Morning all ! I’m back from my soujourn in Devon, but thought I’d relax a little while longer, besides there are meetings to go to, that W word to catch up on, so as I’m feeling all bluesy on my return from hols I need some comfort food. Not just any old comfort food. I’m talking about the C word or rather the CCU words. Choc Chip Uru to be precise!
Now if you’ve never met Choc Chip before you are in for a treat my friends, a literal treat. She’s a star, an Ausie star who creates the most amazing desserts, cookies, ice creams you name it – and all for our pleasure! Well that might be pushing it a bt too far, she is feeding her own obsession as well as ours 
I’m going to pick out a couple of gemsfrom today’s post to get us going “overindulgences,” “chocolate overload stuffed cookies“, “very-brownie cookies“ and “mega fat batch of mega fat jumbo cookies“. See I said we are in for a treat, and this is just a wee taster of her skills and chocolate obsessiveness. To really get the flavour of her genius you need to pop over to Go Bake Yourself
I remember coming across Choc Chip, and visiting her blog and after checking out her recipes I left a comment along the lines of “WOW, I don’t know where to start they all look so amazing“, her speedy oh so accurate and droll response – “ Start from the beginning” !! Just love her
Let’s welcome Choc Chip to the Promenade!
Hello to all readers today, for those who have not met me, the name’s Uru… Choc Chip Uru ;) Ok so maybe it does not have the same ring as James Bond but like he has a passion for blowing up stuff and saving the world in his hunky way, I have a passion for baking in my… adolescent way 
Again, not the same thing but pfft… don’t judge 
I am a (now) 17 year old sweet obsessed, baking crazed blogger who runs Go Bake Yourself, a blog I believe encompasses my addiction to sugar, creativity and budding love for photography all in one
A big thanks to you Claire, I hope your readers and especially you go crazy for the recipe I have planned to share with you today. I love your blog and can’t wait to see your reaction to the overload I am about to give to you 
Enjoy mes cheris!
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Ok, so you know how I mentioned my love for baking, sweet stuff and all that jazz? Well I didn’t want to freak you out right at the beginning so I did not mention my love for… chocolate…. because it. is. an. obsession.
Like a stalker obsession.
Like a Cheers reruns addiction.
Like lungs, necessary for breathing.
If I could, I would sing this song to honour chocolate but I have a really bad case of stage fright… damn
Anyway… moving along before truly you decide to turn off your screens, I know you all are probably expecting a story along with this post, something which adds meaning and flavour to the extraordinary chocolate recipe to come.
I’m sorry there really isn’t.
Why were these chocolate overload stuffed cookies made? Well, you see, I had finished half of my exams, no 2/3 of my yearly exams in September and had a four day break coming up… so after mon examen de francais quel etait tres degoutant, I came home on a little high and a little craving.
Thus this mega fat batch of mega fat jumbo cookies were born. They are so fudgy, you could almost call them very-brownie cookies, the white chocolate chunks gracing the tastebuds at random intervals add a nice sweet contrast to the richness of the dark chocolate. Gooood stuff
Enjoy all! (and make them asap, you will not regret it!)
*Any suggestions or slight changes are bolded – this cookbook is absolutely incredible and highly recommended!
