White and Semi Sweet Chocolate Cookies

A while ago I made these type of cookies with chocolate and candy canes for the holiday season, and my friend asked me to make them again because he liked their type of "scone-like" consistency. SInce the Christmas season has long passed, I no longer have candy canes in my house so I decided to add in white chocolate chips instead and slightly different flavoring to make these cookies still interesting, but the same type of texture.

Ingredients:

½ cup semi sweet chocolate chips

½ cup white chocolate chips

½ cup softened butter

1 cup sugar


1tsp baking powder

½ teaspoon salt


2 eggs


1 teaspoon vanilla

½ teaspoon almond extract

2 ½ cups flour

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375 F and grease 2 cookie sheets.

In a large bowl or stand mixer, cream together the butter and sugar. Add in the baking powder, salt, eggs, almond extract and vanilla. Mix well and then gradually add in the flour.

plain batter

chocolate chips

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= perfect dough

Once this is all well blended, toss in both types of chocolate chips and give the dough a quick final mix.

Almond extract gives these cookies a distinct flavor.

Use a cookie scoop or regular spoon, drop balls of dough 2 inches apart onto the prepared baking sheet.

Bake for 8-10 minutes in your preheated oven. Remove from oven and let them cool for a minute before transferring them to wire racks.