Triple Chocolate Chip Goldmine Cookies

A rich gooey cookie with a mix of Milk, White and Dark chocolate Chips, and a sparkle of gold dust filling the cracks that melts in the mouth, which means they are far too amazing to just eat one....

So, I've been dieting for a few days to try and lose some holiday weight, but I admit. I caved. And these seemed to be be the perfect solution. It's a slight variation on a Nigella recipe, and although she prescribes these cookies them for mopping up tears of sadness, they seemed pretty good as the golden sunshine at the end of a long day :D Dead easy to make, I think I'm going to be making more very soon...

Ingredients; (Makes about 12-16 Cookies)

• 125g Dark chocolate minimum 70% cocoa solids
• 150g Plain Flour
• 30g Cocoa powder sieved
• 3/4 tsp Bicarbonate of soda 
• 125g Butter soft
• 75g Light brown sugar
• 50g White sugar
• 1 tsp Vanilla extract
• 1 Medium Egg, cold from the fridge
• 150g Milk chocolate chips
• 100g Dark Chocolate Chips
• Gold Dust (optional)

Method
Preheat the oven to gas mark 3/ 170'C / 325'F and melt the 175g of chocolate in a double boiler, or, if you're feeling really lazy, you could do it in the microwave. While the chocolate is melting, put the flour, cocoa and bicarb of Soda into a bowl. Put this to the side, and you don't need to mix. Cream the butter and both the white and brown sugar in another bowl. Now add in the melted chocolate and mix them together. Add in the egg and vanilla extract and mix. Then add the dry ingredients and stir these with a wooden spoon. Now for the best part, add the chocolate chips to make the best cookie batter ever!!!! Use an ice-cream scoop to gather heaps of mixture and smooth them with a palette knife then put them on a lined baking tray about 6cm apart. DON'T SQUASH THEM!!!! They will melt down themselves :) Cook in the heated oven for about 18-20 minutes. Test them with a knife, and you want them still slightly gooey, so don't wait until no mixture is on the knife. Sprinkle with Gold Dust if desired. Leave to cool for about 5 minutes and feast to you're heart's content!

Add the chocolate in the bowl. I already boiled the water so it didn't take to long to heat up enough in the saucepan

Sieve the Powder to add air and make it mix together better

Make sure the chocolate mixture has no lumps and leave it in the bowl so it doesn't stop melting

Adding all the dry ingredients. You don't need to mix these

Measuring the butter and sugars into a bowl

Cream the butter and sugar by using the spoon to scrape the mixture across the bowl. The continue this motion  until everything is mixed

It should start to look like this

Use another spoon to pour the melted chocolate into the creamed mixture. Use as much of the chocolate as possible

Mix the smooth, runny chocolate with the butter and I dare you not to taste ;)

Add the egg and vanilla. By now you'll have a slightly grainy batter

Mix this in to give this awesome chocolatey deliciousness!!

Add the dry ingredients to the bowl and give them a good mix

This should give a thick batter to which we will add the chips

This is sooo totally the best bit, adding the chocolate chips!! Woo!

I admit that not all of the 350g went into the cookies, some I believe were misplaced.. I wonder where they went :D

Nigella said that she loved the "clattering of the chips on the side of the bowl" but I was waaay too busy smelling  and maybe tasting the mixture..

Scoop up some of the mixture in an ice-cream scoop and use a palette knife to smooth the mixture into a bit more of a ball shape

If you don't have a 'release' scoop, then use the palette knife to hook the cookiedough onto a lined baking tray

Keep going until all the balls are done. DON'T FLATTEN THEM!! I used two trays

As always, enjoy!! And please comment, I would love to know what you think

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