Mud Cookies

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate
• 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate
• 1/3 cup butter
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/4 cups chocolate chips
• 3/4 cup mini marshmallows (optional)
• 3/4 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven 350.
• 2 chop bittersweet and unsweetened chocolates.
• 3 place chocolate and butter in large heatproof bowl over slightly smaller saucepan of hot (not boiling) water. melt, stirring until about three-quarters melted.
• 4 remove from heat and let finish melting; stir until smooth.
• 5 whisk in sugar, then eggs, 1 at a time, and vanilla.
• 6 in separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt.
• 7 pour over chocolate mixture; stir just until combined.
• 8 sprinkle chocolate chips, and marshmallows (optional) and walnuts (optional) over batter; stir to combine.
• 9 drop by heaping tablespoonful about 2 inches apart onto parchment paper-lined or ungreased rimless baking sheets.
• 10 bake, 1 sheet at a time, in centre of oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until firm around edges but still soft in centre.
• 11 let firm up on pan on rack for 5 minutes; transfer cookies to rack to finish cooling.