Triple Chocolate Cookies

From the Better Homes and Gardens' Anyone Can Cook book, these tasty treats totally satisfied my chocolate craving last Wednesday evening. Jeff and I snacked on them while watching "Murder by Death," a 1976 Neil Simon classic that I highly recommend. Peter Sellers (the detective in the Pink Panther, the crazy german scientist in a wheelchair in Dr. Strangelove, etc.) is hilarious as a proverb-spouting Chinese detective with an adopted Japanese son.

But to get back to the food.

Ingredients:
7 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped (I just used semisweet choc chips)
5 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
1/2 cup butter
1/3 cup flour
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
4 eggs
1/4 cup finely chopped pecans, toasted
Chocolate Drizzle (see below)

1. In a 2-quart saucepan combine chocolates and butter. Heat and stir over low heat until smooth. Remove from heat and let cool for 10 minutes. Stir together flour, baking powder, and 1/4 tsp of salt in a small bowl and set aside.

2. In a large mixing bowl combine sugars and eggs. Beat with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 2 to 3 minutes or until color lightens slightly. Beat in melted chocolate. Add flour mixture and beat until combined. Stir in pecans. Cover surface of cookie dough with plastic wrap and let stand for 20 minutes to thicken.

3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper or foil (and spray with Pam). Drop dough by rounded teaspoons 2 inches apart onto sheets. Bake for 9 minutes or until tops are just set. Let stand 1 minute on cookie sheet. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool. Spoon Chocolate Drizzle over cookies. Makes 60 (92 calories and 6g fat each).

Chocolate Drizzle:

Combine 1 cup semisweet chocolate pieces with 4 teaspoons shortening in a small saucepan over low heat. Stir until the chocolate melts and is smooth. Remove from the heat and drizzle away.
Chocolate Drizzle