Soft and slightly chewy double chocolate cookies with an amazing rum flavor, chocolate chips, and flaky sea salt on top are a must to bake for your holiday cookies. You will not be able to stop eating these.
100grsemi-sweet chocolate chipsplus more for topping after baking
Garnish:
Flaky sea salt
Instructions
Melt the chocolate:
Melt the chocolate with butter over a bain-marie. Make sure the water is just simmering and not touching the bottom of the bowl you put the chocolate in. Set it aside to let it cool down as you prepare other things
Prepare the cookie dough:
Preheat oven to 350 F (180 C). Position the rack 3rd from the top and another one 3rd from the bottom
Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and set them aside
Mix all the dry ingredients and whisk to combine
Put sugar, light brown sugar, and room temperature eggs in a mixing bowl. Beat with a mixer over high speed for about 3 minutes until light and fluffy. Lower the speed to low add rum, rum extract, and gradually add the warm chocolate mixture (make sure it's not hot) and continue to mix. Then increase the speed to medium and beat another minute
Lower the speed to the lowest and gradually add the dry ingredients so the flour mixture won't fly around. Beat for about 30 seconds. The mixture won't be fully combined yet. Switch to a sturdy rubber spatula and fold to mix. Add the chocolate chips and fold to combine. Cover and chill in the freezer for 10 minutes.
Bake the cookies:
I use a one-tablespoon size cookie dough scoop to scoop the dough. Put them about 1 1/2 to 2 inches apart on the baking sheets. Sprinkle with some sea salt flakes on top
Put the baking sheets on the racks you have positioned earlier and bake for 9-10 minutes. Rotate them front to back, top to bottom halfway through baking so they bake evenly
They will still be very soft when they first come out from the oven. Top with a few more chocolate chips/chunks on top of the cookies. Just lightly press them in a little bit. Let them sit on the baking sheets for 10 minutes before transferring to the cooling rack to let them cool completely
They are soft and slightly chewy with melty chocolate chips. oh my! The flavor of the rum is even better the next day
Storage:
Store them in an air-tight container once they have cooled down completely for up to one week
If you chill the cookies in the fridge, the texture is even fudgier and chewier in a pleasant way, almost like brownies :)
The baked cookies freeze well too. Simply put them in a freezer bag, push all the air out and seal. They can be kept frozen this way for up to one month