Mean Chef's Double Chocolate Chip Cookies With Pecans

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 11 ounces bittersweet chocolate or 11 ounces semisweet chocolate
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, cut into cubes
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons instant espresso powder
• 3 large eggs
• 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 12 ounces chocolate chips (about 2 cups)
• 1 3/4 cups chopped pecans

Recipe

• 1 position 1 rack in the top 1/3 and another in the bottom 1/3 of the oven and preheat to 350°f.
• 2 line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
• 3 sift together the flour, baking soda and salt into a medium bowl and set aside.
• 4 melt the chocolate and butter in the top of a double boiler over hot, simmering water.
• 5 remove from the heat but keep the chocolate mixture over a bowl of hot water to ensure that the mixture does not set.
• 6 in a small bowl, combine the vanilla extract and the espresso powder and whisk until the espresso powder is dissolved.
• 7 stir the espresso mixture into the chocolate mixture.
• 8 combine the eggs and both sugars in the bowl of a heavy-duty electric mixer (you can double the recipe and it will fit a 5 or 6 qt mixer bowl).
• 9 set the bowl over a pan of hot, hot simmering water.
• 10 stir with a hand-held wire whisk until warm to the touch.
• 11 attach the bowl to the mixer stand.
• 12 using the wire whip attachment, whip the mixture on high speed until pale, thickened and cool, about 5 minutes.
• 13 fold into the warm chocolate mixture.
• 14 fold in the flour.
• 15 stir in the chocolate chips and pecans.
• 16 drop the dough by rounded tablespoons onto the 2 prepared pans leaving about 1 to 1/2 inches between the cookies (at work i make these a lot bigger so that they come out about 5 inches across).
• 17 bake for 12-14 minutes or until the cookies are set: switch the positions of the baking sheets halfway through the baking time for even baking.
• 18 cool the cookies on the baking sheets on wire racks for about 3 minutes, then transfer the cookies to wire racks to cool completely.
• 19 repeat with the remaining dough.