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April 26, 2011 By Jodi

My Love For Cookies… Better Yet Chocolate Cookies.

Well it’s the week after Easter and believe it or not I am craving CHOCOLATE!! I think I may be had 6 little eggs? This year we kept the kids chocolate to a minimum, and so did the Grandparents who were visiting. I was so glad too! Between the later nights  and extra fun, an extra dose of chocolate on their part or my part would have done no one good. The holidays just seem to make everyone feel like they need to gobble up everything, as well as buy every kind of candy out there. Recently Darryl informed me that Health Canada planned on lowering our children’s activity levels because children weren’t meeting the standards. They wonder why child obesity is on the rise?  Hmmmmm… that sounds smart doesn’t it? Don’t quote me on this info either, it’s just something that Darryl said in passing.

I truly belive in a 90% complete whole diet that is low in sugars and the consumption of whole ingredients. BUT….. 10% of the time we enjoy treats like these.  I hope you try them as they are definitely worth your time! Or if you did over consume on the chocolate this past weekend, then may be you should wait to make them.

So this craving brings me to my post today. My love for cookies is crazy. I love cookies, so much but I find I don’t bake them very often. I’m still working on that control issue. Even if there are healthy cookies around and I eat 3 or 4. What good is that?  I might as well have made ooey, gooey chocolate cookies and ate 1 or 2 of these instead.  The other day after a trip to our bakery so that my son could get a cookie (most bakery’s in our area hand out free cookies to kids) I said to myself. “Self, I think today you should make some cookies”. I didn’t argue with myself and out came out a recipe that I really enjoy and so does my family when I make them. I snapped some quick photos of them for you to see.  I usually make really big cookies, but that day I kept them to a normal size. What is really a normal size, it depends on who you ask?

 

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies  (Barefoot Contessa)

(Editor’s note:  I have since learned of the devastating news that Barefoot Contessa  has declined to work with “make a wish foundation”. I am deeply disapointed in this story and her, but regardless I am still keeping the recipe up, as it is still a great recipe to try. )

Ingredients

  • 1/2 pound unsalted butte,r at room temperature
  • 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 2 extra-large eggs at room temperature
  • 2/3 cup good unsweetened cocoa
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1 1/2 pounds good white chocolate, coarsely chopped

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Cream the butter and both sugars until light and fluffy in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add the vanilla, then the eggs, 1 at a time, and mix well. Add the cocoa and mix again. Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt and add to the chocolate with the mixer on low-speed until just combined. Fold in the chopped white chocolate.

Drop the dough on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, using a 1 3/4-inch ice cream scoop or a rounded tablespoon. Dampen your hands and flatten the dough slightly. Bake for exactly 15 minutes (the cookies will seem underdone). Remove from the oven and let cool slightly on the pan, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

 

Enjoy!

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  1. carol@thedesignpages says

    April 28, 2011 at 12:31 pm

    Those look great. I’ll have to save the recipe because I know my kids would love them! Luckily for me I don’t have any sugar addiction but I do love anything salty so unfortunately for everyone else, no chips can come home from the grocery store:)

  2. monica says

    April 28, 2011 at 6:49 pm

    yummy……………if you have too many left-over and your scared to eat them all, i can help take a few off your hands! hehehehehe

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