Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

Are regular chocolate chip cookies just not enough for you? Try these cookies with a rich chocolate flavor and a fab chewy texture. This recipe came from Jan and is dirty good.

• Ready In: 30 mins
• Yields: 24-36 cookies

Ingredients

• 3  cups flour
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon sea salt
• 1  cup unsalted butter, room temp
• 2  teaspoons vanilla
• 1 1⁄2 cups white sugar
• 2⁄3 cup  cocoa (dutch processed is the best)
• 2  large eggs, room temp
• 2  cups  bittersweet  semisweet chocolate chunks
• 2  cups  toasted pecans (or walnuts, hazelnuts or macadamia nuts)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and salt. In a large bowl with a wooden spoon - cream the butter, vanilla and sugar together. Beat in the cocoa. Add the eggs and stir until combined.
3. Add the flour mixture in 3 parts to the butter mixtur; incorporating each addition thoroughly. Mix in chocolate and nuts.
4. Put the dough into balls, the size of your choice and place on a cookie sheet. Flatten the balls slightly. Bake for 10 minutes. Begin checking them at 8 minutes to make sure they don't get overdone.
5. Cool on cookie sheet for 5 minutes before moving them to a wire cooling rack.