Double/Triple chocolate cookie

It’s been a while….mainly because my hard drive decided it just didn’t want to live anymore.  Thankfully my father is a Wizard and brought my laptop back to life with some memory and a new hard drive.  Not to mention that I also neglected to check the charge on the battery of my camera before Thanksgiving, so I have no “post” pictures to share.

The good news is I’ve been baking more.  I made my first attempt at a recipe from this really cool cookbook I got a while back.  Fourplay by Johnny Iuzzini is not for the faint of heart.  I decided to try something I thought would be fairly simple, and I had all the ingredients already.  Chocolate Brioche, I’ve never made regular brioche so I was kind of ‘baking blind’ if you will (for those of you who bake a lot, that was really funny.)  Overall it turned out alright-it was edible, but when you see a loaf of dark chocolate bread the last thing your mind thinks is “this won’t be sweet.”  It’s bread see, not cake, so I got mixed reactions from the taste testers.

I opted for something much tastier the other day.  Double chocolate cookies, which if you really count could be Triple, or even Quadruple if you add in 2 kinds of chocolate chips.  Needless to say they’re pretty fantastic (the child of a friend said “the best double chocolate cookie ever”) I don’t take things like that very lightly.  It is really the goal of everything I make, to make it the best ever, to get the consumers eyes to roll back, and their head drop to the side and a smile come across their face.  There is nothing better than the sound of silence while someone truly savours what is being eaten……well maybe a growled “mmmm!” to go along at the end.