Ever since delighting in a spicy hot chocolate at MarieBelle in New York during one fiercely cold Christmas shopping trip, I have been all about the chile-chocolate combo. There have been guajillo mochas and chile chocolate bars and, now, a chocolate chip cookie with bits and pieces of finely chopped roasted, stemmed and seeded chile peppers. It’s a subtle heat that counters the rich dark chocolate chips and buttery cookie dough. I thought it would be the perfect dessert for the barbecue party my parents threw when we were all home for Christmas!
Chocolate Chile Chip Cookies
Makes 27 cookies
From: Melissa’s Hatch Chile Cookbook
8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
2 Hatch or Anaheim chiles, roasted, peeled, stemmed, seeded and finely chopped
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Use a handheld mixer or stand mixer to cream together the butter and sugars until smooth. Beat in the eggs, then stir in the vanilla.
2. Stir in the flour, baking soda and salt, then mix in the chocolate chips and chiles.
3. Drop the dough by large spoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake until the cookies begin to brown, about 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
Lekkie Barker, you ARE the perfect combo of sweet, moist and hot! Is that appropriate feedback for this platform? Most likely not.
I was just trolling through your archives, and I’m pretty hopeful you and Dorian will come visit in Midcoast Maine next summer and I will try to make YOU the blueberry streusel coffeecake one morning! Your photos are really really top notch…”make me want a grilled cheese and tomato soup real bad” (did ya ever see Meggie imitate Jennifer Coolidge on Legally Blonde 2?) Oh well, over and out. Have a great New Years and good 2017. XO
Absolutely it is! Thanks for adding a little color to this thing 🙂
That sounds like an invitation?? That would be a lot of fun…blueberry streusel coffeecake and lobster rolls. I know Maine is so pretty at that time of year. Megs is always telling me so. Let’s try to make it happen! If not for the coffeecake and lobsta than certainly for the Jennifer Coolidge impression! Happy New Year Betty Loo! Sending hugs and kisses!