Valentine's Day Treat: Chocolate Cookie Recipe

Valentine's day is two days away! If you're looking for something simple to treat your loved one or even yourself this Valentine's day, I recommend checking this recipe out for delicious chocolate cookies!

Before I share, I wanted to let you guys know that I did not come up with this recipe. It's from The Newlywed Cookbook that I took a made some minor changes too.

Roberto and I received this cook book for Christmas and this is one of our favorite recipes!

Deep Dark Secret Chocolate Cookies

INGREDIENTS

7 oz. bittersweet chocolate, chopped

1/2 cup unsalted butter

3 large eggs

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1 cup flour

2 tbsp natural cocoa powder

1 tsp baking powder

3/4 tsp fine sea salt

3 oz milk chocolate, chopped

1/4 cup cacao nibs 

For the ingredients we used Ghirardelli chocolate bars for both our milk chocolate and dark chocolate. We also weren't able to get cacao nibs (because I was too lazy to drive to another grocery store) so we just used Ghirardelli 60% cacao bittersweet chocolate baking chips.

INSTRUCTIONS

1.  Set a glass bowl over simmering water and melt the bittersweet chocolate (dark chocolate bar) and butter. Once it's finished melting together, set it aside to cool.

2. Whisk together eggs, vanilla, and sugar in a separate bowl.

3. In another bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt.

4. Slowly mix the egg mixture into the melted chocolate. Sift the dry ingredients into chocolate mixture and fold it in until it is blended. When the dough is cool, stir in the milk chocolate chunks and cacao nibs (bittersweet chocolate baking chips).

5. Refrigerate for 25 minutes. (Pretty sure I let mine sit in there for 24 hours.)

6. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a tray with baking paper. (I didn't have baking paper so I just sprayed the tray, but I definitely think the baking paper would've helped!)

7. Scoop the dough into 1 inch balls and bake them for about 8 minutes -- until they are set, but still soft to the touch, with some shine at the top of them. (At first I didn't know if they we're cooked fully, but I did the 8 minutes and took them out. A lot of people are going to hate me for using this word, but they were so moist and stayed soft for the days following too!)

8. Serve while still warm. Whatever is left over, store in an airtight container.

I will say this recipe made A LOT of cookies. I ended up using only half of the batch then kept the other half in the freezer -- which is nice because the next time I wanted to make them it was all ready to go!

At first glance, I didn't know how overwhelming this recipe was going to be -- but it was actually really simple. And, these cookies were a hit. 

 Also, for any newlyweds out there -- or anyone that just wants some great recipes, I'll the the cook book linked here! Check it out. (No, this isn't sponsored.)

If you're looking for a chocolate alternative to spoil your sweetie, try these out! Guarantee you they'll hit the spot.