Chocolate Cookies Recipe

There is nothing quite as rich, delicious and decadent as making some homemade chocolate cookies.  You want your cookies to be crispy around the edges but soft and chewy in the centers.  Below is my easy to follow recipe for some very delicious chocolate cookies that are made with flour, salt, eggs, butter, cocoa powder, granular sugar, brown sugar and vanilla.

Ingredients:

3 cups of all purpose flour
1/2 cup of cocoa powder
1 teaspoon of baking soda
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1 teaspoon of salt
1 cup of unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup of granular sugar
1 cup of packed brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

Instructions:

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.

You will want to begin by taking a medium mixing bowl and adding in your flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt.  Then give your ingredients a whisk to mix your ingredients together evenly.  Then set your bowl aside until use later.

Now, take a large mixing bowl and add in your butter, granular sugar and brown sugar and cream your ingredients together with a hand mixer until your ingredients are well mixed and are light and fluffy.  Then add in your eggs one at a time and beat until combined.  Finally add in your vanilla and beat until your ingredients are well combined.  You now want to add in your flour to your mixture.  Do so about a cup at a time and mix with your hand mixer until all of your flour is fully incorporated and you have created a cookie dough.

To make your chocolate cookies you will want to drop heaping tablespoon sized balls of dough, about 2 inches apart, on non-stick cookie sheets.  Then place your cookie sheets into your oven and bake until your cookies are golden around the edges, but still soft in the center.  This should take 8 to 10 minutes.   Then remove your cookie sheets from the oven, and let cool for 1 to 2 minutes.   Then remove your chocolate cookies from the cookie sheet and let them cool on a wire rack.  You can serve them while they are still warm of place them in the refrigerator and serve them cold.  Either way, these chocolate cookies are absolutely delicious.