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Aren't birthdays the best? Almost as fun can be when your friends have birthdays. This past weekend Becky turned 23. Deciding to step out of my comfort zone, I volunteered to contribute something sweet to the edible aspect of her party. Due to time constraints I planned to stick with the unfailing crowd pleaser - chocolate chip cookies. My trusty sidekick even consented to the use of her mini peanut butter cups in the cookies. After stopping at safeway for brown sugar and bubble gum, it seemed like everything was going to work out swimmingly. Until Dani started thinking.

"Let's make something chocolatey," she said. Personally, I see nothing un-chocolatey about chocolate chip cookies, but Dani's mind was made up. Whatever we were going to make had to have a significant chocolate to anything else ratio. We consulted two baking books before concluding that we would just have to make something up ourselves.

And so were born Chocolate Becky Cookies a la Dani.

Chocolate Beckies

* 2 1/4 cups flour
* 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
* 1/2-3/4 tsp salt
* 1/2 cup cocoa powder (unsweetened)
* 1 cup (2 sticks) butter (salted is good. I used one salted on unsalted)
* 3/4 cups brown sugar
* 3/4 cups white sugar
* 2 huevos
* 2 tsp vanilla extract
* hella teeny pb cups, some chopped, some not (at least 1 cup)














Preheat oven to 350˚.

Have your subordinate cream the butter and sugar together (again, wooden spoon is way more badass). Add the eggs and vanilla and combine well.

We had some troubles with the dry ingredient additions. Although I usually oppose mixing them separately before together, in this case it might have been a good idea to mix the cocoa powder with the flour, bs and salt. We did not do this, and I ended up with a serious case of cocoa lung. Also, it is best to pour in the dry ingredients in 3 or so additions. Lastly, add the pb cups. If you have chocolate chips, put these in too.














The dough is sticky, so using a teaspoon to get it onto the baking sheet was helpful. Bake for about 10 minutes (I actually have no idea how long they baked for, but I believe in your ability to assess when cookies are done baking). Let them sit on the baking sheet for 5-10 minutes before removing or they will be extremely mushy (which is awesome unless you are trying to transport them somewhere).

Yum.