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Chocolate Chocolate-Chip Butter Balls

Source of Recipe


Gourmet, January 1986






List of Ingredients



• 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, softened
  
• 2/3 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
  
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
  
• 1 large egg, beaten lightly
  
• 2 cups unbleached flour
  
• 1/8 tsp salt
  
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  
• 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
  






Instructions



1. In a large bowl, cream the butter; beat in brown sugar, and beat mixture until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla and egg.
   
   
2. In a bowl, combine flour, salt and cocoa powder; stir the mixture into the butter mixture, and stir in the chocolate chips.
   
   
3. With damp hands, roll rounded teaspoons of batter into 1-inch balls. Bake the balls 1 inch apart on buttered baking sheets in preheated 350° F oven for 20 minutes, and transfer them to racks to cool.
   
   Makes about 60 cookies.