the browniest cookies I have, for forever and a day, looked for a chocolate cookie I could crown with what I considered the highest honor one could bestow on it, declaring it the browniest cookie. I just didn’t expect it to take me so long to find what I was looking for. Along the way, I met cookies that suggest brownies; ones that are weakly chocolaty, better emulating mediocre brownies; those that promise soft but deliver chewy; and even versions that are a great chocolate cookie, but have little to do with the glorious puddles of square-baked halfway-between-cookie-and-cake batter I love to the point of distraction. To me, the browniest cookie would be everything that we expect from a great brownie — a slight crackly exterior, a plush, fudgy interior — but formatted as a cookie with a piled height that doesn’t spread too flat in the oven. To bite into it, there would be no question as to what it aspired to be. Like the brownie recipe, it begins with unsweetened chocolate and butter melted together.
MOLTEN CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES // SPONSORED BY SCHARFFEN BERGER | The Kitchy Kitchen It’s not fair to the other desserts when molten chocolate cake is on the menu. Who would pass up warm gooey chocolate when its an option? Or any chocolate, really. That’s why I’m so excited to be partnering with Scharffen Berger over Valentine’s Day. I basically have carte blanche to get even more chocolate obsessed than I already am. The result is the softest, chocolate-iest, cookies you’ve ever had. 1 stick butter ½ cup sugar ½ cup brown sugar, packed 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla 1½ cups flour 1 teaspoon baking soda ¼ teaspoon salt 1/2 cup Scharffen Berger Unsweetened Cocoa Powder ½ cup grated Scharffen Berger Semi Sweet Chocolate 1/2 cup heavy cream 6 ounces dark chocolate, finely chopped 1 ounce unsalted butter, softened Bring cream to a boil in a saucepan over medium-high heat. For the cookies, preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cream the butter and sugars in a large bowl. Sift together flour, baking soda, salt and cocoa and gently add to the butter mixture.