Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
These are total cookie perfection. A chocolate lovers dream and a high altitude bakers best friend, this is a fool proof, tried-and-true recipe for the ultimate Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies. Every time I make them, I eat way too many and the lucky few that get to try them as well bow to my feet.
These are the the ultimate chocolate cookie. Crunchy exterior, chewy inside and studded with white, milk and dark chocolate chips. This is an old recipe that I tweaked just a bit. I rephotographed them (because the old photos make me cringe) and I couldn’t not share this recipe with you guys. If you like chocolate then listen up- you must make these. I’ve made them twice in the last few weeks to rave reviews both times. I had to give most of them away because I couldn’t stop eating them myself. As much as I tried to convince myself that cookies are indeed a breakfast food and it’s totally ok to eat 3 before my morning workout, my increasingly tight yoga pants told me otherwise.
A homemade cookie is hard to beat which is why I almost always have some sort of homemade cookies on hand. And most often they live in a ziplock on the inside door of my freezer. Every few weeks I whip up a batch of whatever cookies I’m craving, eat way too many warm from the oven and then freeze the rest to pull out when I need a sweet fix. Which depending on my stress level could mean one cookie every few days or 3 cookies before my 8:30 am workout class and another 3 cookies after. Oh how I wish I was kidding.
These cookies have graced my cooling rack twice last month- once to photograph for the blog and the other with the intention of giving them away. Some to the kind man who helped me design my kitchen (who also happens to have a wicked sweet tooth) and to the folks that take our sweet Nacho once or twice a week for doggy daycare. Both went above and beyond this past month to help me out and the best way I know how to say thank you to someone is to cook for them. When I don’t know you that well, homemade cookies are my go to. Because these cookies were so damn ridiculously good, I had to give both recipients heaping plates of cookies. I realized I have zero self control when these chocolate bad boys are sitting on my counter. Or hiding in my freezer for that matter.
So as much as I’d like to lobby that cookies make great pre workout food, I’m going to stick to giving them out as thank you’s instead. My acid reflux likes it better that way.
PrintChocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Yield: 36 cookies 1x
Ingredients
- 2 cups cups all purpose flour
- 1 1/4 cups cocoa powder
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
- coarse sea salt, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
- In a medium bowl, combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream the softened butter, brown sugar and white sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition. Add vanilla extract and mix well. Gradually add in the flour/cocoa mixture and stir just until combined. Fold in chocolate chips.
- Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto prepared (either greased or parchment lined) cookie sheet. Sprinkle with a pinch of sea salt if desired. Bake for 10 minutes until cookies are fluffy but still soft. Remove cookies from tray and place on cooling rack to cool completely.
23 Comments
I love a good chocolate cookie! And my cookie baking in Moab has proved a little difficult. It’s like the altitude makes more of a difference here than it did in SLC (even though it’s about the same). Weird. Anyway, I think I better give this recipe a try!
These sound wonderful and worth the risk of tighter pants! I am sure that the cocoa powder you use makes a big difference in the result. May I ask what brand you use for this recipe?
I use Equal Exchange cocoa powder.
Just ordered some, can’t wait to try it. Figured I had better do it now or I would procrastinate right into forgetting!
Thank you!
Have made these twice now. Came out perfect in Denver. I used a good quality bulk white and dark chocolates so took longer for chocolate to set up into scrumptious puddles. Also used Nestles semi-sweet chunks. 10 minutes. My grandson said they tasted like brownies. We love them. What a treat to find a new perfect cookie. Thanks.
Yeah! I LOVE these cookies and agree with your nephew…they DO taste like brownies.
So I’ve kind of adapted this recipe by stuffing it with a cheesecake filling. If I leave them on the break room table at work (at 7am), they are all gone by the end of our 9:15 amy break. Thanks so much for helping me improve my baking since I moved to this mountain high town a few years ago!
Yum!!!!!
Wonderful high altitude recipe; love the suggestion to sprinkle with sea salt! Here is my Gluten Free version guaranteed to delight the lucky person who eats them! I substituted my homemade gluten-free flour blend for the flour, used 1.75 cups of brown sugar and did not use any granulated sugar. To help even more with GF moistness, I added an extra egg. To make it more like an old family favorite, I substituted 1.5 cups of chopped walnuts for the 3 cups of chocolate chips.
Made without the chocolate chips, and they were delicious!
Is this really 1 and 1/4 cup cocoa powder?
Yes, ma’am!
I have made the old recipe several times – to the delight of everyone I have shared the results with! I’d love to know how this modified recipe compares to the old tested and true one.
I’m not a good cook, but need to make plain chocolate cookies at high altituded,
7000 ft.
In your chocolate chocolate chip cookies may I use just dark chocolate chips instead of the mixture?
Thanks for your help,
New to cooking,
Of course!
Made these at 7700 ft. They’re perfect! It seems like so much cocoa powder, but the cookies are totally worth it!
Wow so good and chocolatey!! I made these at sea level — had no idea how to adapt it so I baked it a little longer (plus we like crisp cookies—my husband wouldn’t be sad if I burnt them). They didn’t “spread” which was gone by me — next time I know I can crowd more onto the cookie sheet. Also, didn’t have white chocolate so I subbed walnuts for some of the chocolate chips—this recipe is a winner!
*fine my be — and the cookies will be gone by me if I don’t stop eating them soon ;^)
Amazingly good. Batter is super thick I basically had to use my hands to knead it together. But resulted in thick chewy cookies to rival any bakery!
These are fudgy and delicious. But I made them much smaller and got a bit over 4 dozen from the batch. I used a scoop, pressed the dough balls down gently, then after 10 minutes’ bake time used a silicone spatula to flatten them a bit more. I baked them about 2 more minutes and got cookies that were still soft but a bit crispy on the edges. These are a bit sweet for my taste (because of the extra chocolate chips), but my husband loves them. I made them as a thank you for the carpenters building our new home, so I’m sure they’ll disappear fast!
I’m at 8000 feet and really struggle to find recipes. These turned out perfectly. Thanks!!
Hi! I used to live at 9300 ft but am now at sea level. Is there a version of this email that is for sea level baking?