Jumbo Chocolate Fudge Cookies
Source: Mastering The Art Of Baking [Cookbook]
Makes: 18 jumbo cookies
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups plain flour
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 cups light brown sugar, lightly - firmly - packed
- 180g butter, chopped, room temperature if possible
- 300g dark chocolate - use 100g milk chocolate, 200g dark chocolate to lessen the intense richness
- 3 eggs, room temperature, lightly whisked w/ one tsp of vanilla essence
- 75g white chocolate chunks
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C and line 2 large baking trays with baking paper
- Sift the flour and cocoa into a large bowl. Sift in the sugar and make a well in the centre
- Put the butter and half the amount of dark chocolate into a small heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water (a double boiler) – make sure the base of the bowl does not touch the water)
- Stir over low heat until the mixture is melted and smooth. Remove from heat and set aside for 10 minutes or until lukewarm
- Add the chocolate mixture and eggs to the dry ingredients and use a wooden spoon to stir until evenly combined
- Stir in the white and remaining dark chocolate chunks
- Roll 2 tbs of mixture into a ball and place on a lined tray. Repeat with the remaining mixture, leaving 7cm between each ball to allow for spreading (it is very little). Flatten the ball slightly with your fingertips (I pushed down moderately well and shaped the cookie with a smooth top because mine barely spread)
- Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes, swapping the trays around halfway through cooking (not necessary in a fan forced oven) . Leave the biscuits on the trays for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool (VERY delicate cookies)
Tips:
- To make smaller biscuits, use 1 tbs of mixture per ball and bake for 12 minutes as before
- Keep in an airtight container for up to 1 week
- Refrigerate the mixture if too soft initially to roll into balls to firm it up a little – note that this will lessen the spread even more
And there you have it my friends, a very addictive, chocolate jumbo concoction cookie
Thanks again Claire for letting me blog here today, it was totally awesome! If anyone wants to come see more chocolate overindulgences, feel free to visit anytime at Go Bake Yourself!
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I love Uru! She’s so sweet! These cookies look sooooo gooood!
Definitely sweet
You are the sweetest my friend, thank you so much for having me on your blog! You have such awesome style and the fact that I could partake in that was an honour
Hope you enjoyed this chocolate overdose!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
These should be the size of a large pizza.
Great idea Carl !
I adore chocolate chip cookies and these are no exception! Yummy.
Oh yum Uru! Fantastic looking cookies, as always!
Thanks for popping in and I can’t wait to make these myself !
It’s a pleasure to meet you Claire and thanks for having Uru over here. These gigantic treats could easily become an addiction Choc Chip. You pulled out the big guns for this one girl!
The pleasure has been mine to have Choc Chip on the promenade, I think she’s a star !! Lovely to meet you
Uru, you’re a star … even if I don’t like cookie – you could easily convert me. Open a cafe and I will do the washing up *smile
Even if they are jumbo, I’d need at least two, they look sooooo good! Nice guest post.
Only two … you are moderation itself !!
WOW! Suddenly, my breakfast of oatmeal seems less appetizing.
Ha, I know exactly what you mean, I was reading cocktail recipes at 11am today and suddenly my cup of tea looked positively pedestrain.
Just reading through the blog make me curl up with delight
These are fantastic! Thanks for showing in such detail how to do them. They worked out perfectly! And Claire, welcome home!
Thanks for the welcome back
Looks like a great cookie(biscuit)…My sisters and wife I am sure will give this recipe a try. I smile when I read the recipe above….the mix of measurement types – cups for the volume measure and grams for the weight measures….and butter is it weight or volume… most US recipes list butter in tbs or cups.
Now that is just plain odd to me as I always get confused by measuring butte rin a cup, I can’t visulaise it, so I have a cheat sheet at the ready so I can weight amounts
Mind you having said that a cup is better than mentioning a stick of butter – now that really is confusing to me !!
Hope everyone enjoyed the recipe
Wow! Now that is what I call a chocolate cookie – dark, milk and white chocolate AND cocoa! Yum!
Uru has all bases covered Cathy !!
These are definitely jumbolicious! What a great cookie – I need one now! Great guest post – thanks so much.
Loving the word Jumbalicious, think I might have to adopt that one !
These sound wonderful! I think I may add walnuts…
Taking them to another level Cindy
They look delicious!
Don’t they just Stacy!
Great looking cookies – chocolate and more chocolate, the perfect combination!
he, he this recipe definitely appeals to the chocoholics
It sounds like an amazing cookie particularly with all those wonderful high end ingredients. I’m here from CCU’s site and like what I see. Of to explore now.
Hi Eva, isn’t CCU the best?!
She is very sweet and I love that most of her recipes are confections!
CCU, these must be heavenly!
Mandy
I bet they are Mandy, I plan to make some and make some SOON
YUM – I love a dark chocolate cookie:) Have a SWEET Day!
Loving it! Have a SWEET day yourself !!
Only you can give a regular chocolate chip cookie a superstar status Uru! Unbelievable, lol!
Nice to meet you Claire!
Lovely to meet you !
