Thank you Susan for sending in this chocolate lover’s dream cookie! Looks yummy and easy to whip up! 

“Hi Marlene,

Enjoy these killer cookies that do a lot to help the “medicine go down”.  I have friends who come to my house for a meal because these cookies will be served.

I have also provided these cookies on the last day of the semester so even if the class has required blood, sweat & tears, my students are

rewarded at the end for hanging in (I teach at USC in Los Angeles)”. Susan T Lindau

 Triple Chocolate Espresso Cookies

• 4 oz unsweetened chocolate, chopped
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1 bag semisweet chocolate chips,
•  4 eggs divided
• 2 oz. semisweet chocolate, chopped
•   1 ½  cups sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
•  1 ½  tbs espresso powder
• 1/2 tsp bkng powder
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 1/2  tsp salt
•  1/2 c. toasted walnuts

1.         Melt unsweetened chocolate, 1/2 c chocolate chips, and the semisweet chopped chocolate with the butter in a pan placed over simmering water.

2.         Sift together flour, baking powder, salt (or mix together with a whisk).

3.         Combine eggs, sugar, espresso powder, vanilla.  Fold in the cooled chocolate mixture.

4.         Fold in flour mixture  & nuts

5.         Chill for at least 1 hour do not chill overnight (becomes too hard to handle).

6.         Preheat oven to 400 degrees

7.         On buttered & floured cookie sheet or parchment paper lined cookie sheet, place rounded tablespoons of dough.

8.         Bake 7 – 10 minutes.  Carefully remove parchment paper to cooling rack, when cool enough to handle, using a spatula, remove from paper and allow to cool completely before packing in airtight plastic bags for freezing.  Or serve NOW!!  These cookies a great cold – do not store in the refrigerator – they will dry out.