If you looking for some comfort food
this Totally Chocolate Chip Cookies are good to go! This recipe of Nigella has
tons of chocolate goodness inside the cookies, with added melted chocolate,
cocoa powder and lots of chocolate chips. The texture is soft and crumbly. They
are great to go with milk.
I shaped my cookies with ice-cream
scoop like the way Nigella did. This gave me 12 big cookies. I reduced the
sugar as I'm using semi-sweet chocolate. I cut down the chocolate chips too. 2
cups chocolate chips for only 12 cookies...sound a lot to me :D
A blogger friend of mine, Zoe from Bake for Happy Kids did bake and post these cookies too. I found that her cookie
batter is dryer and can be easily shaped round with spoons. After read the
ingredients I found that the measurement is written in grams. I’m using the
recipe from her cookbook which measurement is written in cups. I guess this yields
different batter.
My cookies batter is wet and hardly
shape into round with hands neither with spoons. I’m glad that I have an
ice-cream scoop (just bought meant for shaping cookies :D) which ease the cookies
shaping. In order to prevent my cookies flatten too fast in oven I kept the
shaped cookies inside fridge to firm up, about 2-3 hours. Once the oven is
preheated, take the cookies straight away from fridge and bake.
Although I had reduce the amount of sugar,
chocolate and chips in my cookies, they still taste totally chocolaty to me. I
still feel pretty sinful to have a piece of it (remember mine one is big chocolaty
cookie?) :P So, it is up to you how much chocolate to add into your desire Totally
Chocolate Chip cookies :)
Adapted with modification from
Nigella Express cookbook
Or refer Nigella.com (measurement in
grams)
Totally Chocolate Chocolate Chip
Cookies
Ingredients:
(A)
100g semisweet chocolate (reduced
from 125g)
125g butter, room temperature
50g light brown sugar (original used
½ cup brown sugar and ¼ cup granulated sugar)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
(original used 1 teaspoon)
1 egg, cold from the fridge
(B)
½ cup all-purpose flour (original
used 1 cup)
½ cup wholewheat flour (omit if used
1 cup all-purpose flour)
¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder (replace
for baking soda)
¼ teaspoon salt
(C)
¾ cup semisweet chocolate chips
(original used 2 cups)
Methods:
1. Melt the chocolate with double
boiler method. Leave aside to cool slightly. Measure and sift the dry
ingredients (B) into a bowl.
2. Cream the butter and sugar with
electric mixer. Add the melted chocolate and mix together.
3. Beat in the vanilla extract and
cold egg, and then mix in the dry ingredients. Finally stir in the chocolate
chips.
4. Scoop out the batter with ice-cream scoop and place on a lined
baking sheet. Leave the cookies about 2 ½ inches apart, do not flatten them.
5. Bake for 18 minutes, testing with
a cake tester to make sure they come out semi-clean and not wet with cake
batter.
6. Leave to cool on the baking sheet
for 4-5 minutes, then transfer them to a cooling rack to harden as they cool.
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Hi Vivian,
ReplyDeleteSeeing any cookie recipes are making me full of guilt! I have not baked cookies in ages and have promised the kids I would! I better bake some soon! These cookies are just perfect with a glass of cold milk, and for me, hot coffee!
Thanks for linking to CYB!
My my my cookie tin is empty....,. I came to fill it up with your totally choco chip cookies......
ReplyDeletehi Vivian, I baked this before, but I added cornflour to add some chewiness. Next time I want to try the original recipe without cornflour to get a crumbly kind of cookies :)
ReplyDeleteI don't think there can ever be too much chocolate and I'm loving the sound of these cookies, just crammed with chocolate! These do sound perfect with a big glass of milk and I'm sure would be a kid favorite!
ReplyDeleteHi Vivian,
ReplyDeleteI have baked this recipe a few times using different brands and types of chocolate and the different batches of cookies can turned out differently!!! And, of course, I like the extra-chocolatey ones especially with Callebaut chocolate the most :p
I didn't use wholemeal flour to bake these cookies before and would like to try baking your wholemeal version :D
Zoe
Vivian, love these cookies! I want to bake them too.
ReplyDeleteYou are right, Vivian, these are deliciously sinful cookies, so chocolatey. Yummmmy!
ReplyDeleteWow, you're right, even with your adaptations, the cookies must still taste insanely chocolate-y. Can't wait to try them!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the great article.
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