I have been absolutely craving cookies recently and no other dessert will satisfy so when I stumbled upon a video on Facebook for triple chocolate chip cookies I knew I had to make them. Based on the video, this is a true case of “triple chocolate” unlike some box mixes we have encountered. Id argue to say it’s quadruple chocolate but that probably wouldn’t sell as well because it sounds funny. This is a chocolate cookie with chopped up white chocolate, dark chocolate, and semi sweet chips. Since the cookie dough calls for cocoa powder, that’s four varieties of chocolate.
This recipe is pretty standard for a cookie recipe. Cream the sugars and butter together, then mix in the egg and vanilla, and finish with the combined dry ingredients. This recipe uses primarily brown sugar and includes espresso powder. Each one of these inclusions are small easy ways to make a cookie just a bit better so I am excited to see both in this recipe.
I chopped up half a white chocolate bar, half a semi sweet chocolate bar, and included semi sweet chunks instead of chips since it’s what I had on hand. The dough was really tasty and had a deep chocolate flavor from the espresso combining with the cocoa. I recently got a new cocoa powder and it makes a world of a difference. If you bake often, I highly recommend getting a Dutch processed cocoa powder and looking for the highest percentage of fat content, meaning cocoa butter, as it adds richness, moisture, and flavor to your desserts. A 20% fat content is ideal for your cocoa powder.
The recipe calls for chilling the dough for at least an hour but ideally 3 hours or overnight. I put it in the fridge and promptly forgot about it so my dough had 7 hours of chill time before baking. Then I realized I didn’t know the size of the cookies nor the amount it was supposed to make, these vital details were not included in the recipe. So I used my standard 1 tablespoon sized scoop and scooped out a dozen cookies and put them in to bake. The recipe called for 13-15 minutes of baking but since I didn’t know the size intended, I put the timer on for 10 minutes.
My cookies were baked at 10 minutes and they came out of the oven like thin sad pancakes. You know a cookie is way too thin when the chocolate chip is sticking up and creating a mountain on the cookie and these cookies were the perfect example of the chips being taller than the baked cookie. Typically a chilled dough wouldn’t spread this thin but clearly that did not help this dough. Now I’m left wondering about the ingredients in the recipe and what was off. I’m really thinking I need to stay off of Facebook when it comes to recipes.
The triple chocolate in this cookie is the only thing redeeming it. I’ve had box mixes better than this cookie recipe. In total I got 24 thin, crunchy, greasy, pancake like “cookies” out of this recipe. The flavor is good but the edges came out crispy and reminded me of the brownie brittle you can buy bagged at stores which would have been cheaper and more satisfying than wasting all my chocolate. The finished cookie doesn’t resemble the video at all despite following the ingredients and directions closely. These cookies were so disappointing, they didn’t even satisfy my cookie cravings.
When I search for a recipe and find a blog recipe for anything, I check the reviews and make sure it has enough good reviews to guarantee a good recipe. Unfortunately, anyone can post a recipe on Facebook or Instagram without you having any way to verify if it’s any good. I won’t say the review checking method always works, I made a peanut butter cookie the other day with a blog recipe that had all 5 star reviews and the cookies came out so poorly that I went and inspected the reviews just to find they were fake and likely created by AI as they did not make any sense whatsoever. My point is that in this day and age, the internet is full of an abundance of recipes. You could search up a triple chocolate chip cookie recipe on any search engine right now and you’d find hundreds of recipes. It’s hard to tell what’s good and what’s awful but I’m telling you this recipe, is a waste of ingredients.
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