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TOTALLY CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Along with chocolate, there is much comfort to be gleaned from reading cookbooks. This recipe combines two loves by being chocolatey to the point of madness and having revealed itself to me after a cosy, snuggled-down read of Elinor Klivans' glorious Big Fat Cookies. What I do is make up the full batch of these (hard to divide it really, since it contains only 1 egg) and form all 12 cookies, but bake only half and freeze the other half. I freeze them on a little tray and, once they're hard, I bung them in a freezer bag, seal it and stash it back in the freeze, to bake them unthawed at a later date. That way, I've got 6 chocolate cookies to keep me and my family happy without any time or effort.

This is what I call an investment. And it's worth it - these are the chocolatiest cookies you will ever come across.

Recipe posted by Nigella

Ingredients

  • Express Recipe
  • Nigella Recipe
  • Vegetarian
  • 125g dark chocolate, minimum 70% cocoa solids
  • 150g flour
  • 30g cocoa, sieved
  • 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 125g soft butter
  • 75g light brown sugar
  • 50g white sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 egg, cold from the fridge
  • 350g (2 bags) semi-sweet chocolate morsels or dark chocolate chips

Method

Serves: Makes 12
  1. Preheat the oven to 170°C/gas mark 3. Melt the 125g dark chocolate either in the microwave or in a heatproof dish over a pan of simmering water.
  2. Put the flour, cocoa, bicarbonate of soda and salt into a bowl.
  3. Cream the butter and sugars in another bowl. (I use my freestanding mixer, itself an odd source of comfort to me.) Add the melted chocolate and mix together.
  4. Beat in the vanilla extract and cold egg, and then mix in the dry ingredients. Finally stir in the chocolate morsels or chips.
  5. Scoop out 12 equal-sized mounds - an ice cream scoop and a palette knife are the best tools for the job - and place on a lined baking sheet about 6cm apart. Do not flatten them.
  6. Cook for 18 minutes, testing with a cake tester to make sure it comes out semi-clean and not wet with cake batter. If you pierce a chocolate chip, try again.
  7. Leave to cool slightly on the baking sheet for 4-5 minutes, then transfer them to a cooling rack to harden as they cool.
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  • Yummy! I'm going to make them today can't wait for all that chocolate.

    Posted by Aimee_Starrs on 22nd Apr 2011 at 11.25

  • I used this recipe to make the cookies. They turned out perfectly :) This is the first time I've made cookies in my life and wanted to make chocolate chip cookies because I love them and also had chocolate chips at home. I choose this recipe over the other ones available on the net because these this recipe was for double chocolate chip cookies and also because Nigella had recommended it!

    Posted by Surabhi on 5th Jun 2011 at 18.21

  • AMAZING.

    Posted by rachel92 on 14th Jun 2011 at 14.07

  • oh my good Lord, I just tried this recipe...look and taste nothing short of perfection..A MUST TRY!! Truly a comfort and a treat!!

    Posted by nads00 on 27th Jun 2011 at 2.32

  • This was the best cookies i have ever cooked or even ate. thanks to nigella!!!!

    Posted by ilu on 14th Jul 2011 at 11.37

  • OMG i tried making these and they came out heavenly

    Posted by lakshan js on 6th Aug 2011 at 18.18

  • Love, love, love these. The chocoliest chocolate cookies ever!

    Posted by sally176 on 25th Aug 2011 at 15.29

  • these are superb! and the smell while these are baking is just heavenly. I lessened the sugar though, and added walnuts in, but I'm definitely baking these again. Thanks so much.

    Posted by jnicholas on 26th Aug 2011 at 12.26

  • Just made these! They were nothing short of SENSATIONAL!!!!! absolutely delicious, and by far the best cookie recipe i've ever used! i added a few handfuls of shredded coconut and a few bunches of almonds, and some white chocolate chips!! so goood! can't wait to try other combinations! these will not last very long :D

    Posted by jen92 on 29th Sep 2011 at 8.41

  • is it plain flour or self raising she uses? Also are they very dark chocolaty or would someone who prefers milk chocolate like them too??

    Posted by angeljaide on 30th Sep 2011 at 18.19

  • These sound and look delicious. Seem pretty easy to make, can't wait to try them out tomorrow :).

    Posted by EllisLouise on 4th Oct 2011 at 19.01

  • I baked these for a friend's party and they came out sooooo good! I wasn't sure how much they would spread so I pre-tested a batch of 3 instead of 6- luckily I did it cause they spread and no way would I have gotten nice, rounded cookies if I had put 6! But the recipe is a winner because the cookies tasted divine and looked exactly like the one in the picture!:)))

    Posted by Eltaria on 5th Oct 2011 at 9.48

  • ATTENTION!! THERE IS A MAJOR PROBLEM WITH THIS RECIPE!! It is that no reasonable human being can resist eating the batter uncooked!! :) Seriously, these cookies are brilliant. They're so yummy. i've never been able to nail cookies - the perfect cookie has always eluded me - until now. I think the secret is the simplicity of the recipe!! And for Christmas time, I'll be adding a teaspoon of Allspice to the mixture... :)

    Posted by Alice206 on 18th Oct 2011 at 15.32

  • Tried these cookies.....and have not stopped making them!!! Gifted these to friends and family for Diwali recently instead of the normal Indian Sweets and they loved it! Thank you Nigella! What i wanted to know was...can we do these without the egg?

    Posted by Rashul on 27th Oct 2011 at 15.02

  • my family love these cookies i have to restrict to making them once a week.the chocolate chips are easy to obtain i order them from a amercan shop in catterick.fantastick recipie

    Posted by absence on 17th Nov 2011 at 10.21

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