Dark Chocolate Dark Brown Sugar Cookies from Averie Cooks

Dark Chocolate Dark Brown Sugar Cookies - made dough December 24, 2022 from Averie Cooks 

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened

3/4 cup dark brown sugar, packed

1 large egg

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 cup unsweetened natural dark cocoa powder (I used King Arthur's black cocoa powder)

1 teaspoon cornstarch

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

pinch salt, optional and to taste

1. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 3-4 minutes. Add egg and vanilla and continue beating until well combined, scraping down sides and bottom of bowl to keep mixture even textured.
2. In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, cornstarch, baking soda and salt, if using. Add in two addition to butter mixture and mix on low speed after each addition until combined.
3. Portion into 2-tablespoon mounds, arrange on a flat plate, cover and chill in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours or overnight.
4. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees and line baking sheet with parchment paper. Evenly space cookies (they don't really spread much) and bake for 8-9 minutes or until edges have set. Do not bake longer than 10 minutes.

Happy New Year! Normally I'd stop baking and try my hand at cooking like I do every January but, also like every January, I'm still catching up from the baking recipes I tried in December so I've got some backlog posts to do. Let's start off the new year with a good one. Remember the Homemade Oreos that I didn't think tasted much like Oreos? Well, it's a little ironic that, without trying, I think I hit upon this recipe that actually does taste like the soft homemade version of Oreos and they weren't even trying to be.

I've had this recipe from Averie Cooks on my pinterest board for awhile and I'm trying to clear out recipes I've held onto for too long without trying them so I went with this one. If you don't use black cocoa, you'll likely get just a nice dark chocolate fudgy cookie. I did have and did use black cocoa and hence why I (accidentally) ended up with something closer to homemade Oreo cookies, sans filling.

Mine didn't look like Averie Cooks' on her blog but these were still good fudgy chocolate cookies. That tasted a little like Oreos, thanks to the black cocoa. I might have to try to make this as a thinner cookie and sandwich them with a vanilla buttercream to come up with a genuine, if accidental, version of homemade Oreos.