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chocolate chubbies


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"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse

"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb

"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron

"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__Elsa Schiaparelli

"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child

"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio

"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare

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Chocolate Chubbies

Ingredients:
8 oz semisweet chocolate [8 squares]
3 oz unsweetened chocolate [3 squares]
1/2 cup unsalted butter
3 large eggs, at room temperature
1 and 1/4 cups white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2/3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon bakin' powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 and 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 and 1/2 cups walnuts, chopped
1 and 1/2 cups pecans, chopped

Instructions:
1) Preheat oven to 325�F and grease 3 cookie sheets.
2) Melt the chocolate with the butter in a double boiler
over simmerin' water. Cool to room temperature.
3) In a large mixin' bowl, vigorously beat the eggs with the sugar
'til smooth.
4) Beat in the chocolate mixture and the vanilla.
5) Combine the flour, bakin' powder and salt in a separate bowl
and stir into the chocolate mixture just 'til combined.
Be careful not to over-mix.
6) Gently stir in the chocolate chips and nuts.
7) Drop batter by quarter cupfuls 2" apart onto the greased
cookie sheets. Don't flatten!
8) Bake 10 to 12 minutes or 'til barely firm with tops that are just dry
and slightly cracked.
9) Cool on the cookie sheets for two minutes,
then gently transfer to wire racks 'til completely cooled.

Yield: approximately 2 dozen, big ass cookies. OR, 3 dozen normal cookies if you drop 'em onto the sheets by tabelspoonfuls, 2" apart.

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