Milk Chocolate Cookies

A friend brought these cookies to us as a treat along with a meal after we had Benjamin.  These cookies were sooo good!  Will asked me and asked me if I had gotten the recipe from her so I could make them for us.  She shared the recipe, so I made them this weekend.  A wonderful chocolate-y goodness in cookie form!

- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp coarse salt
- 8 oz milk chocolate (4 oz coarsely chopped, 4 oz cut into 1/4-in chunks)
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 325.  Whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.

Melt 4 oz coarsely chopped chocolate with the butter in a small heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water; let cool slightly.

Put chocolate mixture, sugar, eggs, and vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment.  Mix on medium speed until combined.  Reduce speed to low; gradually mix in flour mixture.  Fold in chocolate chunks.

Using a 1 1/2 in ice cream scoop, drop dough onto parchment paper-lined baking sheets, spacing 2 in apart.  Bake until cookies are flat and surfaces crack, about 15 min (cookies should be soft).  Let cool on parchment on wire racks  Cookies can be stored between layers of parchment in airtight containers at room temperature up to 3 days.

So good!  If you are a fellow chocoholic, they are a must try!