Many years ago, a dear friend discovered this recipe for chocolate chunk cookies; she shared it with us and then. Here is the original recipe.
Granted, there are A LOT of chocolate chips in these babies but damn, they’re GOOD!
Double Chocolate Chip and Cranberry Cookies
Makes 60 cookies
Ingredients:
- 227 g unsalted butter at room temperature
- 200 g brown sugar
- 100 g granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 10 mL pure vanilla extract
- 360 g all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 300 g semi-sweet chocolate, chopped into chunks (chocolate chips work too)
- 300 g milk chocolate chips
- 150 g of dried, unsweetened cranberries or dried cherries
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 350° F.
- Combine the butter and two sugars in the large bowl of your stand mixer with the creaming paddle attachment and cream until light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs one at a time beating well. Add the vanilla.
- Sift the flour, baking soda and salt together and add in two batched into the batter, mixing until combined.
- Fold in the chocolate chips and dried cranberries.
- Drop walnut-sized balls onto a parchment-lined baking sheet and press down a bit.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes or until slightly golden. For chewier cookies, slightly underbake.
