White chocolate chunk Smoked Sea Salt Chocolate Cookies

Happy first day of national Cookie month … err not really, but  something like that.

December 1^st – it might as well be known as the first day of national cookie month. Welcome to a world where twitter, Instagram, pinterest, facebook, restaurants, grocery stores and every bakery will be bursting at its seams with cookies … and obviously, it’s only right that I do my part.

There are only nine million reasons I love this time of year, and way up there on that list is the excessive amount of cookies that can be found. Today, I have the fudgiest most adult cookies I’ve probably ever made. Smoked Sea Salt will do that to a cookie … make it grow up lickity-spilt.

And it’s gooooooooooooooooooooooood. And superfudgy. And HELLOO … white chocolate Chunks – we’re not talking chips, we’re talking CHUNKS!! … And it’s sophisticated. Something I would serve on fine china, with flutes of milk as I prance around wearing paper crowns from firecrackers … Class with a capital “C”

White chocolate chunk Smoked Sea Salt Chocolate Cookies

Ingredients

1/2 cup olive oil

3/4 cup granulated sugar

¼ cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1/2 cup flour

1 cup cocoa powder

1 tsp smoked sea salt

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp instant coffee powder

1 tbsp hot water

1 tsp vanilla

1 cups white chocolate chunks

Smoked sea salt to sprinkle

  

Instructions

In a bowl, add the olive oil and sugars and mix until well combined.

Add the eggs.

Add the cocoa powder, flour, smoked salt and beat until a dough forms

In a small bowl, dissolve the baking soda, and coffee into the hot water. Add dissolved baking soda and vanilla and beat until well combined.

Stir in the chocolate chunks.

 

Preheat oven to 350

Use a cookie scoop to scoop out heaping tablespoons onto your prepared baking sheets and sprinkle with sea salt.

Bake for 10 minutes for a chewy cookie, or 13 for a slightly crunchier one.

 Let cool completely on the baking sheets then transfer to a wire rack to cool.

Let the cookie craze begin!! … I want to know, what’s your favourite holiday cookies to make?

Double Chocolate Chip Nutella Guinness Bread

  

Chocolate + Booze + the weekend.

This is my kinda paaarr-taaayy!!

Cheers to the weekend sweethearts …

After a long week of hustling through the rat race … all a girl wants to do is get reacquainted with some chocolate – a splash ( or two ) of alcohol doesn’t hurt and carbs make it all better.

Technically, I need this bread in my life. I don’t even know if I can call it a bread to be honest, it’s quite cake-like. But, I’m of course thinking ahead … if I call it bread, and due to the fact that I added oats … it’s TOTALLY breakfast food …. or something like that. Can I convince you it’s healthy ? pushing it? – sorry.

But breakfast, that works!! Oh yess …. chocolate and booze before 9:00 am. We got a deal 🙂

I originally made this bread for St. Patty’s day … and then I had to make it twice since. Can I let you in on a little secret ? – Papa LTSL is like a chocolate Hoover Vacuum … he sniffs it out, and consumes it in the blink of an eye. Truth is, I love that man – – I suggest I keep him around for a while.

My dad and I we have a pretty good thing going, I bake … experiment to my hearts desire and he eats. Even the unsuccessful recipes, he’ll at least try. I remember when I was a lot younger, I burnt scrambled eggs ( yes it’s possible … stop laughing) and he ate every bit of it. I’m sure it was the most disgusting thing ever … but he did. If that doesn’t qualify for him to be my superhero … I don’t know what will.

So, shall we get a slice on what all the jazz is about? – Let’s bake!!

Double Chocolate Chip Nutella Guinness Bread

2 1/4 Cups Flour

1/4 Cup Cocoa Powder

1/2 Tsp Sea Salt

4 Tsp Baking Powder

1/4 Cup Quick Oats + 1 Tbsp ( keep separate)

2/3 Cups Brown Sugar

1 1/2 Cups Dark Guinness

1/4 Cup Nutella

1/2 Cup White Chocolate Chips

1/2 Cup Chocolate Chips

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 oc – prepare loaf pan.

In a large bowl sift together flour, cocoa powder, sea salt, 1/4 cup of oats and brown sugar.

 

In a small bowl, whisk together Guinness and Nutella.

Add your Guinness mixture to your dry ingredients. Mix well.

Add both kinds of chocolate chips. Fill prepared pan, top with 1 tbsp Oats and bake for 45 minuets.

Allow to cool and enjoy!!

Have a fantastic weekend Ladies and Gents – – stay sweet

xox