Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Cashew Cookies With Raisins Recipes

CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE CASHEW COOKIES (WITH RAISINS)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Beat butter, sugars, cocoa,baking soda, and salt in a large bowl on medium speed for 3 minutes or until fluffy.
• Beat in eggs and vanilla until well blended. Gradually add in flour while mixing on low speed. Mix until well-blended.
• Stir in the chocolate chips, nuts, and raisins.
• Form balls of dough measuring 1 1/2 - 2 inches in diameter, and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten the balls slightly with the palm of your hand.
• Bake for 12-14 minutes (don't overbake or they might be dry).
• Cool on cookie sheets for about 2 minutes before moving them to wire racks to finish cooling.

CHOCOLATE COOKIES WITH CHOCOLATE COVERED RAISINS

Steps:

• Whisk the flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda, together in a medium bowl.
• Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat or in the microwave oven. Remove pan from the heat, and add the bittersweet chocolate, set aside until melted.
• Whisk the eggs, yolk, brown sugar, and vanilla together in a medium bowl then slowly whisk in melted chocolate mixture.
• Stir in the flour mixture to make a loose dough. Don't over work the dough. Fold in the chocolate covered raisins. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, about 2 hours.
• Alternate Method for Food Processor owners:.
• Melt butter in micro.
• Finely chop chocolate in food processor with metal blade.
• Pour in warm melted butter and process till smooth.
• Add vanilla, brown sugar, pulse to blend. Add slightly beaten eggs and yolk pulse to blend.
• Whisk together flour, baking soda baking powder and salt add to chocolate mixture and pulse to blend.
• Remove dough and and fold in chocolate covered raisins.
• Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, about 2 hours.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Form dough into balls, about 2 inches or 1 1/2 ounces each, and put on the prepared baking sheets, leaving a couple inches between the cookies. Bake about 13 to 15 minutes. Cool on a rack.

CHOCOLATE CASHEW CLUSTERS

Steps:

• In a large heavy saucepan over low heat, cook and stir the chocolates until melted. Remove from heat; stir in cashews and toffee bits. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto waxed paper. Refrigerate 10-15 minutes or until set. Store in an airtight container.

RAISIN CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Place raisins in a bowl. Cover with boiling water; let stand for 5 minutes. Drain well and set aside. , In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in mayonnaise and vanilla. Combine the flour, salt and baking soda; gradually add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in the chocolate chips, walnuts and raisins. , Drop by level tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 375° for 9-11 minutes or until golden brown. Remove to wire racks to cool.

CHOCOLATE-COVERED RAISIN COOKIES

Steps:

• In a bowl, cream butter and sugars. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in cereal, raisins and coconut. Drop by tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool for 5 minutes before removing to wire racks.

RUM-RAISIN AND CASHEW DROP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt. In a medium bowl, using a mixer, beat butter and sugars until pale and fluffy, 4 minutes. Add vanilla and eggs and beat until combined. Add flour mixture and beat until just combined. Mix in rum-soaked raisins and cashews.
• Drop dough in 2-tablespoon-size balls on parchment-lined baking sheets about 2 inches apart. Bake until cookies are golden around the edges but still soft in the center, 12 to 14 minutes. Let cool on sheets 1 to 2 minutes, then transfer to wire racks and let cool completely.

CHOCOLATE RAISIN COOKIES

Steps:

• Take a stick of butter out of the refrigerator, open the wrapping and leave the butter on the kitchen counter until it gets pretty soft - allow at least 30 minutes.
• When the butter is soft, wash your hands and put on an apron.
• Put the butter in the bowl, and beat it with the wooden spoon until it gets creamy. Beat in the sugar until it is thoroughly mixed.
• Crack open both eggs, and put them into the bowl that has the butter and sugar in it. Be careful not to get any bits of eggshell in the bowl. Beat the eggs with the butter and sugar until they are all mixed in.
• Take the sifter, and put these ingredients into it: the flour, the cocoa, the baking powder and the salt.
• Sift them into the bowl with the butter, sugar and eggs. Slowly mix everything together with the wooden spoon until it becomes brown and gooey. Then mix in the raisins.
• Have an adult turn on the oven for you and set it to 350 degrees.
• Wrap your cookie sheet with a piece of aluminum foil, keeping it nice and smooth. Smear the remaining 1 or 2 teaspoons butter all over the foil. Scoop up a teaspoon of the batter. Now, take the second teaspoon and use it to push the batter off onto the cookie sheet. Keep doing this until you have formed about 18 cookies, leaving about 2 inches of space space between the cookies. Don't worry that you have batter left over. You can make another batch of cookies.
• Have an adult help you put the cookie sheet into the oven. Let the cookies bake for 15 minutes - the tops will no longer look shiny. Have an adult take the cookies out of the oven and help you slide them off the cookie sheet with the spatula and put them on the wire rack. Let them cool while you make another batch of the cookies with the rest of the batter.

CASHEW WHITE CHOCOLATE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Stir together, flour and baking soda. Set aside.
• In large mixing bowl, combine margarine, white sugar, and brown sugar.
• Add eggs, one at a time - beat until incorporated. Add vanilla.
• Gradually, mix in flour mixture. Stir in chocolate and cashews.
• Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto parchment lined OR ungreased cookie sheets.
• Bake 6 to 8 minutes, OR until edges are just turning brown. Do not overbake.
• Cool 5 minutes before removing from cookie sheets to cool on rack.
• *Cashews - put cashews in a ziplock bag. Close. Use a rolling pin to break cashews into medium to large pieces.
• NOTE: Yield and Time to Make depends on size of cookies.

SARAH'S CHEWY CHOCOLATE-RAISIN COOKIES

Steps:

• Bring raisins and brandy to a boil in a small saucepan. Remove from heat, and let stand for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, whisk together flour, cocoa, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, the baking soda, and salt.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Beat butter and brown sugar with a mixer on medium speed until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add honey, and beat until creamy. Reduce speed to low, add flour mixture, and beat until combined. Drain raisins; discard liquid. Add raisins and chocolate to dough. Mix to combine.
• Whisk together sanding sugar and remaining 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Scoop 2 tablespoons dough. Roll in cinnamon-sugar mixture, and shape into a ball. Roll in cinnamon-sugar mixture again to coat completely. Repeat with remaining dough. Transfer to parchment-lined baking sheets, spacing about 2 inches apart, as you work. Bake until just set and starting to crack, 18 to 20 minutes. Let cool on sheets.