Ingredients:
7 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
5 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
1/2 cup butter
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar (we used 3/4 cup coconut sugar)
4 eggs
1 recipe chocolate drizzle
Instructions:
1. In a saucepan combine the 7 ounces bittersweet chocolate, the 5 ounces unsweetened chocolate, and 1/2 cup butter.
2. On low heat, stir until melted.
3. Remove from heat and let cool for 10 minutes.
4. In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, and salt. set aside.
5. In a large mixing bowl, combine the 1 cup sugar and 3/4 cup brown sugar (or coconut sugar in our case) and the 4 eggs.
6. Beat the sugar and eggs for 1 minute with electric mixer for 2-3 minutes on medium.
7. Beat in the chocolate mixture.
8. Cover surface of cookie dough with plastic wrap for 20 minutes.
9. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
10. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
11. Drop dough by teaspoons onto parchment paper - 2 inches apart.
12. Bake about 9 minutes or until tops are set.
13. Cool on cookie sheet for 1 minute, then transfer to wire racks to let cool.
14. Spoon chocolate drizzle over the cookies.
15. Enjoy.
Instructions for chocolate drizzle:
1. In a small sacue pan heat 1 cup semisweet chocolate pieces with 4 teaspoons butter over low heat until melted and smooth.
2. Remove from heat.
Mark's Story -
It is March 2020. All home from school due to coronovirus. I was watching Star Trek. Then a cookbook is placed right in front of my face opened to this recipe. Miriam told me she wanted to help me make these cookies. So, the next day, after I completed working from home, Miriam and I made these cookies.
Mistakes we made - I made quite a few mistakes with this first attempt at these cookies but it still turned out well.
We had purchased packages of the baking chocolates required. We start making it, and I realize that one package was only 4 ounces. I went to Meijer and bought more packages so that Miriam and I could make these.
We skipped right over step number 8. In the cookbook, everything is mushed together in paragraphs and we missed this step. We just started placing the dough on the cookie sheets after mixing. We only had 2 cookie sheets at a time, so the next several batches did have a chance to set longer.
Then I read in the origianal recipe that this was supposed to make like 60 cookies. We made maybe 25-30. We did not use teaspoons. We used more like a tablespoon.
The chocolate drizzle - I was trying to multi-task and clean while the chocolate drizzle was melting. I ended up slightly burning some of it. I added more butter to smooth it out. It wasn't badly and was salvageable. We used it and was a fine. A professional baker would have been able to tell the drizzle was "overdone".
Psalm 107:1 (NASB)
"O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His loving-kindness is everlasting."
