Double Ghiradelli Chocolate Chip Cookies

I found this Triple Chocolate Cooke recipe at For The Love of Cooking blog about a year ago.  I fell in love with these cookies, believing they are the best chocolate cookies ever.  The recipe has been listed in my shared favorites all along, but I decided to go ahead and post it to my blog giving the link and credit to the original recipe.  I title mine as only double chocolate because I only use two kinds of chips, but everything else is the same.  Also, I truly believe it makes a difference using the Ghiradelli chips!

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies: 

• 1 cup of butter, softned
• 1 cup of white sugar
• 1/2 cup of packed brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp of vanilla
• 2 cups of flour
• 1/2 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 cup Ghiradelli Milk Chocolate Chips
• 1 cup Ghiradelli semi sweet chocolate chips

 

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with a silpat mat.

Beat together the butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until creamy. Add the vanilla and one egg at a time until well beaten.

Combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt then mix thoroughly. Slowly add the flour mixture to the butter mixture until just combined. Add the chocolate chips and gently stir until evenly mixed. Drop a heaping spoonful of the cookie dough on the baking sheet, two inches apart.

 

Bake the cookies for 9-11 minutes, it will depend on how big you make them. Cool on baking trays before moving to a rack to finish cooling. Enjoy.

I also bake these for Christmas goodies to give away as gifts!

Christmas M&M Cookies

I actually had a little bit of spare time today, and what did I find myself wanting to do?  There is just that love for cooking that has me wanting to bake!   Just some cookies I saw on foodgawker and knew the kids would love them.  So it was time time to whip them up on a whim, and they were easy, fast, and yummy!

Christmas M&M Cookies
Yields about 1 1/2 dozen

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp cornstarch
3/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup salted butter, chilled and diced into cubes (about 1/2-inch)
1 cup packed light-brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2  large egg
3 tsp vanilla extract
1 (11 oz) bag M&M's


Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda and salt, set aside. 

In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment, blend together butter and sugar on low speed until it starts to come together then increase mixer to medium speed and whip until creamy, about 3 - 4 minutes. Mix in egg and egg yolk. Stir in vanilla.  With mixer set on low speed, slowly add in dry ingredients and mix just until combine (batter will be thick due to the chilled butter). Mix in M&M's (I set aside about 1/4 cup of the M&M's to lightly press into the tops of cookies before baking so they show through more, totally optional). 

Scoop dough out 2 Tbsp at a time and shape into a ball, place on nonstick cookie sheet  - fitting 8 per sheet.  Bake in preheated oven 10-12 minutes until edges are lightly golden. Allow to cool on baking sheet several minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool. Store in an airtight container.