It’s the best cookie recipe on the planet.
Thats not a problem when someone inquires what my favorite cookie recipe is.
Not that anyone has ever asked, but when they do, Im prepared!
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I was told to make 14 dozen.
Thats 7x the recipe.
Have you ever grated that much ginger on a microplane?
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Let me tell you, it takesforeverrrr.
In the process, I memorized the recipe.
And when I got to taste one of the cookies, I was a goner.
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It was the best cookie I’ve ever had.
They bundle everything that matters in a complex, chewy package of a few bites of sheer ecstacy.
Every element is perfectly balanced.
The rich chocolate chunks make a fitting foil for the fiery ginger.
Classic gingerbread spicescinnamon, cloves, nutmegcome through without whacking you over the head.
Best of all, chewy chocolate gingerbread cookies are, by weight, about 50 percent chocolate chunks.
The cookie dough merely binds them together.
Ive never had a cookie so chocolatey.
A bite into one rivals a chocolate truffle for intensity.
My mom in particular loved them.
We hid them from my dad and my brother.
She made a batch of her own and shared them only with her friends whod get them.
These are not cookies for those who simply want straightforward, passing gratification.
They also have, like, $12 worth of chocolate.
Seriously, it works.
Heres how to do right by chewy chocolate-gingerbread cookies.
How I Make Chewy Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies Now
I have one tweak to the recipe.
I use five ounces of bittersweet chocolate chunks and two ounces of unsweetened chocolate chunks.
Its a next-level chocolate experience for the extra-bitter set.
I prefer mine at room temperature.
However you choose to eat yours, it should be a private ritual.
Theyre one of those small indulgences that you sneak away for, like aCalgon bath.
And when you meet someone who likewise covets these cookies, you know youre dealing with a kindred spirit.
