I’ve been meaning to make these for awhile and Caleb actually bought a kitchen scale so it was the perfect time to break out the recipe for Alton Brown’s Chocapocalypse cookies. Don’t be fooled by the maze of recipe links on the food network site because they just lead to chocolate chocolate chip cookies with walnuts. This is the real recipe from the Good Eats season 8 special. Of course, Alton does his baking recipes by weight so I could try to convert them to rough cup measurements but the point was the be exact so I was stalling on these cookies. Luckily I got to use Caleb’s scale in exchange for cookies and gave these guys a shot.
I know I’ve said I don’t really like eating chocolate that much but that doesn’t mean I can’t bake chocolate things. I just don’t tend to eat them. Sharing is caring and no one is complaining so I’ll keep doing what I’m doing.
This was the first time I’ve used baking chocolate in bars and it was a trick for sure but I felt petty legit hacking away at a bar. I didn’t have much success chopping it especially in a relatively cold house but I did make a ton of noise if that’s what you want to call a success. So my chocolate chunks were probably larger than intended but it worked out overall. These cookies are seriously chocolatey and there’s a lot of dark 100% chocolate so I’ve been warning people but they’re still really good. It’s a super easy cookie to make and my batch yielded 18 cookies which isn’t too bad. I’m pretty sure I portion a little larger generally but that’s okay. Fewer cookies to give away this time. They baked off super evenly and crisp up really well. I probably could’ve gone a couple more minutes to get them a little crisper and a little less soft in the middle but these were still good especially after they cooled and set a little more. Those chocolate chunks were pretty large too so that also too a little while to set and getting a bite of dark chocolate in the middle of a dark chocolate cookie is sharp.
Basically, these are easy and fun to make but need a safety warning before eating.