Recipe #13: Chocolate Truffle Cookies with Crackly Crust

Recipe #13: Chocolate Truffle Cookies with Crackly Crust

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I made these cookies last week as I had about 30 extra minutes on my hands before relieving the nanny. Instead of throwing in some laundry I decided to cruise through a recipe and bake these cookies. These have been haunting me ever since we went to the Book of Mormon as they were being served at the Paramount.

I hurried through the recipe and was in awe of the amount of chocolate that goes in these bad boys. A pound plus 4oz of bittersweet chocolate AND then 2 cups of bittersweet chocolate chips get mixed in at the end.
I read that whipping the batter well as you incorporate the eggs will give that crackly top - in hindsight I would have spent more time on this step.

Baking the cookies took the most time because as I've mentioned in previous posts I can only bake 6 cookies at a time in my small oven and in this recipe you turn the cookie sheet halfway through plus you can't refrigerate the dough so you need to commit to the baking process once the dough is made.

The result: A packed with chocolaty goodness cookie. Not all of the cookies turned out to have the crackly crust that makes the cookie so desirable. The taste was still there but next time I really need more then 30 minutes to whip this up and I need to use a bigger ice cream scoop.