Buttermilk Chocolate Cookies from Tasty Kitchen

Buttermilk Chocolate Cookies - made dough June 9, 2024 from Tasty Kitchen 

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup cocoa powder

1/2 cup butter, melted

2 cups granulated sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

2/3 cup buttermilk

2 cups chocolate chips

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt.
3. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the cocoa powder and melted butter, mixing on low speed until smooth.
4. Add granulated sugar, vanilla and buttermilk, mixing until combined. Add dry ingredients in two additions, mixing on low speed after each addition, until combined. Stir in chocolate chips.
5. Portion into golf-ball size dough balls and flatten slightly into thick discs. Evenly space on baking sheets and bake 10-12 minutes or until edges are set and middles no longer look raw.
6. Remove from oven and let rest on baking sheets for several minutes before transferring to wire rack to cool completely.

This is a good chocolate cookie recipe to make if you have some extra buttermilk that you want to use up. I usually only buy buttermilk when I make my banana bread and I always have extra to use so I keep a pinterest board where I pin recipes that use buttermilk. Whenever I have buttermilk to use up, I go to that board.

I rolled one baking sheet of dough balls in granulated sugar and left the other uncoated. Mostly because I couldn't remember if I was supposed to roll them or not and I didn't bother checking the recipe. You can do either but my taste test cookie was the non-coated one.

These are a bit rich for me. Or else my sweet tooth and my chocoholic tooth were on strike when I tried this. The outside had a slightly crisp shell and the inside was dense and fudgy. All hallmarks of a good chocolate cookie, right? They didn't spread much and had a soft bite. So I think my sweet tooth was just off as I had a couple of bites and was good. I didn't feel the need to finish the cookie. Weird, I know. It's not the cookie, it's me.