Levain Copycat Chocolate Cookies (with additional topping ideas)
These cookies are so incredible you may not be able to stop whipping them up! We have added a few extra "toppings" around here that make them festive for different holidays.
Ingredients
- 1 cup cold butter cut into small cubes
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated suger
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. cornstarch
- 3/4 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 1/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 410 degrees.
- Cream the sugars and butters together on high speed for four minutes (it will turn light and fluffy). Then add the eggs one by one, mixing well.
- Mix in the baking cocoa.
- Mix in the other dry ingredients. (Melissa recommends using one cup of cake flour and 1 and a 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour, but I never have cake flour on hand and it works just fine with just the regular.) Don't over mix this part.
- Mix in the chocolate chips (I'll often stir these in by hand).
- Separate dough into 8-12 pieces (this recipe makes huge cookies). Of course, you can make them smaller if you'd like. The ones pictured on this recipe are smaller, I probably made 16.
- Put the dough loosely on the cookie sheet (not a packed-tight ball).
- Add whatever "extra toppings" you might want if desired: dip in crushed candy canes at Christmas (see photo below), mix in milk chocolate chips or peanut butter chips. You can also press in favorite m&m's or chocolate Cadbury Eggs after they are baked. You can add marshmallows to make a "s'mores" cookie. But rest-assured these are delicious just as-is without the "extras" if that's what you want!
- Bake at 410 degrees for 8-12 minutes depending on the size. Be sure not to over bake.
Notes
We are a little crazy about these cookies and change them per holiday.
At Christmas we dip the dough in crushed candy canes before putting it on the cookie sheet.
At Easter these are SO good with Cadbury eggs mixed in (I wish I had taken a picture).
For Valentine's Day, I mixed in those pink, red and white peanut butter m&m's to make them festive for the packages I sent the older kids.
Oh the delicious things you can do with cookies!
Enjoy!