30 October 2011

Double, double toil and trouble, Chocolate Chip Cookies this way come!

Every time I'm ill, I get cravings like a pregnant woman. Friday night, it was herring in dill remoulade, today it's chocolate chip cookies.
After hours of searching, I finally found the perfect recipe on A Full Measure of Happiness. Lauren calls them "Double Trouble Chocolate Chip Cookies" which immediately reminded me of Macbeth and, first and foremost, of the fabulous "Double Trouble" song in the film version of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" (the song was in fact inspired by the witches' scene from Macbeth). The last time I listened to it, it got stuck in my ear for several weeks. Am expecting a similar effect this time (not that this is a bad thing, it's an awesome song, after all. And it goes really well with the upcoming Halloween).

I know that bustling around in the kitchen making chocolate cookies is not exactly the best thing to do when you're ill. But those cookies are done in a flash, and I was back in bed within 45 minutes, eating cookies, drinking milk and actually being ... ... cheery! That's got to be a good thing.


No, they are not healthy and I don't even want to know the calorie amount. But: They're chocolatey (white AND bittersweet chocolate chips) and walnutty and fudgy, and they make you really happy. Even when you're lying in bed with a fever.


 Yes, that bowl next to the cookies is a huge cup of milk. Yum!

 

Aaaah, delicious beyond imagining..!

They were gone pretty quickly.

Double Trouble Chocolate Chip Cookies
Makes for around 25 cookies

115 g/1 stick butter
170 g/0.75 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
40 g/0.3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 large or 2 small eggs
125 g/1 cup flour
0.5 tsp bicarbonate of soda
180 g/1 cup chocolate chips (I used a mixture of bitter and white chocolate)
120 g/1 cup walnuts

Preheat the oven to 180° C/350° F and line a baking tray with baking paper.

Mix the butter, sugar, salt, vanilla, cocoa powder, and eggs together until combined. Then add the flour, bicarbonate of soda, chocolate chips, and nuts.

Put tablespoon-sized dollops of the dough on the baking tray and smoothe them down. Be careful to leave enough space in between, the cookies will expand quite a bit.

Bake the cookies for about 15 minutes. They will still be a bit gooey. Leave them in the oven for another 5 minutes if you like them crispy.

Let them cool for 15 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack.

Eat with a large cup of milk.



And now all together:

Double, double, toil and trouble.
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Double, double, toil and trouble.
Something wicked this way comes!

Eye of newt and toe of frog,
wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
lizard's leg and owlet's wing.

Double, double, toil and trouble.
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Double, double, toil and trouble.
Something wicked this way comes!

In the cauldron boil and bake,
fillet of a fenny snake,
scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
witches mummy, maw and gulf.

Double, double, toil and trouble.
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Double, double, toil and trouble.
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Double, double, toil and trouble.
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Something wicked this way comes! 

3 comments:

  1. I am so in love with the fact that you posted these along with a Harry Potter video because I am OBSESSED with Harry Potter (and chocolate chip cookies)...hope you feel better!

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  2. Thanks :)
    I'm completely obsessed with Harry Potter, too, I even picked the Deathly Hallows as the subject of my thesis...
    It's time I did another reading marathon, all seven books in one go.

    The cookies are all gone now, my flatmate and I did a very thorough job.

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  3. wow, they look gorgeous!

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