"I'm sorry. You can't have any."
From the CIA Baking at Home collection:
MUDSLIDE COOKIES
Flourless cooking spray for greasing
3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons cake flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon powdered instant coffee
1 tablespoon boiling water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
7 ounces unsweetened chocolate, coarsely chopped
6 ounces bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter
7 large eggs
2 3/4 cups sugar
2 cups chopped walnuts
1. 1/2 cups bittersweet chocolate chips
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Lightly spray cookie sheets with cooking spray or line them with parchment paper.
Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl and set aside. Combine the instant coffee and boiling water to make a paste. Blend in the vanilla extract.
Melt the chopped unsweetened chocolate, chopped bittersweet chocolate and the butter in a saucepan over low heat or in the microwave in 15- to 20-second intervals. Gently stir to blend.
In a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat together the eggs, sugar and coffee paste mixture on high speed until light in texture and thick, 6 to 8 minutes. Add the chocolate mixture with the machine running on medium speed. On low speed, mix in the dry ingredients until just blended. Mix in the walnuts and chocolate chips until blended. Scrape down the bowl as needed during mixing to blend evenly.
Using a 1/4-cup measure as a scoop, fill it with dough, level it, and drop the dough onto a prepared cookie sheet, leaving 3 to 4 inches between the cookies. In batches, bake until the cookies are cracked on top but still slightly moist, rotating the pans as necessary to bake evenly, 14 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool slightly on the cookie sheet before transferring them to wire racks to cool completely.
Makes 24 large cookies.
4 comments:
oh my heavens! They sound simply devine! And I'm glad you didn't show us a picture, because I'd be forced to go out and buy the ingredients to make them. :P
Did you want a picture? I could do that...we still have eight left. No, we didn't ravage them -- of the 34 (I know, the recipe says 24, but it made 34, about 2.5 inches across), 24 are reserved (12 going to a party tomorrow night, and 12 going into the office on Monday. And we've gobbled two (talk about INTENSELY chocolate). So, there's eight out there on the counter -- help yourself!
Chocolate... mmmmmm....
You can almost never go wrong with chocolate.
I understand that, except in California, its one of the basic food groups.
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