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Chocolate chipped cookies

Course Baking, cookies
Cuisine American
Keyword belgian chocolate cookies, chocolate chip cookies
Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Servings 24

Ingredients

  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon for high altitude
  • 1 teaspoon fine sea salt
  • 2 sticks unsalted butter at cool room temperature
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 1/4 cups lightly packed dark brown sugar
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 2 large eggs at room temperature
  • 12 oz dark chocolate preferably Belgian
  • 1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts

Instructions

  1. Chop the chocolate into chunks around the same size as chocolate chips. Smaller pieces are ok, too. These cookies are meant to look almost marbled and rustic.
  2. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, and salt.
  3. In the bowl of an electric mixer, using the paddle attachment if you have one, beat the butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar until creamy, about 2 minutes.
  4. Add the vanilla and eggs, and beat to combine.
  5. Gradually stir in the flour mixture.
  6. Stir in the chopped chocolate and the chopped walnuts.
  7. Chill the dough covered in plastic wrap for 30-120 minutes or up to 24 hours. You can freeze and thaw the dough when you want to bake some cookies.
  8. When you are ready to bake the cookies:
  9. Preheat oven to 350ºF.
  10. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
  11. Divide the dough into 3-tablespoon-sized balls using a large cookie scoop and drop them onto prepared baking sheets about 3 inches apart. Flatten the ballls slightly.
  12. Bake for 14-18 minutes or until golden brown. Cool for 5 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely. If you don't have enough cookie sheets let the pan cool completely before baking a new batch.

Recipe Notes

To make it easy to bake from frozen dough, I like to portion out each dough ball and freeze individually, then store in a container or plastic bag. The dough thaws quicker from individual balls. Then let them come to a cool room temperature before baking.