Double Chocolate Chunk M&M Cookies

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The other night I went out for some seafood at Ocean Prime. I ate scallops and sushi and tuna tartare. It was a lot of seafood for a Wednesday evening, but it was delicious. After the seafood came the dessert. I sampled bites of a chocolate peanut butter pie (swoon), “butter bread” drizzled with fresh berries, which tastes as weird and confusing and delicious as it sounds, and finally, a ten layer carrot cake. You read that correctly, don’t worry. Yes, there were ten layers on that carrot cake and I went to sleep that night and had dreams about it. Carroty cream cheesy dreams. But anyways, I digress.  There is a reason I’m sharing all of this on my blog post about Double Chocolate Chunk M&m Cookies. I’m telling you this story so that you can understand, a little better, how incredibly extreme my love for desserts is. If you’ve read anything else on this blog, you probably can grasp the less-than-subtle vibe that I’m slightly obsessed with chocolate. If you don’t believe me, just stay tuned.

So we’re on the way home from Ocean Prime and I’m still talking about all of the dessert we just ate and how much I loved it and how the ten layer carrot cake must take so long to frost and assemble and would I be able to make a carrot cake like that one day? And then I  realize that I’m thinking about all of the desserts I want to make one day and how I need to, I absolutely must make something tonight. The urge was too strong. I had already had three desserts that night but I needed to make one more because I was in my maniacal dessert mood that most people may not understand but I do because it’s real and it’s impossible to ignore and it’s not my fault that my body may literally be addicted to sugar at this point.

So anyways, I got home and started looking around the kitchen. Could I possibly have enough carrots to make a carrot cake? Maybe not a ten layer one, that would be for another day, but at least two or three layers? Carrots were nowhere to be found so I start thinking about other things that I could make this late at night, on a Wednesday, when there was simply and definitively no reason I needed to be baking something at all. But then I spied the M&m’s, hiding inconspicuously, in the corner of my pantry. Next, I noted the dark chocolate chunks, just sitting there. The cocoa powder started calling my name. Double chocolate chunk M&m’s cookies, here I come.

Chocolate chunks on the outside, chocolate chips on the inside. M&m’s everywhere. By the time they came out of the oven, all of the food I had eaten that night caught up to me and I was laying on the couch overcome with a serious food coma. I took one bite of those cookies, fresh out of the oven, chocolate chunks melting everywhere, and I had a fleeting thought about how I was in the process of eating my fourth dessert of the night. I decided I needed to get rid of them immediately; four desserts in a matter of three hours was extreme, even for someone like me. Off to the teacher’s lounge they went the very next day. But don’t think I didn’t save one or two, in case of a dessert emergency later that next night. Those types of crises happen often in our household, so I know how to be prepared. I don’t like to take any chances, especially when chocolate chunks and m&ms are involved.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup dark chocolate cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 2/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 2/3 cup light brown sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 1/2 cup dark chocolate chunks
  • 1 cup m&ms

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 F. 

    In a small bowl, combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat together sugars, butter, and vanilla. Add the eggs, one at a time. Then gradually stir in the flour/cocoa mixture. Fold in the chocolate chunks and m&ms. I always save a few for sprinkling on the tops of the cookies.

    Use a tablespoon to scoop the dough and place 2 inches apart on a baking sheet. Bake for 9 to 11 minutes and top with the remaining chocolate and m&ms.

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