Chocolate Chocolate-chip Cookies

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 48
• 1 3/4 cups flour (sifted, all-purpose)
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter (unsalted)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup dark brown sugar (must be dark brown, packed)
• 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 2 tablespoons half-and-half
• 1 cup pecans (broken into bits)
• 6 ounces chocolate chips (semisweet)

Recipe

• 1 adjust two racks to divide oven into thirds and preheat oven to 350. cover cookie sheets with foil (shiny side up).
• 2 sift flour and baking soda and set aside.
• 3 in large bowl of electric mixer, cream butter. add the vanilla and both sugars and beat to mix well.
• 4 on low speed, add cocoa and beat to mix. mix in cream and, on low speed, gradually add sifted dry ingredients, scraping bowl with rubber spatula and beating only until mixed.
• 5 remove bowl from mixer and, with wooden spoon or spatula, stir in pecans and chocolate bits.
• 6 use a rounded teaspoonful of dough for each cookie. place at least 1-1/2" apart; they will spread during cooking.
• 7 bake 12-13 minutes. don't overbake! no matter what they look like, stop at 13 minutes.
• 8 let cookies stand until cool.