Chocolate Cookies Recipes

Deep Dark Chocolate Fudge Cookies

      7 oz semi-sweet chocolate
  2 1/2 oz unsweetened chocolate
      3 tb unsalted butter
      1 c  sugar
      3 ea eggs
  1 1/2 ts strong brewed coffee
    3/4 ts vanilla
    3/4 c  flour
    1/2 ts baking powder
    1/4 ts salt
      4 oz chocolate, chopped
    3/4 c  chopped pecans
 
Melt 7 ounces semi-sweet chocolate, unsweetened chocolate, and butter in the top of a double boiler; set aside.

In a mixing bowl, beat sugar and eggs together until lemon colored; mix in coffee and vanilla. Gradually add flour, baking powder, and salt; mix well. Stir in 4 ounces chopped semi-sweet chocolate and pecans.

Bake at 350 degrees about 12 minutes until tops are shiny and cracked and cookies are soft to touch. Cool several minutes and remove to wire racks.

Chocolate Chubbies
 
      8 oz Semisweet Chocolate (8
           -Squares)
      3 oz Unsweetened Chocolate (3
           -Squares)
    1/2 c  Unsalted Butter
      3 lg Eggs, At Room Temperature
  1 1/4 c  Sugar
      2 ts Vanilla Extract
    2/3 c  Unbleached All Purpose Flour
    1/2 ts Baking Powder
    1/4 ts Salt
  1 1/2 c  Semisweet Chocolate Chips
  1 1/2 c  Toasted Walnuts, Chopped
  1 1/2 c  Toasted Pecans, Chopped
 
  Yield: 25 Large Cookies
 
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. and grease 3 cookie sheets.
 
Melt the chocolate with the butter in a double boiler over simmering water. Cool to room temperature.
 
Beat the eggs with the sugar in a mixer bowl until a ribbon forms when the beaters are lifted, about 10 minutes.

Beat in the chocolate mixture and vanilla.

Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl and stir into the chocolate mixture just until combined (do not overmix!!!) Stir in the chocolate chips and nuts. Drop batter by quarter cupfuls 2 inches apart onto the prepared cookies sheets (do not Flatten).

Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until barely firm and tops are just dry and slightly cracked.

Cool on the cookie sheest for 2 minutes and then gently transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies
 
  2 1/4 c  Unsifted Unbleached Flour
      1 ts Baking Soda
      1 c  Butter Or Margarine,
           -Softened
    1/4 c  Granulated Sugar
    3/4 c  Firmly Packed Light Brown
           -Sugar
      1 ts Vanilla
      1 pk (4 Serving Size) Chocolate
           -Flavor Instant Pudding
      2    Eggs
     12 oz Package Chocolate Chips
      1 c  Chopped Nuts
 
Yield: About 7 dozen
 
Mix the flour and baking soda together and set aside.

Combine the butter, the sugars, the vanilla, and pudding mix in a large mixer bowl then beat until smooth and creamy. Beat in the eggs. Gradually add the flour mixture, then stir in the chips and nuts. Batter will be stiff.

Drop by rounded measuring Teaspoonfuls, about 2 inches apart, onto an ungreased baking sheet.

Bake in a preheated 375 degree F oven for 8 to 10 minutes.

Grandma's Chocolate Cookies
 
      1 c  Brown sugar
    1/2 c  Butter or margarine
      1    Egg
    1/2 c  Cocoa
  1 1/2 c  Flour
    1/2 ts Baking soda
    1/2 c  Milk
      1 ts Vanilla
    1/2 c  Chopped walnuts
Chocolate Icing:
      1 c  Confectioners sugar
      2 tb Cocoa
    1/2 ts Vanilla
      2 tb Butter
           Milk
 
Preheat oven to 350ø.
 
In a large bowl, combine brown sugar and butter; mix well. Beat egg and add to creamed mixture; mix well. Add cocoa and mix.
 
In a separate bowl, measure flour and baking soda. Add dry ingredients alternately with milk to egg and cocoa mixture. Stir in vanilla and chopped nuts.

Drop by teaspoonfuls onto a cookie sheet and bake at 350ø for 10-12 minutes. Remove to wire racks and let cool.
 
While cookies are baking, make the chocolate icing.
  

Chocolate Icing:

Mix together the confectioners sugar, cocoa, vanilla and butter. Thin with a little milk if the icing is too thick.

When cookies have cooled, frost with chocolate icing.

Doubly Chocolate Cookies
 
      1 c  Butter, softened
  1 1/2 c  Sugar
      2    Eggs
      2 ts Vanilla
      2 c  All-purpose flour
    2/3 c  Cocoa powder
    3/4 ts Baking soda
    1/4 ts Salt
      2 c  Semi-sweet chocolate chips
    1/2 c  Chopped nuts (optional)
 
Heat oven to 350F.

In large mixer bowl, beat butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla until light and fluffy.

Stir together flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; add to butter mixture. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts, if desired.

Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.

Bake 8 to 10 minutes or just until set. Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely.

Makes about 4 1/2 dozen cookies.