Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

No, this is not a typo. These are chocolate chip cookies with cocoa powder added making Chocolate, Chocolate Chip Cookies.

As I've mentioned before my husband loves chocolate chip cookies.  I make them for him pretty often, but I get bored because that is all he wants, just plain chocolate chip cookies.  I like chocolate chip cookies, but there are so many other kinds of cookies I want to try in which my husband has no interest.  When I came across these in my recently purchased Hershey's Recipe Collection cook book (best $5 I've ever spent) I had to try them.  I was even more excited when my husband wasn't disappointed that they weren't plain chocolate chip cookies.  He loved them.

I changed the name of this recipe because I modified the original Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" Chocoate Chip Cookies recipe.  It is just a basic chocolate chip cookie with cocoa added.  So I did my usual chocolate chip cookie modifications of using bread flour instead of all purpose, and all brown sugar instead of a mix of white and brown.  All of these changes make a softer chewier cookie and since my husband and I love my regular chocolate chip cookies (see my Chocolate Chip Cookies), why change?

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:
(Modified from Hershey's Recipe collection's Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Chip Cookies)
2 sticks butter, melted
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
2 1/4 cups bread flour
1/3 cup Hershey's Special Dark cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Heat oven to 375F.

In a large bowl (or a stand mixer) mix together butter and sugar until well blended.  Then add the vanilla and eggs mixing until incorporated.

In a separate bowl stir together the flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt.  Slowly add this mixture to the butter mixture, stirring well after each addition.

Lastly stir in the chocolate chips.

Drop the dough by the teaspoon onto and un-greased cookie sheet and bake, one pan full at a time, for 6-8 minutes.  Allow cookies to cool on the pan for about 10 minutes before removing to a cooling rack to cool completely.

Makes about 5 dozen cookies.  Make sure to sample one from each batch as you remove them from the pan...quality control.

Enjoy.

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