Some Crust Bakery’s Mocha Cookies
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That's an awfully large cookie for such a small cow!
Apparently Some Crust Bakery in Claremont, CA has some famous mocha cookies. How I never discovered this during my 4 years there is a mystery. I guess my college bubble didn’t extend past about 6th street. Anyways, at the Alumi Weekend about 1 1/2 weeks ago, my friend Trish took me there and we ate their delicious mocha cookies. Yum!
Anyways, they’ve made the recipe available to the public so here it goes (here’s a link):
- 4 1/2 oz unsweeted chocolate (100%)
- 9 oz bittersweet chocolate (70%)
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
- 4 eggs
- 3 Tbsp. instant espresso
- 1 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup pastry flour
- 1/4 tsp. baking powder
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 8 oz bittersweet (70%) chocolate chunks
The main ingredients
Basically, you melt the chocolate and butter in a saucepan. Meanwhile, mix the eggs, espresso, and sugar in an electric mixer. Add the melted chocolate and mix more. Add the flour (plus baking powder and salt), mix a little more. Finally, fold in the chocolate chunks. Bake 15 minutes at 350 degrees.
It was a tough job but someone had to do it.
We couldn’t find pastry flour so we used regular flour. And we couldn’t find instant espresso so we used regular espresso. If you find a little piece of crunchy stuff, that’s probably espresso. Kind of like eating those chocolate covered coffee beans. Finally, I think our oven runs a little hot so the first batch came out a bit overdone. For the second batch I turned it down to 300 and only left them in for 14 minutes. Hopefully the second batch came out better, I just couldn’t bring myself to try one after I had already eaten one from the first batch plus I licked all the batter from the beaters. They’re VERY rich.
Can’t go wrong with chocolate and butta…a stick of butta!
I never trust ovens to keep accurate temperature. Try buying a cheap oven thermometer at the grocery store. Mocha cookies look yummy but might keep me awake!
My Grandmother worked for Dorthy, the original owner, of some rust. She worked there about 15 years. Every Christmas we were sent a box of cookies from the bakery. Snickerdoodles, Mocha chocolate chips, chocolate chips, peanutbutter, etc. They freeze realy well. When I was about 3 or 4 I “worked” at the bakery a few times helping shape bear claws or add to the mix. Dorthy would pay me $1 for my days wage.
I used to get my birthday cakes from there. A white cake with a marzipan elephant. Because of that bakery my grandma was titled the cookie grandma. When I read Joanne Fluke books, this is the bakery I envision in the books. The Mocha cookies have always been my favorite.