It looked... Amazing. Utterly amazing. I mean Spicy? Salty? Sweet sweet chocolate? Hell yes sign me up! So I made them, I think a few more tweaks are in order but I ate 6 within an hour of having baked them. So clearly they're not THAT far from perfection. Right?
Ingredients
1+ 1/2 cups flour
1 cup Dutch-process cocoa powder
1+ 1/2 tsp flaky sea salt or kosher
3/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp baking powder
1+ 1/2t sp cayenne powder (can increase to 2 tsp if you want spicier)
1 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup butter
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 eggs
1.5 cup chocolate chips (semi-sweet or dark)
Directions
1. Heat Oven to 375 Degrees
2. Combine the Flour, Cocoa, Salt, Baking Soda, Baking Powder and Cayenne in a bowl. Whisk until combined.
3. Cream the butter in your mixer until light and fluffy, then add sugars. Beat in Eggs and vanilla.
4. Add in half the flour mixture, then add the 2nd half until just incorporated. (Whatever you do, don't be like me have your mixer set on high. FLOUR WILL BE EVERYWHERE)
5. Add in the chocolate chips and chopped chocolate bits.
6. Drop by the spoonful onto your cookie sheet and bake 8-12 minutes (depends on your oven, mine were averaging 9-10 minutes to done).
The recipe called for rolling the dough into 1 inch balls, but I'm lazy and this was faster. The dough won't spread too much I found.
These were amazing, absolutely amazing. I will totally be making them again. Possibly tomorrow or next week or now. Once I eat one, I realize I seem to have actually eaten 5 more right after that. Kind of problematic actually. =)
Also works great using gluten-free flour blends.
