Recipe: Chocolate Chubbies (cookies)

CHOCOLATE CHUBBIES

8 squares (1 ounce each) semisweet chocolate
3 squares (1 ounce each) unsweetened chocolate
1/2 cup unsalted butter
3 large eggs, at room temperature
1 1/4 cups sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
2/3 cup unbleached all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1 1/2 cups toasted walnuts, chopped
1 1/2 cups toasted pecans, chopped

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. and grease 3 cookie sheets.

Melt the chocolate with the butter in a double boiler over simmering water. Cool to room temperature.

Beat the eggs with the sugar in a mixer bowl until a ribbon forms when the beaters are lifted, about 10 minutes. Beat in the chocolate mixture and vanilla; set aside.

Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl and stir into the chocolate mixture just until combined. Do not overmix! Stir in the chocolate chips and nuts.

Drop batter by 1/4 cupfuls 2 inches apart onto the prepared cookies sheets (do not flatten).

Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until barely firm and tops are just dry and slightly cracked. Cool on the cookie sheet for 2 minutes and then gently transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

Makes: 25 Large Cookies
From The Ladies Home Journal, April 1991