Recipe: Triple Threat Chocolate Mocha Chocolate Chip Cookies

Triple Threat Chocolate Mocha Chocolate Chip Cookies
alt.cooking-chien/moncadoit (1999)

3/4 cup butter
1/4 cup vegetable shortening
1 cup cut-up semi-sweet chocolate
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 tbsp vanilla (sounds like a lot but it's right)
3 tbsp decaf coffee concentrate (3 1/2 tsp instant coffee plus 4 tbsp water)
4 cups unbleached white flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350F degrees.

Heat together until uniformly melted; butter, shortening, and cut-up semi-sweet chocolate. Stir to smooth, and let cool to room temp.

Meanwhile, whip together for five minutes with an electric mixer eggs, brown sugar, and white sugar

Add vanilla, coffee, and cooled chocolate butter mixture. Whip for another two minutes.

Combine the following dry ingredients in a separate bowl; flour, baking powder, salt, and cocoa.

Stir flour-cocoa mixture into butter-sugar-egg-coffee mixture by hand. Lastly, stir in chocolate chips

Drop dough by tablespoons onto greased cookie sheets and bake for ten minutes. Let cool on sheets one minute more before removing to rack.