Description

These started out as the recipe for chocolate chocolate chip cookies in the book Bite Me, but I've heavily adjusted the recipe into something of my own.

Ingredients

• 1 cup (2 US sticks) butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 2 cups flour
• 2/3 cup cocoa powder
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon table salt
• 2 cups chocolate or butterscotch chips
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract (optional)

Procedure

1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
2. Whip the softened butter with an egg beater until light and fluffy.
3. Add sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla to butter, and beat until light and fluffy and the sugar is dissolved.
4. Add eggs. Beat until well mixed and light and fluffy.
5. In another smaller mixing bowl, combine flour, cocoa powder, cinnamon, chili powder, cloves, salt, and baking soda. Mix it well with a spoon.
6. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Mix thoroughly, starting with an egg beater, then switching to a mixing spoon once the dough gets too much for the egg beater to handle.
7. Mix in the chips. Don't over mix.
8. Put small, roughly 3/4 inch globs of cookie dough onto a baking sheet. They come out best if you use a small ice cream scoop and roll them round by hand.
9. Bake for 8-9 minutes. They are done when a toothpick comes out mostly clean.