1 cup butter or hard margarine, softened
2/3 cup granulated (white) sugar
2/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs
2 cups all-purpose (plain) flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 3/4 cups chocolate chunks (chips work too)
Preheat oven to 350◦F. Line cookie sheets, if desired.
In a large bowl, beat the butter, sugars, and vanilla. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Mix in the dry ingredients gradually. Stir in the chocolate. Drop dough by rounded tablespoons onto prepared cookie sheets. Bake for 9-11 minutes, until edges are set, but centers are still a bit soft. Let cool on the cookie sheets for two minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
With a lot of leftover chocolates around the house from here and there, and anywhere, I decided to make some cookies to use it all up. Typically, packaged semi-sweet chocolate chunks (like chocolate chips) are used for these recipes, but you can use any type of chocolate chunk you like, or chop your own chocolate chunks from bars. I used a nice mixture of milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and made up the rest with semi-sweet chocolate chips. This made cookies with interesting different chocolate flavors, which worked out nicely. Hey, as long as it's chocolate it's good right? And of course, the cookie base had to be chocolate itself, because the more chocolate the better! These cookies are quite soft and moist and very chocolatey; in other words, delicious!
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