double chocolate cookies

Let's be honest - you could stop right here...

We made these cookies for a potluck in our dorm, and they were uber chocolate-y and very delicious. Somehow, these taste even better during finals week. The only thing better than chocolate is more chocolate, right?

double chocolate cookies (adapted from Very Best Baking)
1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 stick butter, softened at room temperature
1/2 cup white granulated sugar
1/4 cup brown granulated sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 egg
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Yields 2 dozen cookies

1. In a bowl, cream together butter and sugar. After the butter and sugar are mixed, add in the egg and vanilla, and mix until lighter colored.


2. In another bowl, mix the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt, and chocolate chips.
3. Fold the wet ingredients into the dry. If you are not baking the cookies immediately, cover and refrigerate the batter.
4. When you are ready to bake the cookies, scoop ~1 Tbs of cookie dough for each cookie onto a greased cookie sheet, keeping them about 1 inch apart. Gently flatten each cookie dough scoop with the back of a spoon or a fork.
5. Bake at 380 F for 12-15 minutes.*
*The recipe does say to bake the cookies at 375 F for 8 minutes, but our cookies were still raw.

These cookies disappeared fast.