Mud Cookies

Submitted by Chef #752913

"This is ridiculously D&D.... decadent and delicious! Serve it for your next major event and I promise you your chocoholic friends will love you. Recipe from Canadian Living Cooks"

 

• Ready In: 55mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Yields: 50-60 cookies
• Serves: 64

ingredients

• 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate
• 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate
• 1⁄3 cup butter
• 1 1⁄4 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1⁄4 cups chocolate chips
• 3⁄4 cup mini marshmallows (optional)
• 3⁄4 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

directions

1. Preheat oven 350.
2. Chop bittersweet and unsweetened chocolates.
3. Place chocolate and butter in large heatproof bowl over slightly smaller saucepan of hot (not boiling) water. Melt, stirring until about three-quarters melted.
4. Remove from heat and let finish melting; stir until smooth.
5. Whisk in sugar, then eggs, 1 at a time, and vanilla.
6. In separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt.
7. Pour over chocolate mixture; stir just until combined.
8. Sprinkle chocolate chips, and marshmallows (optional) and walnuts (optional) over batter; stir to combine.
9. Drop by heaping tablespoonful about 2 inches apart onto parchment paper-lined or ungreased rimless baking sheets.
10. Bake, 1 sheet at a time, in centre of oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until firm around edges but still soft in centre.
11. Let firm up on pan on rack for 5 minutes; transfer cookies to rack to finish cooling.