Triple-Chocolate Cookies

Triple-chocolate cookies are a decadent riff on classic chocolate chip cookies. Three types of chocolate—unsweetened, bittersweet, and semisweet—are blended together for a complex flavor and chewy texture. In theory, they sound great, but most of the recipes we found delivered one-dimensional flavor with an unpleasantly gooey texture that we would be hard pressed to call a cookie—more like uncooked brownie batter. We wanted a chocolate cookie with a complex flavor and the chewy (but dense) texture of, well, a cookie. Here’s what we discovered:

Test Kitchen Discoveries

• Use the creaming method of blending the ingredients to achieve a dense, chewy texture. Beat the sugar and butter together until smooth, thick, and pale before adding the melted chocolate and flavorings. Fold the dry ingredients (blended together in a separate bowl) into the wet ingredients carefully.
• Add coffee powder and a lot of vanilla to lend dimension to the deep chocolate flavor.
• Allowing the soft cookie dough to sit at room temperature for a few minutes will firm it up enough so that it can be portioned neatly.