Why chocolate cookies?

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• Because they’re chocolate and their cookies!
• Because they’re about as simple a cookie as you can make!
• Because they’re fun and delicious!  

And you can add frosting and it’s the best of all worlds.  This recipe is so easy and so good!  There aren’t a ton of ingredients and there’s no shaping.  You just drop them on the pan and plop them in the oven.

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Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Baking Time: 8-10 minutes
Yields: Approximately 24 cookies (depends on how big you make them, my Gramma always made them kind of on the small side)

Ingredients:

1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup brown sugar
2 large eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder or 2 squares bitter chocolate melted
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Tools:

Mixing bowls (one for wet ingredients, one for dry ingredients)
Electric stand mixer or hand mixer
Baking sheets
Parchment paper or silicone baking mats
Cookie scoop or spoon
Cooling rack or wax paper if you’re old school like me (HA!)

Directions:

1. Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C) and line baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
 
2. In a mixing bowl, combine the dry ingredients.  Whisk these together until they are well combined. Set this dry mixture aside.

3. In another mixing bowl, cream the softened butter and brown sugar together until the mixture is well combined.

4. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.  Then add the milk.

5. Gradually add the dry mixture to the wet mixture, mixing on low speed until combined. 

6. Using a cookie scoop or spoon, drop mounds of dough onto the prepared baking sheets, leaving some space between each cookie. 

7. Bake in the preheated oven for 8-10 minutes, or until the cookies are set and the edges are slightly firm. The centers may still appear soft, but they will continue to firm up as they cool.

8. Remove the cookies from the oven and let them cool on the baking sheets for a few minutes before transferring them to a cooling rack or wax paper.

My gramma and my mom both liked to frost these with either chocolate frosting or powdered sugar frosting (powdered sugar and water, add food coloring for festive colors on holidays).  I really like them without frosting.