocolate chip cookie and it is made with brownie mix plus other ingredients. I like this recipe because I don’t need the brownie mix! Thank you for sharing your recipe!
2pots2cook
Hm,… my holidays’ cookie list just got another chocolate beauty to make!
Frank | Memorie di Angelina
Double chocolate? Now that’s right up my alley. :=)
Valentina
With “double” and “chocolate” in the title, I’m in! Seriously, this recipe is calling to me. I love going through old recipes, recipe notes, clippings, etc. Brings back delicious food memories and it’s always inspiring. 🙂 ~Valentina
Marcelle
I have a rather extensive cookbook collection that is littered with page-saving sticky notes as well as composition books and binders filled with notes and clippings. I relate to this post very much. Looking through them give me a sense of Zen also and it’s triggers so many memories. That’s a great way to put that feeling into words. If you know, you know 🙂 I love chocolate and coffee paired together, these double chocolate cookies are right up my alley. Delicious!!