How to satisfy a Chocolate Craving...

So this week I have been craving chocolate like crazy. Since hubs was out of town and arriving home late last night I decided to use my time waiting on him to get home to test out a new idea for a cookie recipe. They are delicious! I am not good at taking pictures step by step cause I kind of just make up things as I go, but I will show you a few pictures of the final result along with the recipe. If you are in the mood for a chocolately cookie that is not too dense these are perfect!

Double Chocolate Nutella Cookies

1 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup nutella

6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 stick unsalted butter (melted and slightly cooled)

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 eggs

1/2 teaspoon almond extract

Preheat oven to 325*. Mix together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.

Beat nutella, melted butter, sugar, eggs, and almond extract.Slowly add in the flour mixture. Fold in chocolate chips.

Scoop cookie dough onto parchment lined baking sheets. (I use a 1-inch cookie scoop, but you could use an ice cream scoop or just a spoon) Make sure you space them a few inches apart. I fit about 8 cookies on each cookie sheet cause the spread out a bit. Bake them for about 15 minutes, until they are flattened and cracked on top.

Then let them cool, or do as I do and pop one in your mouth each time you take a cookie sheet out of the oven. Just make sure you have milk handy, which I failed to have and regret it.

Hubs suprised me when he got home with my favorite chocolate ever! A few years ago some of our dear friends were living in Belguim and we got a chance to go visit them. While there we went to many chocolate stores. This one was by far my favorite and when we moved to DC we were pleasantly suprised to find they had the only Neuhaus Chocolate shop outside of Belguim. Needless to say while we lived there I made multiple trips to fullfil my chocolate cravings. Well hubs was in DC for work and suprised me by going by there and picked me up a box of these along with a little bag of extras:

 

                                      

                                       

Yum! I am going to try my hardest to resist eating all of these in the next week. Good thing we will be having some people over tonight to eat away at the cookies. But I am keeping all the truffles for myself ;)