WEEK 19
Your Best Chocolate Cookie
We figured everyone already has a chocolate chip cookie recipe they love, but how about a cookie whose dough is made with chocolate or cocoa? Think sable to biscotti, salt-flecked to rosemary-infused. (This is a special contest in conjunction with the Brooklyn Chocolate Experiment in NYC on Nov. 15 -- we'll have more details soon!)
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Contest Slideshow
Week 19 Finalists: Best Chocolate Cookie Contest
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Now, blame it on the fact that we made these bright and early on Tuesday morning, but this ingredient shot has a few errors: the recipe calls for baking soda, not baking powder, and there isn't any vanilla in these cookies. Luckily, we realized our mistakes before we actually made them!
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Does anyone know a brilliant trick for softening brown sugar?
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Because cocoa powder has a tendency to clump, it helps to sort of cut it across the top, rather than just sweep, otherwise you may lose some of your carefully measured cocoa.
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The key ingredient in this recipe: espresso powder.
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Teamwork.
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This dough has an incredible texture.
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Folding the chips in by hand helps guard against over-mixing.
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Contest Slideshow
Week 19 Finalists: Best Chocolate Cookie Contest
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When mixing dry ingredients, a whisk works best.
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Variations on a color theme.
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While the butter and sugar are creamed -- we let the mixer go for a long time -- we line up the rest of the ingredients.
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We like Nielsen-Massey vanilla extract -- a little more expensive but worth it.
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That's the Skippy peanut butter going into the creamed butter.
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The peanut butter makes the mixture beautifully silky.
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How many cooks does it take to tip the dry ingredients into the mixer?
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Sticky!
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Use a nice coarse sea salt, like fleur de sel or Maldon sea salt, for finishing the cookies.
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All Entries
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Chocolate Cherry Black Pepper Cookies
added by ENunn
over 3 years ago -
Mocha Chocolate Truffle Cookie
added by TheWimpyVegetarian
over 3 years ago -
Triple Chocolate Madness Cookies
added by kapnic
over 3 years ago -
Chewy Chocolate Cookies
added by ecphillips365
over 3 years ago -
Gianduja-Hazelnut Cookies
added by ldanis
over 3 years ago -
a simple cookie recipe
added by Janneke Verheij
over 3 years ago -
Nutty chocolate cookie
added by Janneke Verheij
over 3 years ago -
Chocolate Cookies with Crystallized Grapefruit...
added by MollyMartin
over 3 years ago -
Chewy Chocolate Ginger Macarons with Ginger...
added by WinnieAb
over 3 years ago -
Chocolate-Orange Madeleine Cookies
added by Cordelia
over 3 years ago -
Chocolate Chai Biscotti
added by Loves Food Loves to Eat
over 3 years ago -
Aztec Chocolate Cookies
added by Savour
over 3 years ago
