Oh my God!!! That’s my first reaction after tasting these cookies. If like cookies, you’re going to love these cookies! If you’re a chocoholic, you’re really going to love these cookies! If you’re a browniedan, you’re definetely going to love these cookies! Thank you Claudia of Fool for Food, for picking this recipe!
Since I get a headache from bittersweet chocolate I only used this for the melting chocolate part. For the chunks of chocolate in these Chunkers I used milk chocolate and white chocolate. Besides all of the chocolate I also opted to use pecans and golden raisins.
I must admit: I had my worries when I saw the batter after adding all the chocolate, pecans and raisins. I couldn’t imagine that this lumpy mess would be cookies that would hold their shape. But they turned out great!!
To protect myself from eating all the Chocolate Chunkers I took them to work. My colleagues absolutely adored them: the entire tin was empty by 2 pm!! Some reactions were: OMG, this is the best cookie ever!! What are you doing to us? Where can I buy these cookies? How can I get my fix after you leave? (I got a new job and start there the 3rd of November… I think some of my colleagues are actually going to miss the baking more than they are going to miss me!! ;))
Since my crappy old camera refuses to cooperate with me right now my pictures will follow later. (Don’t get too excited, they will look horrible and very dark as it is a really crappy camera!!! :()
Check out the results of my co-bakers at TWD. If you want to start making these wonderful recipes, please consider buying Baking:From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan. So far it is the best cookbook that I have bought!!
Dad’s verdict: 9,5 out of 10.
N.B. Out of all the pictures I took only one is OK enough to be published…. But still crappy!!!
The Baking Bluefinger 
September 16, 2008 at 10:10 am
>Hi Marthe, thanks for stopping by on the Claytons blog and leaving a comment :)Weren’t these cookies amazing? I still can’t get over the amount of chocolate in them! I’m really glad I made them though. I bet your colleagues are going to really miss you when you leave!
September 16, 2008 at 11:53 am
>actually, it’s hard to take a great photo of these cookies anyway, even with a good camera! they just don’t look as good as they taste. i guess your new colleagues don’t even know what they’re in for….you + baking!
September 16, 2008 at 12:24 pm
>i can feel your excitement despite the lack of photos. These were really good weren’t they? i totally love the fact that they were so much like brownies instead of cookies.lucky colleagues!!!
September 16, 2008 at 12:27 pm
>lucky colleagues you have there.great description without the photo too. i can only imagine them to be awesome. Nothing short of a miracle
September 16, 2008 at 1:11 pm
>How wonderful of you to treat your coworkers. TWD will also be a great way to break the ice with your new coworkers this fall – have a great time in your new job!
September 16, 2008 at 1:16 pm
>These cookies sounded like something I would really enjoy, being a chocolate fanatic myself, however my husband hates chocolate so I had to pass this week. I’m glad you enjoyed them! I find chocolate anything very difficult to take a picture of by the way!
September 16, 2008 at 1:20 pm
>Hmmmm…sounds like you could make some spare cash by supplying your soon to former co-workers with some cookies! I really enjoyed these!
September 16, 2008 at 1:42 pm
>Wounds like they were a hit at work. Sorry your camera wasn’t working, but even your description of those yummy cookies is picture enough.
September 16, 2008 at 2:47 pm
>Protection from these was definitely necessary – I foisted mine off on others as well 🙂
September 16, 2008 at 3:22 pm
>I totally shared your reaction to these cookies — they were phenomenal, especially if you love chocolate! Sorry about your camera, but like other posters said, these cookies really weren’t much to look at, anyway! Glad you loved them!
September 16, 2008 at 3:27 pm
>I brought them in for my coworkers, and they said the same things! What are you doing to us??? can we have the recipe? We are seriously the most valuable employees ever.
September 16, 2008 at 3:48 pm
>I’m glad you liked them, they look wonderful and I can see you co workers will sure miss you! Great job!
September 16, 2008 at 4:02 pm
>Marthe, I’m so glad your co-workers liked the cookies! You are a generous soul – I only share these with family and close friends!Madam Chowhttp://www.mzkitchen.com
September 16, 2008 at 4:05 pm
>I agree with you that these cookies were amazing!
September 16, 2008 at 4:13 pm
>These cookies are awesome!!! Glad you liked them, too!
September 16, 2008 at 4:31 pm
>Probably my favorite cookie! I had the same reaction when I ate mine =)
September 16, 2008 at 5:31 pm
>I sooo agree with you the cookies rocked. My husband keeps asking me when I am making them again. Im going to make that plum cake first!
September 16, 2008 at 7:16 pm
>Funny, I also took these to work in an attempt to protect myslef!!! 🙂
September 16, 2008 at 8:23 pm
>OMG! That was my reaction too. I love these cookies. I also used pecans and golden raisins. :)I also wanted to say thank you for commenting on my first TWD post. I seriously thought no one was reading, in reality I didn’t set my blog to notify me when comments were posted. Oops.
September 16, 2008 at 8:58 pm
>It sounds like everyone really enjoyed these. I usually have a number of places that I can take extra baked goods so I don’t eat them all, but I’m away from home right now, so I’ve eaten way too many. =)
September 16, 2008 at 11:42 pm
>Your cookies SOUND really good. Waiting for the pics.
September 17, 2008 at 12:41 am
>Good idea to bring these to work. They are really going to miss you!
September 17, 2008 at 2:29 am
>these cookies were amazing, I agree.
September 17, 2008 at 5:42 am
>glad you loved them, so did i! 🙂 good luck getting the camera working!
September 17, 2008 at 1:40 pm
>Yeah, I sent most of them off to work with my better half, just too much chocolate for me. I never thought it possible! lol!
September 17, 2008 at 2:54 pm
>LOL @ collegues missing your baked goods! Thats how I felt when I left my job. Glad everyone enjoyed this cookie recipe! Great job!Clara @ iheartfood4thought
September 17, 2008 at 7:35 pm
>Glad you liked them! So did we!
September 17, 2008 at 10:20 pm
>Glad everyone loved them!
September 17, 2008 at 11:46 pm
>Not a crappy photo – your cookies look great!These were very tasty!
September 18, 2008 at 2:17 am
>Ha, I have definitely had jobs where coworkers like my baking more than they liked me! (But it all evened out, because I usually liked the fact that I could dump my baking off on them more than I liked them.) These weren’t the most photogenic cookies anyhow, but at least they made up for it in taste!
September 18, 2008 at 1:30 pm
>Oooh, don’t you hate when the pictures don’t turn out? Too bad we don’t all have a professional photographer at our disposal.Anyway, I’m glad you liked them! I agree, the batter was unusual.
September 18, 2008 at 3:27 pm
>You picture looks fine! 🙂 It was necessary to share these wasn’t it? I know I made myself sick eating so many of them!
September 18, 2008 at 5:47 pm
>I was worried about the batter too, but they turned out wonderfully, didn’t they? I can still see how yummy yours looked.