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Something exciting happened to me this week - I was gifted a used KitchenAid mixer by the company I work for, D'amico and Partners. My boss gave it to me and it was one of the neatest gifts ever, as I have wanted a stand mixer for years now and just have never had it in my budget to afford one. It is a KitchenAid 5-quart Commercial Stand Mixer and is awesome!

I thought it fitting to christen my new mixer with my all-time favorite cookie recipe. I have been known to actually just eat the whole batch in it's dough form before I get around to baking the cookies themselves, but this time I managed to bake them up and they were great. I was so surprised at the size of the 5-quart bowl, after only having experience with the standard size mixer. My batch of cookie dough only took up a quarter of the bowl! All in all, I am very pleased, and can't wait for the opportunity to do some more baking with it.

Triple Chocolate Cookies

1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup oil
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
1/5 cup cocoa powder
1/2 tsp kosher salt
2/3 cup chopped dark chocolate
2/3 cup chopped milk chocolate
2/3 cup chopped pecans




Preheat oven to 350. Cream together the butter and sugars until a bit fluffy and pale. Add the oil and eggs and beat until well combined. Mix in vanilla. In a seperate medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix well. Stir in the chopped nuts and chocolate by hand.

Drop by heaping tablespoons full onto ungreased cookie sheet (I use a Silpat) and bake for 10 to 12 minutes.

Dig in!