Saturday 28 July 2012

Triple Chocolate Cookies

My friends always complain that I hardly ever bake for them. If they come round to my house they know I’ll definitely bake something for them, but I hardly ever take bakes into school. Even on birthdays it tends to be someone else who brings the cake in. I’m not sure why – I think it’s the pressure? And all the different tastes, likes and allergies to bear in mind! With my four week internship this summer, I wanted this to be different and so every Friday I’ve taken something in for the office. Blueberry and lemon cupcakes one week, nectarine and coconut muffins last week, and these triple chocolate cookies the week in between. There is definitely less pressure and fear that people won’t like something when it involves chocolate!DSCF9085The original recipe is from Dan Lepard’s Short and Sweet book, a fabulous book and one where my list of ‘To Make’ recipes is pretty much the whole book. I feel like I can trust Dan Lepard’s recipes too – I’ve made many of his ones from the Guardian and they’ve always gone down well. I did make a slight change to this recipe – just making half the chocolate chunks white chocolate rather than all dark as I simply love white chocolate and thought it made more interesting. And triple rather than double chocolate can never be a bad thing!DSCF9091I loved how these turned out – they were so perfectly round! They had those moreish crispy edges, a soft middle, plenty of cocoa flavour and a generous helping of chocolate. I overuse this word so much but seriously – these really are addictive. I may or may not have eaten one for breakfast. Or even more than one…Anyhow! The office liked them, I liked them, my family liked them. The only people still waiting are my friends! You can find pretty much the same recipe here – the only difference is the book had 300g of chocolate and I didn’t freeze them. Enjoy!

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10 comments:

Rosa's Yummy Yums said...

They look so good! Perfect for chocolate addicts. ;-P

Cheers,

Rosa

La Table De Nana said...

Your description alone..makes me want to bake then..

The gang at your internship must be in love with you!

The Caked Crusader said...

Yum - they look the perfect blend of crisp and chewy

Alfie said...

I always love finding cookie recipe that are soft in the middle and crispy on the outside - definitely adding these to the list, they look so yummy!

Laura loves cakes said...

These look like the perfect chocolate cookies!! :-)

Dewi said...

I will never get tired of chocolate chips cookies. Thanks for sharing Lucy!

Jo said...

Well you certainly can't go wrong with three different types of chocolate in a cookie! They look very moreish.

Also, congratulations on the food writing competition! That's brilliant news.

laura@howtocookgoodfood said...

What fantastic looking cookies. I am so impressed and think they sound addictive too!
Many congratulations on winning the guild of food writers competition. You will have a good future ahead of you if you are this good already!

ABC Liquor License said...

This is the first time I saw your blog and I feel like I'm going to love it. Congratulations by the way in winning in the guild of food writers competition.

Faith said...

I think addictive is probably the perfect word for these beauties...they look fabulous, Lucy!