Chocolate Chubbies  
  
 8 oz semisweet chocolate (8 Squares)  
 3 oz unsweetened chocolate (3 Squares)  
 1/2 cup unsalted butter  
 3 lg eggs (at room temperature) 
 1 1/4 cups sugar  
 2 tsp vanilla extract  
 2/3 cup unbleached all purpose flour  
 1/2 tsp baking powder  
 1/4 tsp salt  
 1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips  
 1 1/2 cups toasted walnuts chopped  
 1 1/2 cups toasted pecans chopped  
   
  Yield: 25 Large Cookies  
   
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. and grease 3 cookie sheets.  
   
Melt the chocolate with the butter in a double boiler over simmering water. 
Cool to room temperature.  
   
Beat the eggs with the sugar in a mixer bowl until a ribbon forms when the beaters are 
lifted, about 10 minutes.  
 
Beat in the chocolate mixture and vanilla.  
 
Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl and stir into the chocolate 
mixture just until combined (do not overmix!!!) Stir in the chocolate chips and nuts. 
Drop batter by quarter cupfuls 2 inches apart onto the prepared cookies sheets (do not 
Flatten). 
 
Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until barely firm and tops are just dry and slightly cracked.  
 
Cool on the cookie sheets for 2 minutes and then gently transfer to wire racks to cool 
completely.