Quadruple Chocolate Cookies
Quadruple Chocolate Cookies are outrageously delicious and perfect for all the chocoholics in your life! Rich and chewy, they can’t be beat.
These Chocolate Cookies with Chocolate Chips are no ordinary chocolate chip cookies. With Dutch-process cocoa and 3 kinds of chocolate chips, every bite is a chocolate extravaganza!!
Why You Must Make
When I saw the name of these cookies on a foodies website, I knew I had to bake them ASAP.
- What chocoholic can resist baking cookies with FOUR types of chocolate!!
- They’re soft, chewy, brownie-like cookies.
- They’re filled with THREE delicious flavors of chocolate chips!
Ingredient Notes
- Kitchen Staples – Sugar, Flour, Baking Soda, Salt
- Butter – I used salted; have it at room temperature for easy incorporation.
- Vanilla Extract – Always use real vanilla extract. Artificially flavored vanilla won’t impart a true vanilla flavor. I use the Nielsen-Massey brand.
- Eggs – Use large eggs. Set them on a counter an hour or two before you plan to make the dough. Having them at room temperature helps for easier incorporation.
- Dutch Process Cocoa Powder – This is not the same as Hershey’s regular cocoa powder. It has been treated with an alkali which neutralizes cocoa’s natural acidity. I used the Droste brand.
- Chocolate Chips – I used the Ghirardelli brand and added white chocolate chips, semi-sweet chocolate chips, and milk chocolate chips. You can add 3 cups of one type of chocolate chips or any variety you prefer.
How to Make
Recipe Tips
Quality ingredients make the best cookies. Look for Dutch-process cocoa powder instead of ordinary cocoa powder. More on the differences between the two below.
- If you’re making these rich chocolate cookies for a special occasion, buy one of the more pricey brands of chocolate chips. The Nestle brand will work well, but splurge if you’re able.
- Guittard, Scharffen Berger and even Ghirardelli chocolate chips often rate better in taste tests.
- Start with room-temperature butter and eggs for the best incorporation of ingredients.
- Use a cookie disher if you want consistent-sized cookies. This way they’ll all be done baking at the same time.
- These will come out of the oven looking slightly underbaked. This ensures a chewy chocolate cookie. The residual heat from the baking sheet will continue to bake the cookies as they cool.
- When you add your dry ingredients, don’t over mix as this will activate the gluten and make a less tender cookie. Using a wooden spoon for this step allows for mixing instead of beating.
- PRO-Tip: One of my favorite cookie-making tips is to use a spatula to reshape your cookies as soon as they come out of the oven. Even if you roll the into perfect balls, they often don’t bake into perfect rounds. Tapping around the perimeter of any misshapen cookies will help improve their appearance. An alternative is to use a round cookie cutter a couple of sizes larger than your baked cookies to nudge the cookies into nice rounds.
- PRO-Tip: If giving as gifts or making for a special occasion, reserve some of the chocolate chips and carefully press 2 or 3 into each fresh from the oven cookie to give them a bakery-like appearance.
Frequently Asked Questions
Dutch-processed cocoa powder is a version of cocoa that goes through a process of alkalinization which brings the pH to 7. This change in chemistry means it isn’t always interchangeable with regular cocoa powder. It’s also lighter in color and milder in flavor than regular cocoa powder.
According to Serious Eats: Since Dutch-process cocoa isn’t acidic, it doesn’t react with alkaline leaveners like baking soda to produce carbon dioxide. That’s why recipes that use Dutch-process cocoa are usually leavened with baking powder, which has a neutral pH. But this recipe is the exception as these cookies use baking soda.
Yes! This cookie dough is loaded with 4 cups of 3 varieties of chocolate chips. I used a mix but feel free to add 4 cups of one type of chocolate chips or 2 cups of two varieties instead.
Lambeau, our first dog, eyeing the chocolate cookie dough balls. She was disappointed to learn that puppies aren’t allowed to sample anything containing chocolate!
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Quadruple Chocolate Cookies Recipe
Chocolate cookies flavored with cocoa powder and 3 kinds of chocolate chips!
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cups butter, at room temperature
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 3 cups flour
- ¾ cup Dutch-process cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups white chocolate chips*
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips*
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar till light and fluffy. Add eggs and mix till incorporated, then mix in vanilla.
- Sift in flour, cocoa powder, soda, and salt. Mix just till blended.
- Add the chips and stir in by hand.
- Drop by rounded tablespoons or use 1 ¾-2 inch diameter cookie scoop to dish out dough onto a prepared baking sheet. Pat rounds down lightly before baking.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes. The cookies will not look or feel done when you take them out of the oven.
- Allow to cool on the baking sheet, then remove to rack.
Notes
Recipe adapted from George Geary.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
32Serving Size:
1 cookieAmount Per Serving: Calories: 278Total Fat: 14gSaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 34mgSodium: 132mgCarbohydrates: 35gFiber: 1gSugar: 24gProtein: 3g
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This post was originally shared in December 2010. Text and photos were updated in 2019, and 2024.
24 Comments on “Quadruple Chocolate Cookies”
Chip, Chip Hooray!!
Yum times four! I really, really want one! Or twenty-seven! Ha! Didn’t know that about the Dutch processed cocoa powder. Good to know! 🙂 ~Valentina
Dear Liz, what a treat of a chocolate cookie – of course, you are so right about the quality ingredients. Good ingredients make for delicious results. I can only imagine that these Quadruple Chocolate Cookies would taste totally irrestible with Belgian chocolate (which happens to be my personal favorite chocolate).
Andrea
very nice dish
Like all of your baked good, these look awesome and would satisfy the chocolate lovers in my family. I’m not baking as much anymore because the reno is finally finished but I’ll tuck this away for a rainy day.
The only thing I love more than a chocolate chip cookie is a quadruple chocolate chip cookie! The mix of the white chocolate chips, the milk chocolate, and the semi-sweet chips is to-die-for!!
You had me at chocolate and then you threw the quadruple in?! Omgoodness, these would not last long at my house, love the chocolate heaven!! Pinning! xo
Sounds like a very flavorful cookie! Love Lambeau:@)
Chocolate is everyones favorite here and this one is a bonus by adding the white chocolate. It will be a huge hit with the kids!
You can never have too many chocolate cookie recipes. These look incredibly yummy!
Yup, Kelly, this recipe is a keeper!
Thanks, Rhandi…hope you get a chance to make them for your mom 🙂
Great recipe! You just can’t go wrong with all of that chocolate! These are my mom’s idea of pure heaven, I may have to make them when she comes up fo Christmas.
Oh yum, another recipe to try!
Thanks, Lora!!!
Marie, I’m having the same problem…Fresh Market used to carry Droste, but it hasn’t been on their shelves in months. I’ll let you know if I find a source.
PS…my pantry isn’t large, but I have a baking cabinet with a shelf designated for chocolate 🙂
Just how big IS your pantry? I cannot find Dutch-process cocoa anymore…anywhere, not even at Whole Foods Market. If it were something these Texans put on BBQ, it would be everyplace. Keeping the recipe, cause eventually, I’ll find some!
Thanks, Linda…lots of chocolate this week. Then I start my holiday baking!!
Thanks, Chelsea 🙂
I’m a sucker for a good chocolate cookie! These look like they’re right up my alley!
Veronica…hope you get a chance to try these!
Thanks, Lindsey! That’s exactly how I felt 🙂
These looks wonderful Lizzy!
Those cookies are calling my name!!! They look so delicious and I absolutely love all of the different kinds of chocolate. YUM!