TWD: Chocolate Chunkers

I had every intention of sliding through the rest of the year without blogging. Not because I don't love to post over here in my little corner of the blogosphere, I do, but because of the glut of holiday food (sweets especially) in my house. In addition to the sweets galore, time seems to be an even more precious commodity than usual these days, and I just thought that I'd pick up again in January. Then I found myself with some time today, and TWD seemed feasible. My first thought was to make the cardamom crumb cake that Jill chose last week. I'm still irritated that I missed that post. Rewinding one week after the fact smacks of cheating to me, so I tossed out that idea. I started flipping through Baking and I remembered that these cookies were the second runner up to my November rewind, chocolate is always a good choice for me, and I had all of the ingredients on hand. There you have it, my rewind for this last Tuesday of 2010 is Chocolate Chunkers.

I thought these cookies were fairly simple to get together, though there are some extra steps and dishes along the way. You have to beat the watoozie out of the eggs and sugar, and you also have to melt the chocolate and butter together. Meh. A few extra steps but really it's not a big deal. The only other sort of persnickity aspect of this recipe is the whole "one cookie sheet in the oven at a time" rule. Still, when it's all said and done, I think these little extra steps are worth it because these cookies are delicious. They're right up there with chocolate whopper drops for me (that means I liked them a whole, whole lot).

On the fourth day of Christmas . . .

My lackluster photos don't do much to make this cookie look even half as delicious as it is, but you'll just have to take my word for it:  yum, yum, and yum.  I substituted dried cranberries for the raisins, and I used chopped salted peanuts and zomygoodness, I love all of the goodies in these cookies. I think I'm going to have to take them to work with me in the morning to get them out of my reach. This could easily be a cookie that I devour all by myself.