Chocolate Chili Cookies

I've still yet to make anything sweet in our kitchen! I'm kind of in shock, but also mostly just hot and lazy and not willing to go to the effort of finding everything I need! I know, I know. I have no excuse — the place we found on Wednesday (which I told you about!) has everything I need for some good ol' refrigerator cookies, or pudding, or something else creative! They have every variety of flour, marshmallows, various forms of chocolate, vanilla extract (!!), and much more. I think some refrigerator cookies are in our future — assuming they also have oats!

So today I'm taking you back to the land of ovens, where cookies abound and tastebuds are happy {I mean, mine are perfectly happy here, but they'd LOVE a hot baked cookie!}. I've always been a big fan of the chocolate + chili combo. They just fit together so well! I remember the first time I ever had Mexican hot chocolate — REAL Mexican hot chocolate — sometime in Kindergarden. My mind was blown. I was so into it! GIMME SOME MORE! Perhaps that single cup of hot chocolate spurred my next twenty years of Latin-American obsession, study, and travel. And obscene love of Mexican food.

We just got our tickets home for an extended visit this fall and I told my mom I'd be wanting ridiculous amounts of Mexican food upon our arrival — I'm seriously not kidding. I want chips and salsa and tostadas and tacos and burritos and enchiladas and soup and GUACAMOLE AND REFRIED BEANS AND MELTED CHEESE! That and brownies, OR BASICALLY THESE COOKIES! Two birds, one stone, amiright? Almost...

Really though. These cookies start with my favorite chocolate cookie base. I eat it with candy canes and mint chocolate chips. I eat it on a spoon. I eat it with my fingers. I eat it straight off the kitchenaid mixer. It's a miracle any cookies get made! But they DO get made, and here's proof! I basically just threw in a bunch of chili powder, tons of chocolate chips, and then sprinkled more chili powder on top. I say 1.5 teaspoon of chili powder in the recipe, but you could totally fudge that number in either direction, depending on your tastes.

Chocolate Chili Cookies

• Author: by Mary
• Prep Time: 40 mins
• Cook Time: 10 mins
• Total Time: 50 minutes
• Yield: 24 1x

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Ingredients

Units USM Scale 1x2x3x

• 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1 ½ tsp chili powder, plus more for garnish
• ¾ cup cocoa powder
• 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
• ¾ cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup chocolate chips

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Instructions

1. Combine flour, baking powder, salt, chili powder, and cocoa powder in a bowl. Whisk together, and set aside.
2. Cream the butter and sugars together until light and fluffy — at least 3-5 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, scraping down sides of the mixing bowl as needed. Add the vanilla extract.
3. Add the flour mixture, mixing slowly until just incorporated. Add the chocolate chips and stir until combined.
4. Chill the dough for 30 minutes.
5. Preheat the oven to 350 F. Using a small cookie scoop, or a spoon, form ⅛ cup balls of dough and set them 1 to 2 inches apart on a lined cookie sheet. Cook for 9-11 minutes. They will not look done, but the edges will be set.
6. Let cool for a few minutes on the cookie sheet before moving to a cooling rack.

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