Double Chocolate Pecan Cookies Food

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE PECAN COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in chocolate and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; gradually add to the creamed mixture. Stir in chocolate chips and pecans. , Drop by tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 375° for 10-12 minutes or until tops are cracked. Remove to wire racks to cool.

ULTIMATE DOUBLE CHOCOLATE COOKIES

Steps:

• Melt chocolate over a double boiler or in the microwave, stirring occasionally until smooth. Sift together flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
• In a medium bowl, cream butter with white sugar and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in coffee crystals and vanilla until well blended. Stir in melted chocolate. Using a wooden spoon, stir in the dry ingredients just until everything comes together. Cover, and let stand for 35 minutes so the chocolate can set up.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper. Roll dough into walnut sized balls, or drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets, leaving 2 inches between cookies.
• Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Cookies will be set, but the centers will still be very soft because of the chocolate. Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheets for 10 minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

FLOURLESS DOUBLE-CHOCOLATE PECAN COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a large bowl, whisk together sugar, cocoa, and salt. Stir in chocolate and pecans. Add egg whites and stir just until incorporated (do not overmix).
• Drop dough by 1/4 cupfuls, 3 inches apart, onto 2 parchment-lined rimmed baking sheets. Bake until cookie tops are dry and crackled, about 25 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through. Transfer sheets to wire racks and let cookies cool completely. (To store, keep in an airtight container, up to 3 days.)

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE-PEACH COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375˚ F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Whisk the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. In a separate bowl, beat the butter and brown sugar with a mixer on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes. Beat in the egg and vanilla. Beat in the flour mixture on low speed. Stir in the white chocolate chips and chopped peach.
• Arrange 24 balls of dough, about 2 heaping tablespoons each, about 2 inches apart on the baking sheets.
• Bake until set around the edges, 12 to 15 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes on the pans, then transfer to a rack to cool completely.

PECAN DOUBLE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F.
• Beat spread and sugars in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed 4 minutes. Beat in vanilla and egg. Beat in flour, baking soda and salt on low speed. Stir in pecans and chips.
• Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are golden (do not overbake). Immediately remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.

MEAN CHEF'S DOUBLE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES WITH PECANS

Steps:

• Position 1 rack in the top 1/3 and another in the bottom 1/3 of the oven and preheat to 350°F.
• Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt into a medium bowl and set aside.
• Melt the chocolate and butter in the top of a double boiler over hot, simmering water.
• Remove from the heat but keep the chocolate mixture over a bowl of hot water to ensure that the mixture does not set.
• In a small bowl, combine the vanilla extract and the espresso powder and whisk until the espresso powder is dissolved.
• Stir the espresso mixture into the chocolate mixture.
• Combine the eggs and both sugars in the bowl of a heavy-duty electric mixer (you can double the recipe and it will fit a 5 or 6 qt mixer bowl).
• Set the bowl over a pan of hot, hot simmering water.
• Stir with a hand-held wire whisk until warm to the touch.
• Attach the bowl to the mixer stand.
• Using the wire whip attachment, whip the mixture on high speed until pale, thickened and cool, about 5 minutes.
• Fold into the warm chocolate mixture.
• Fold in the flour.
• Stir in the chocolate chips and pecans.
• Drop the dough by rounded tablespoons onto the 2 prepared pans leaving about 1 to 1/2 inches between the cookies (at work I make these a lot bigger so that they come out about 5 inches across).
• Bake for 12-14 minutes or until the cookies are set: switch the positions of the baking sheets halfway through the baking time for even baking.
• Cool the cookies on the baking sheets on wire racks for about 3 minutes, then transfer the cookies to wire racks to cool completely.
• Repeat with the remaining dough.

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE PECAN COOKIES

Steps:

• In the bowl of a large electric mixer, cream together butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time, followed by vanilla.
• In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking soda and baking powder.
• Add to butter mixture in thirds, until incorporated.
• Mix in oats, coconut, chocolate chunks and chopped pecans.(These final additions may have to be done by hand, using a stiff wooden spoon, if your mixer isn't powerful enough to cope with the dense mixture.).
• Drop cookie dough by heaping tablespoons onto greased cookie sheets and bake at 350°F for about 12 minutes, until just beginning to turn golden.
• Let cookies cool on baking sheet for a couple of minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
• Repeat with remaining dough.

PECAN DOUBLE-CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugars. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in the remaining ingredients. , Drop by 1/4 cupfuls 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 12-14 minutes or until golden brown. Remove to wire racks.