Project 365: 14-Feb-2014

Death By Chocolate XXL Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich

This is the dessert I prepared for Mr. Boyfriend and I for our very cheesy Valentine's Day. We went overboard cheesy, seriously! He made me my favourite pizza - quattro formaggi com fungi and believe me nothing says "I love you" in a cheesier way than the four types of cheese on your pizza. I, on the other hand, made my famous Death by Chocolate cookies, but this time in a XXL version. You'll find the recipe below. And just for a final pinch of cheesiness after dinner we watched "The Avengers" -because we are that cool. And now we are finishing our second bottle of wine while adding some final touches to the end of the working week.

So, as promised, here is the recipe for the best cookies you could ever have!

Ingredients:

For the Cookies:

4 tbs room temperature butter
4 tbs normal white sugar
4bs brown sugar (I prefer light)
1 beaten egg
1 tsp rum
1/2 cup white flour
8 tbs cocoa powder, unsweetened
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup chocolate chips + more for sprinkling

For the Filling:

Few spoonfuls of your favourite Ice Cream (left out of the freezer 5 minutes prior)

How To:

Mix well the butter with the white and the brown sugar.
When it looks and feels like a creamy paste add the egg and the rum and stir well. You may have to stir for a good 5 minutes before the paste absorbs the egg and rum completely.
In a separate bowl mix the flour, salt, cocoa powder and the baking powder. I usually use more cocoa powder than what the recipe says since I believe than you can never have enough cocoa. The more, the better.
Next, as you may guess, is mixing the contents of the bows together. Again - stir well and don't use a mixer. Do it by hand with a fork -it will create smaller mess and the results will be better.
Add the chocolate chips in the mixture and you are ready for the over. Well .... almost.
Line a flat baking tray with baking paper (or silicone matt if you have one) and on the two opposite ends of the tray place two mounts of the batter. Depending on how big you want the cookies to be you can either divide the whole mixture to two or not. Mines were the result of 1 1/2 tbs of batter. That gave me the opportunity of making a few smaller for my room-mates.
Put the rest of the chocolate chips on top of the cookies.
Bake for 15 minutes at 175C/350F and let cool for another 20. When you take them out of the over they will be rather soft but not to worry - the cooling will make them soft on the inside but crispy on the outside.
When they are completely cooled cover the inside of one of them with Ice Cream and cover with the other.
And this is it. Share with someone you love.
Before going in the oven