Recipe: Amy's Chocolate Duet Cookies, Chocolate Duet Cookies from Panera (copycat)

AMY'S CHOCOLATE DUET COOKIES
Panera Chocolate Duet Cookies (copycat recipe)

2 cups flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup butter, softened (I used half butter and half margarine butter is too expensive!)
3/4 cup white granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cups walnuts
1 cup white chocolate chips
1 cup semisweet or milk chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Mix together flour, cocoa powder and baking sode in a large bowl; set aside.

Cream together butter, sugars, eggs and vanilla. Add dry ingredients to butter mixture. Stir in nuts and chips. Drop by teaspoon onto ungreased cookie sheet

Bake 9-12 minutes.

Adapted from source: lifeofchadandamy.blogspot.com, 1/28/2008

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CHOCOLATE DUET COOKIES FROM PANERA
(copycat recipe)

3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 sticks (3/4 cup) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup white chocolate chips (for less sweetness use less white chocolate and more semi-sweet chocolate)
1/2 cup coarsely chopped nuts (Panera uses walnuts, I used macadamia nuts)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (you may need to adjust this based on your particular oven, my mom's oven bakes these perfectly at 375 degrees and my dad's needs to be set at 350 degrees.)

Whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl; set aside.

Beat together butter and sugar with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy, then beat in eggs and vanilla until combined. Add flour mixture and mix just until combined. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts. Drop level tablespoons of dough about 2-inches apart onto ungreased baking sheets.

Bake in batches in middle of oven until puffed and set, about 8-10 minutes. Transfer cookies to a rack to cool. Keep an eye on these cookies in the oven, especially on your first batch. You don't want them to burn on the edges!

Makes about 30 cookies
Adapted from source: Krysti's Cooking Blog, May 4, 2009

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CHOCOLATE DUET COOKIES WITH WALNUTS MENU DESCRIPTION
Source: Panera

Menu description: Chocolate cookie dough with walnuts, semisweet chocolate chunks & bits of white confectionary chunk

Ingredients: Unbleached white flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), butter {milk}, sugar, white confectionery chunks (sugar, partially hydrogenated palm kernel and palm oils, nonfat dry milk, butterfat [milk], soy lecithin [emulsifier], artificial flavoring, salt), semi sweet chocolate chunks (sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, dextrose, soy lecithin [emulsifier], vanillin [artificial flavor]), brown sugar, walnuts, pasteurized whole egg, cocoa powder (cocoa processed with alkali), baking soda, salt, pure vanilla extract.