Going to the Chapel - Triple Chocolate Cookies

I love cookies. Just the word "cookie" brings a smile to my face like a giddy little sugar obsessed Augustus Gloop-like kid. Seriously, whenever my family senses that I'm getting grumpy, they immediately find me a cookie...they don't even ask if I want one anymore because the answer is certainly yes. And yes, I'm 30 years old, but that doesn't change how at peace eating a cookie makes me feel. I suppose cookies are my drug of choice. The thing is, I also have this side brownie habit that's tough to shake.

Which brings me to this week's baked good...Triple Chocolate Cookies from an old Bon Appetit. These delectable cookies are the heavenly marriage of my beloved cookie and brownie. In fact, this union resulted in a marriage proposal from one of my co-workers who was fortunate enough to try one. The batter is extremely similar to a brownie batter and prepared in much the same way. The difference is largely that the cookies have far less butter than your average brownie (so I guess they're healthier...or maybe that's just wishful thinking?!). Regardless, the outcome is a moist, fudgy cookie with a thin crispy sugar crust that cracks (no drug reference intended) like a brownie when you bite into it.

The recipe begins with melting 10oz of chocolate...how could it ever go wrong?! Then there's the typical butter sugar creaming, the addition of the eggs, and the addition of the sifted flour, leaveners, and cocoa powder. Then comes the chocolate chips, which I think make these cookies. Next time, I might do a little white chocolate/regular chocolate chip combination to see how one more component in this marriage works out.

My kind of recipe...Starting with melted chocolate

Those crazy kids over at bon appetit suggest scooping a 1/4 cup of batter onto the cookie sheet for each cookie, but even I thought that was a tad on the gluttonous side. Instead, I used my typical 1 tbsp cookie scoop but heaped a little extra batter into it than usual. This resulted in the cookies only needing 12 minutes to cook.

Marriage on a Platter

And people complain that marriage is tough!