Recipe Description
Delicately crisp on the outside and chewy tender on the inside, these chocolate cookies are bound to please any chocoholic. They´re adapted from the cookies at Andrei´s Restaurant in Irvine, California. Los Angeles Times/McClatchy-Tribune Information Services
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Recipe Ingredient
- 3¾ cups chopped bittersweet chocolate, divided
- 6 tbsp unsalted butter
- 6 tbsp flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 5 eggs
- 1¾ cups sugar
- 3 tbsp prepared espresso
- 1 tsp vanilla paste or extract
Instructions
- Using a double boiler, or in a bowl set over a pot of simmering water, combine 1¾ cups chopped chocolate with the butter and stir until melted. Set aside to cool. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt.
- Using a stand mixer, or in a mixing bowl using an electric mixer, whip the eggs and sugar to the "ribbon" stage (the eggs will puff and lighten in colour, and when the beater is removed, the beaten eggs and sugar form a slowly disappearing "ribbon" over the surface of the eggs in the bowl), 8-10 minutes.
- Slowly add the espresso and vanilla, then the melted chocolate. Gently fold in the remaining 2 cups chopped chocolate.
- Chill the mixture until it is firm enough to scoop, at least 1 hour.
- Shortly before baking, heat the oven to 170°C. Scoop about 2 tablespoons worth of dough to form each cookie and place on a parchment-lined doubled baking sheet (the extra pan will help to keep the cookies from burning). Bake until the top of the cookie is crisp and shiny, about 20 minutes, rotating halfway through. The cookies will still be soft as they come out of the oven but will firm up as they cool.
- Place the cookies, still on parchment, on a rack until fully cooled.
