Chocolate Cookies

Yes, I know I misspelled “Recipe” on the photo text. Didn’t notice it until AFTER I uploaded & am too lazy to change it. 😉

I don’t often bake cookies, and definitely not ones made from scratch!  When Tanya Burr posted a chocolate cookie recipe on her blog that had Cadbury Dairy Milk bars mixed in, I knew I had to make them!  These cookies are super rich and I can’t eat more than one at a time, but they are delicious and an indulgent treat.

The recipe on Tanya’s blog was written in gram/weight measurements, so I had to do some conversions to figure out the US cups.  I also didn’t have self-rising flour like her recipe called for so I had to add in baking powder and salt.  We don’t have Milky bars or Daim bars here in the US, so I found appropriate replacements.  I can usually get my hands on Dairy Milk bars in the grocery store, often in the candy aisle or the international aisle.  Below is an Americanized recipe:

Ingredients:

1 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1 egg

2 1/4 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/3 cup cocoa powder

milk

Ghiradelli White Chocolate bar

Cadbury Dairy Milk bar

Cadbury Royal Dark bar

3 Heath bars

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees (F).
2. Dice up the chocolate bars into smaller pieces.  Break up the Heath bars using a rolling pin.  (I did this while they were still in the wrapper.)  Set aside.
3. Let the butter warm up to room temperature.  Using an electric mixer, blend butter and sugar.
4. Crack in the egg.  Mix well.
5. Add in all dry ingredients & mix.  Tanya says to add a dash of milk, but I had to add almost a cup of milk to make the batter the consistency I wanted.
6. Add in all the chocolate bars, including Heath.  Stir to combine.
7. Line 2 large baking trays with foil or parchment paper.
8. Using an ice cream scoop, scoop out the cookie batter on to the tray.  I put 5 cookies per tray.
9. Bake for 11 minutes.  Do not cook any longer than this!  They will not look done when you take them out.
10. Remove from oven. Lift the foil with the cookies off tray and allow to cool for 30 minutes.  The cookies will be very soft so if you don’t let them cool sufficiently, they will be gooey and fall apart.