Double
Chocolate Cookies: Adding Chocolate to Your Chippers
For the chocolate
lovers in your family, nothing beats a double chocolate cookie—chocolate
chips in a chocolate cookie. If you have a favorite chocolate chip
cookie recipe, try altering the dough with the addition of cocoa or
melted baking chocolate to create a double chocolate cookie. Here’s
how:
Cocoa can be added
to your cookie dough. Because cocoa contains starch, it absorbs moisture
and consequently, you should reduce the flour. Tastes and recipes
vary but 1/2 cup to 2/3 cup cocoa is probably about right. For 1/2
cup cocoa, reduce the flour by 1/4 to 1/3 cup. For 2/3 cup cocoa,
reduce the flour by 1/3 to 1/2 cup.
If you add melted
baking chocolate to a recipe, you will not need to make adjustments
in the amount of flour. We recommend adding unsweetened chocolate
since the adjustments are easier. Four to six ounces, depending on
the size of the recipe and your tastes, will probably be enough. Since
you are introducing fat to the recipe, cocoa butter, reduce the amount
of butter by 1/4 cup.
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