Story Behind my Dark Chocolate Raspberry Cookies

We are big fans of cookies in our house and these giant dark chocolate raspberry cookies are no exception. It’s quite strange because I actually used to hate baking cookies. It always seemed to take forever to scoop and bake all the dough. However, I have learned to love the process (and eating the dough).

One of my favorite recipes on my website is for my White Chocolate Raspberry Cookies. I was inspired by Goodly Cookie in Salt Lake City, Utah to create that cookie. They are good, like really good. Those cookies have freeze dried raspberries and lots and lots of Ghiradelli white chocolate chips. I’m a fan and many of you are too!

However, over here in Portugal, freeze-dried raspberries are hard to find and white chocolate chips are near impossible. I’m super picky about the type of white chocolate I use, so I decided I needed to just create a dark chocolate raspberry cookie. Instead of using freeze-dried raspberries, I knew I wanted to use fresh raspberries. Then when it came to the chocolate, I wanted these to be chocked full of dark chocolate, but not chips. I wanted the chocolate to be ooey, gooey, and oh so melty.

Not only do these cookies smell insane, they taste insane too. Chocolate and raspberries just work so well together and this cookie proves that fact. I love that these cookies come together quickly, and you don’t have to even refrigerate the dough. Another thing I love about this dough is that it only requires 1/2 cup of butter! It’s perfect if you are running low on butter, which happens often in our home with the amount of baking that I do.

Ingredients Needed for Dark Chocolate Raspberry Cookies

Butter – I prefer to use salted butter in all of my recipes

Brown Sugar

White Granulated Sugar

Eggs

Fresh Raspberries

Dark Chocolate – I used dark chocolate buttons because I wanted the chocolate to be melty. You can use chunks, chips, or a chopped up chocolate bar.

Cake Flour – If you don’t have any on hand, you can easily make it with a mixture of all-purpose flour and cornstarch.

All-purpose flour

Vanilla

Salt

Baking Powder

Baking Soda