Chocolate Chubbies

Chocolate Chubbies

8 squares (8 oz) semisweet chocolate
3 squares (3 oz) unsweetened chocolate
1/2 cup unsalted butter
3 large eggs, at room temperature
1 1/4 cups sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
2/3 cup all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1 1/2 cups toasted walnuts, chopped
1 1/2 cups toasted pecans, chopped

Preheat oven to 325 F. Grease three cookie sheets. Melt chocolate with butter in double boiler over simmering water. Cool to room temperature. Beat eggs with sugar in mixer bowl until ribbon forms when beaters are lifted. Beat in chocolate mixture and vanilla. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in medium bowl and stir into chocolate mixture just until combined. Do Not Overmix. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts. Drop batter by quarter-cupfuls 2 inches apart onto prepared cookie sheets. Do Not Flatten. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until barely firm and tops are just dry and slightly cracked. Cool on cookie sheets 2 minutes. Gently transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

Yield: 25 cookies