I think CCU is a superstar, so it stands that her cookies would be superstars too
Ooh, I MUST make these for my son who is a freshman in college…he LOVES chocolate treats! Thanks, Claire and Uru!
Hi there, it’s been a heap of fun hosting CCU here, I’ve not only got the most gorgeous recipe to try but I get to visit some new blogs too
Hope your son loved the cookies !
I hope you had a great time in Devon. The title of this post is mouth-watering and the jumbo cookies look lovely.
I had a fab time thanks – still trying to sort the photos out…… pleased you liked the recipe too !
Uru is the coolest chick around! And a phenomenal baker! I’m saving this and making them soon…omg I can’t wait!
Wonderful site and guest post. Brava to you both.
xoxo
Tammy<3
Thank you Tammy, and it’s lovely to meet you! I’m going to HAVE to make these and SOON
CCU is a star !
Hi, URU!! It’s awesome to see a photo of you!! Love your baking.. I always do!! It makes me happy seeing so much chocolate:)
Isn’t it great we got to see Uru
I know!! Enough of the digital.. more real portraits:) She’s so pretty!!
Just over from Go Bake Yourself. So nice to see a photo of you URU. You are the queen of chocolate. Hope you had a great trip to Devon Claire. I’m off to explore your blog a little more today….
Thank you, and yes I had a fab holiday – perfectly relaxing, what I need now I’m back is a plate of these cookies
Jumped over from Uru’s site. Nice to meet you! Uru, you had a great guest post. Is it jumbo enough for all of us to share?
Looks yum!!
Hi there and thanks for popping in ! I’m imagining a jumbo sized plate of jumbo cookies, enough to share
Uru, you cutie, you could bake for me anytime. I’m so glad you introduced us to Claire. I’ve visited before but never formally introduced like this.
Isn’t it great to meet up with new people
And yes Uru could bake for me anytime !!
Yes, Choc Chip Uru has a fantastic blog!!!
and those biscuits looks simply sublime!! – going to give them a try this weekend – woo!
Wooo !!! I can’t wait to try making them too
Hi Uru – good to meet you and your gorgeous cookies! And Claire – don´t work tooooo hard
Claire, thanks so much for hosting CCU, one sweet and enduring little food writer! Take care, BAM
Isn’t she th ebest BAM ?!
What a great looking cookie! Another great gust spot, Claire. Well done, CCU!
It was a pleasure and so easy to host CCU on the promenade John, especially when she comes up with such a great treat for us all !
Oh my goodness! These could be dangerous!
Claire, you’ve given me so many new treats I almost wonder if I dare, but I do live by the credo there’s always room for chocolate! 
Yum, CCU!
Always room for more choclate sounds like a great motto Debra
Love you, Uru!! These look amazing as per usual and found it real interesting that you used Lindt chocolate. Lindt is my favorite of all and, yep, I indulge in the sugar-filled variety once in a while.
Hi there, and lovely to meet you.! we had a great bar of Lindt the other week – dark chocolate with caramel bits and a touch of sea salt. Totally amazing, oh and addictive as it soon went
Hi! I’m visiting from CCU’s blog and I must say, your intro to her guest post captured her (chocolate obsessed personality) perfectly! Uru, your jumbo cookies are a delight — the only thing that could make them better would be hearing you sing that song while I’m eating them… I mean ONE.
Great guest post!
hi Kim, lovely to meet some new faces
I think Uru’s cookies are a delight, but then so is she !
You put “jumbo” “chocolate” and “cookies” together in one recipe title and I’m sold. They look delish!
It’s a title that wins hands down isn’t it ! And thanks fo rpopping in
Chocolatey goodness
Thanks for sharing! Always great to find another great cookie recipe 
I don’t think you can ever have too many cookie recipes
Nice to find CCU here. Great, actually, to find her anywhere. She has the best, sweetest, chocolatiest treats!
And lovely to meet you Kathleen ! I just CCU’s blog, her energy and humour are a blast, and her cooking is just fabulous !!
Oh yum! Heading over from Uru’s blog. So nice to meet you, Ms Claire
and lovely to meet you too Miss kiran
Isn’t been a blast to host CCU!!