I recently recommended that Kelly, in her search for the best cookies ever, try this recipe for chocolate cookies with chunks of Maya Gold chocolate in them. I hadn't actually tried the recipe myself, but it looked yummy. Kelly took the bait, made the cookies and wrote a wonderfully detailed post about the making of the cookies. She concluded that, good as they are, the Rolo cookie recipe we got from In the Left Lane is still better.
So I decided I should do my own comparison. I'd made the Rolo cookies for DS to take to school for his birthday and had THREE adults want the recipe, so you know they are good. DH had given me some Green & Black's Maya Gold for Valentine's Day but on looking more closely at the recipe I realized that one 3.5 ounce bar wasn't going to go very far when the recipe called for a POUND of chocolate! That's $12.50 worth of Maya Gold, when it's on sale. $15 when it's not. I was thinking these had better be some freakingly awesome cookies!
I decided I had to try them anyway. Kelly had warned that the dough got hard to mix at the end, and boy was she right! Getting the last of the flour incorporated took a lot of effort - and then I still had to mix in the chocolate chunks. I'd decided to go with four bars of the Maya gold and it turned out to be plenty. I wasn't sure that I had the right kind of chili powder so I only added 1/8 of a teaspoon.
For all the effort, they were worth it! The kids love them. I love them too, but can actually eat just one at a time. (I really didn't believe Kelly when she said one at a time was enough!) The kids were eating them for a treat this morning when we were out and someone walking by commented on how good the cookies smelled! And although the recipe said "makes 24 cookies", I made up the whole batch and got not 24 but 44 perfectly sized cookies. Again, I should have listened when Kelly said she put half the dough in the freezer, or perhaps the sheer quantity of ingredients should have clued me in!
Our conclusion - yes, they were great, but for 'everyday' cookies we liked the Rolo cookies better!
4 comments:
Thanks for the link the the Rolo cookies...they sound delicious. I can't get Rolos here (I love Rolos) but I'm going to look for a substitute.
When you make a batch of rollo cookies, freeze a bunch of them on a cookie sheet, then put in a zip lock bag in the freezer. You will have instant access to chocolate deliciousness. Time their serving to be 10 minutes from the oven and you have sheer perfection.
Glad to hear that Rolo cookies continue to bring joy and happiness :)
They sound delicious and I love Rolos. But I have to say that my favorites are still the good old-fashioned Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chip cookies. One is definitely not enough!
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