My Favorite Chocolate Cookies

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These are a transverse betwixt French pastry cook Pierre Herme's Korova Cookies and Cape Cod baker Terri Horn's salty cocoa oatmeal cookies, with additions of cinnamon and melted chocolate.

The logs of dough request to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest 1 hr and up to 2 days. They tin beryllium frozen for up to 1 month. Frozen dough tin beryllium sliced and baked close away; let for 1 oregon 2 other minutes successful the oven. The cookies tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality for up to 3 days oregon frozen for up to 1 month.

Adapted from "Stir: Mixing It Up successful the Italian Tradition," by Barbara Lynch (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 8 dozen cookies

  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 3/4 cupful positive 1 tablespoonful unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 tablespoonful baking soda
  • 1 tablespoonful crushed cinnamon
  • 1 cupful coarsely chopped bittersweet cocoa (preferably 85 percent cacao), positive 1 cupful finely chopped bittersweet chocolate
  • 11 ounces (2 3/4 sticks) unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1 spoon kosher salt
  • 1 spoon vanilla extract
  • Fleur de sel, for sprinkling

Nutritional Facts

Per cookie

  • Calories

    64

  • Fat

    4 g

  • Saturated Fat

    3 g

  • Carbohydrates

    8 g

  • Sodium

    62 mg

  • Cholesterol

    7 mg

  • Protein

    1 g

  • Fiber

    1 g

  • Sugar

    4 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Stir: Mixing It Up successful the Italian Tradition," by Barbara Lynch (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009).

Tested by Lucy Shackelford.

Published December 8, 2009

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Updated March 13, 2026

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