DARK CHOCOLATE HALLOWEEN CHIP COOKIES

To make these cookies, I used Hershey’s Special Dark cocoa powder instead of regular unsweetened cocoa powder.  It makes the cookie dough almost black, it is so dark, which is perfect for Halloween!  But if you only have regular cocoa powder, you could just use that and they would still turn out delicious.  The chips I used are the holiday baking chips that Nestle makes for both Halloween and Christmas. I love, love, love them because they are so cute and make baking seasonal goodies super easy for someone like me who doesn’t fuss too much with fancy piping or other decorating techniques.  The Halloween chips are a blend of semisweet chocolate chips and orange colored white chocolate chips and I always make sure to grab a couple of bags from the seasonal aisle in Target whenever they show up each year.  They are also fun to use in place of regular chocolate chips in my soft & chewy chocolate chip cookies recipe.  But they are amazing nestled into this dark chocolate cookie dough.



Since the Halloween chips only come in black (well, chocolate, so dark brown I guess) & orange, I decided to combine them with some regular white chocolate chips for a pop of ghostly color and peanut butter chips and mini Reese’s Pieces for just a hint of peanut butter flavor.  This recipe doesn’t use the whole bag of white chocolate chips, but you can use up any extras in these White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies, which are another favorite of mine.  If you don’t want the peanut butter flavor or have allergies, just leave them out and only do the white chocolate chips instead!  I found all of these chips in the seasonal baking aisle at Target, although if you have a hard time tracking down the mini Reese’s Pieces you could always use the regular size ones.

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2/3 cup Hsershey's special dark cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2/3 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 cup Nestle Halloween baking chips
• 1/2 cup peanut butter chips
• 1/2 cup white chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup mini Reese's Pieces baking candies
• Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. In a large bowl of a stand mixer, combine the butter and sugars and beat for 3-4 minutes, until light. Add eggs and vanilla and mix well.
3. Add the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt to the other mixture and mix on low speed, just until combined.
4. ........................................

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