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      Title: Deep Dark Chocolate Fudge Cookies
 Categories: Cookies, Chocolate
      Yield: 3 dozen
 
  1 1/2 c  All-purpose flour
    1/2 c  Nestle unsweetened cocoa
      1 ts Baking soda
      1 ts Salt
      8 oz Semisweet chocolate
           Broken into 1/2-oz pieces
      4 oz Unsweetened chocolate
           Broken into 1/2-oz pieces
  1 1/2 c  Tightly packed light brown
           -sugar
     12 tb Unsalted butter
      3    Eggs
      1 ts Vanilla
 
     Preheat oven to 325F. Sift together the flour, cocoa,
  baking soda, and salt onto waxed paper. Set aside   Heat 1
  inch of water in the bottom half of a double boiler over
  medium heat.  Place the semisweet and the unsweetened
  chocolate in the top half of the double boiler.  Tightly
  cover the top with film wrap and allow toheat for 12 to 15
  minutes.  Remove form heat and stir until smooth.  Keep at
  room temperature until needed.
  
     Place the light brown sugar and butter in the bowl of an
  electric mixer fitted with a paddle.  Beat on medium for 1
  minute.  Scrape down the bowl and beat on high for an
  additional 30 seconds.  Scrape down bowl.  Add the eggs,
  one at a time, while beating on medium and stopping to
  scrape down bowl after incorporating each addition.  Add
  the vanilla and beat on medium for 30 seconds.  Add the
  melted chocolate and beat on low for 10seconds.  Scrape
  down bowl and beat an additional 30 seconds.  Add the
  sifted flour, cocoa, and baking soda and beat on low until
  thoroughly combined, about 20 to 30 seconds.  Remove the
  bowl from the mixer and mixthoroughly with a rubber spatula.
  
     Portion 6 to 8 cookies per baking sheet by dropping 2
  level tbsp. of batter per cookie onto each of 2 non-stick
  baking sheets.  Place the cookies on the top and middle
  shelves of the preheated oven and bake for 18 to 22minutes,
  rotating sheets from top to bottom about halfway through
  the baking time.  Allow the cookies to cool for 5 to 6
  minutes on the baking sheets.  Transfer the cookies to a
  cooling rack to thoroughly cool before storing in a sealed
  plastic container.  Repeat the procedure until all the
  cookies have been baked.
    
  Source: Death by Chocolate TV show on the Learning Channel
  
  Posted by Ken Strei
  
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