on the agenda for this week...chocolate chip cookies (toll house cookies) & my personal favorite from this year's selections...parma chocolate cookies from michelle scicolone's la dolce vita cookbook. i'll direct you here for that famous toll house cookie recipe...& i'll share my slightly modified version of ms. scicolone's cookies for what's cooking wednesday.
PARMA CHOCOLATE COOKIES
preheat oven to 350 & butter your baking sheets.
melt & cool 3 oz. semisweet or bittersweet chocolate...i used valhrona 72%...oooohhhhh
beat 12 T. butter, 1/2 c. sugar & 1/2 t. salt with a mixer til light & fluffy
add the cooled, melted chocolate, beating til well blended
gradually stir in 2 c. flour
cool dough if necessary for better handling...then shape into 1 inch balls
now here is where ms. scicolone & i differ...she rolls them in finely chopped hazelnuts...my children would declare anarchy if i were to do that, so i don't...not yet!
place cookies 1-1/2 inches apart on cookie sheets
poke a hole in each cookie & fill with jam of your choice (i love me some seedless raspberry!), being careful not to over fill them (the jam will run over if you do)
bake 18-20 min...then cool on a wire rack
try not to eat all of them at once!
8 comments:
can i be your girlfriend...blessings and peace to you and yours, rebecca
Wow! You are hardcore girlfriend! A What's Cooking Wednesday post the day after Christmas. I bow to you.
Oh my...they look heavenly! You have some very lucky girlfriends. :)
Yummy! I think I was the one who ate all the chocolate chip cookies in my house. But I haven't told anyone either.
Your cookies look delicious!
Happy New Year! Here comes 2008!
why is it that girls love, adore, crave chocolate.........
I can never have enough :-)
every time i felt upset
that i had not baked a*single*Christmas*cookie
i came over here
and pretended these were mine...
:-)
hope you don't mind!
they smell good
even from over
here....
rebecca...yes you can!!
shan...the day after was the quiet day...the rest, not so much!
susan...i am a very lucky girlfriend & it is always a pleasure to take care of them :D
christine...i think it is good to eat all the chocolate chip cookies ;)
maryann...thank you! & a very blessed new year to you too!
britt-arnhild...chocolate makes it all better!
spf...please help yourself to every single cookie that you would like!
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