J'aime le Chocolat

When I was taking French I my last semester of college, the first thing we learned to say we loved was chocolate. J’aime le chocolat. Our professor went around asking everyone individually, “tu aimes le chocolat?” to which everyone vigorously nodded and responded “oui, oui, j’aime le chocolat!” Except for me. Je n’aime pas le chocolat. Lets be honest here, I’m not about to turn down a brownie or anything drastic like that. But I am also not the type to be upset if one of my housemates mistakenly eats the last of my stash of Dove chocolates. Nor do I even have a stash of Dove chocolates. There is no situation in which I would pick a chocolate dessert over a fruit tart at dinner, and a bowl full of M&Ms can sit next to me for days without disappearing… the same can’t be said for a bowl of popcorn.

Needless to say, I was in a bit of a conundrum when, about to bake a nice apple pie for a friend’s birthday, my friend told me she hated pie and wanted something chocolatey. I’ve never baked anything chocolatey. I wasn’t even sure what that entailed, so I turned to tastespotting.com for help. I found what seemed like a simple recipe (until I noticed the measurements were in grams), and went to work with the help of my friend Alli, a fellow dessert connoisseur – and one that aimes chocolat, at that.

The cookies were surprisingly easy to make. The dough was a weird consistency, and I had my doubts that they would crack like the recipe assures me they would, but in the end, even I have to admit they were delicious (and aesthetically pleasing). The recipe can be found here: http://noobletpatissier.blogspot.com/2010/06/double-chocolate-cookies.html.

The best part about it is that it is wonderfully foolproof. Even hacking an unmeasured amount of a 113g stick of butter to make it (approximately) 100g, and eyeballing 37/56ths of a square of baker’s chocolate didn’t affect the cookies. I might not always aime le chocolat, but I sure did love these cookies.