Double Chocolate Cookie Recipe

1 1/2 cups Softened butter or shortening

1/ 1/2 cups Golden brown sugar

1 cup Chocolate beverage powder (such as Nesquik)

4 tbsp Milk

2 tsp Vanilla extract

2 Eggs

1 1/2 tsp Baking soda

1/4 tsp Baking powder

2 1/2 - 3 cups All-purpose flour

2 tsp Salt

1 Milk chocolate bar (such as Jersey Milk or Dove)

Directions

Combine butter (or shortening), brown sugar and Nesquik in an electric mixer on medium for about 5 seconds or until ingredients are fully mixed. Add eggs, milk and vanilla extract and combine on high for 3-5 seconds or until mixture is smooth. Add flour, 2 1/2-3 cups depending on how viscous the mixture is (I tend to add 2 1/2 cups for moister, chewier cookies). You don't want the dough too dry or too liquidy; it should be solid enough to mould but sticky enough to stick to the sides of the bowl. While adding the flour, also add the salt, baking powder and baking soda. You may add these all at once or feed them into the bowl with the mixer on. Once all of these ingredients have been fully combined, chop up the milk chocolate bar with a sharp knife or process it, and add the coarse pieces to the rest of the dough. Mix the chocolate pieces in by hand with a wooden spoon.

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Prepare at least two baking sheets covered with non-stick spray, parchment paper or aluminum foil. Scoop out mounds of dough with a tablespoon, and use another spoon to scrape the dough mounds off onto the baking sheet. All the mounds should be roughly the same size using the spoons. Space cookies about 1 inch apart on a baking sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes until the cookies appear to be bubbling on top (like a pancake). Let cool for at least 5 minutes.

To make delicious sandwich cookies, simply buy or make vanilla buttercream icing. Spread the icing liberally onto the flat side of one cookie with a knife, or pipe it onto the cookie, and press it against the flat side of another cookie Scrape off excess icing carefully with a knife. Do so only when cookies are at least luke-warm.

Yield: about 20 cookies; about 10 sandwiches.