Ping - Ragmop

Just to save you, I ate them all (well most of them,anyway). Yep, first one was crunchy, yep so was the second...do you see a pattern here? I'm hoping that Ragmop will send me the directions so I can save you again. Donna in Bellevue

Howdy!

Not marking this Off Topic because it's CHOCOLATE!! and these are delicious before & after quilting... and during, too. ;-D

Hershey's Chewy Chocolate Cookies:

(recipe below, too)

...hmmm.. that gives me an idea...

Thanks for asking, Donna!

btw, the home page for those RCTQ recipes:

Ragm> I NEED your recipe for chocolate cookies. I have the ingredient list but

Chewy Chocolate Cookies Hershey's Cocoa 5-minute Recipe for Chewy Chocolate Cookies

1 1/4 cups (2 1/2 sticks) butter or margarine (softened) 2 cups sugar 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 2 cups all purpose flour 3/4 cup Hershey's cocoa 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup finely chopped nuts (optional)

Heat oven to 350 degrees F. In large bowl, beat butter & sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. Stir together flour, cocoa, bakind soda, and salt. (I sift the dry ingredients together to remove lumps from the cocoa.) Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture, beating until well blended. Stir in nuts, if desired.

Drop by rounded teaspoonsful onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 9 minutes. (DO NOT overbake. Cookies will be soft. They will puff during baking, then flatten when cooling.) Cool on cookie sheet until set, about 1 minute; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely. (They say) makes about 4 1/2 dozen cookies.

Thanks, Ragmop. That is exactly what I needed. Now to try again. Donna in Bellevue

Howdy!

You are so giving and caring, Friend Donna, eating all those cookies so we don't have to suffer an attack of the crunchy cookie crumbles.

I think the secret is to under-bake them just a bit, then take them off the hot cookie sheet right away (I use baking stones; they stay hot for hours); I like to let cookies cool on (clean) newspaper on the kitchen counters.

Mmmm, I can almost smell those cookies now. It's a "quick" recipe: more time for quilting.

R/Sandy - passed up a piece of raspberry w> Just to save you, I ate them all (well most of them,anyway). Yep, first one

Without checking sounds much like the recipe I have...waaaay to good. It's a shame I've sworn off flour/sugar (except in extreme emergencies). Anymore I only bake at Christmas and for DH's birthday. I did, however, have to endulge tonight with tiramisu and something else (couldn't quite make out the Italian) for our 20th anniversary. Unfortunately for DH, they kind of ignored him after I asked which of the 2 I was contemplating was better. They gave us both - neither of which was DH's preference. Oh well. We'll be eating ourselves silly in Baltimore, MD this weekend. Real crab cakes...can't wait!

Kim in NJ

I'm very happy to help out my friends when I can.

I sort of figured out that I needed to underbake them but I was trying to multitask and it wasn't working really well. I sometimes take a paper grocery bag and cut it open for cooling cookies. I learned that at my mommy's knee or elbow or other body part of your choice. I learned a lot from my mother, most of it good. She did know how to have fun, and that I learned too.

Please do not blame me for causing you to give up your raspberry wine cake. It was out of necessity, right? More cookies can then be consumed and as Martha would say "It's a good thing".

Enjoy your cookies, Mopster, and thanks for the details.

Donna