Chocolate Pudding Cookies Baked Until the Edges Set

For Chocolate Pudding Cookies Baked Until the Edges Set, the counter starts with semi-sweet chocolate melted and cooled, unsalted butter softened, and light brown sugar lightly packed. Portion it for 24 cookies.

Count on 15 minutes of prep, 12 minutes of cooking, 3 hours of resting, about 3 hours from the first measurement to the plate.

Ingredients Method

What goes in the bowl

• 4 ounces semi-sweet chocolate melted and cooled
• 1 cup unsalted butter softened
• 1 cup light brown sugar lightly packed
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 3.5 oz instant chocolate pudding mix Hershey’s Special Dark recommended
• ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• ½ teaspoon kosher salt
• ⅔ cup bittersweet chocolate chips

How the cooking goes

1. Beat together flour, baking powder, pudding mix, cocoa powder, and salt in a medium mixing bowl. Keep it to one side.
2. Whip butter and brown sugar in the bowl of a electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 to 4 minutes.
3. Add eggs and vanilla and beat to combine. The mixture may look curdled at this point, which is normal.
4. Reduce speed to low and add the flour mixture in several additions, mixing just until the mix looks even after each addition and scraping down the bowl as needed.
5. With the mixer running on low, slowly pour in the melted chocolate and mix until the mix looks even. Stir in the chocolate chips.
6. Cover and refrigerate the dough for at least 3 hours or overnight.
7. Warm the oven to 350°F. Line two sheet pans with baking paper.
8. Roll dough into balls approximately the size of ping-pong balls and place 2 inches apart on the prepared sheets. Press down slightly to flatten the tops.
9. Bake for 12 minutes. The tops should still look glossy in the center — they will not look fully done. Cool on the sheet pan for 10 minutes, then move it onto a wire rack. The cookies firm up as they cool.

After it comes off the heat

Cool the sheet on a rack before the pieces are stacked. A covered tin keeps them for a few days.

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