Triple Chocolate Almond Cookies

For some reason, my catering business has gotten an unusually large number of requests for tiny food lately.  Mini cupcakes, tiny quiches, small finger sandwiches and dainty little tartlets.  While everyone else seems to be craving delicate little treats, I'm over here dreaming about an enormous chocolate cookie. 🍪 The kind of cookie that takes two hands to properly hold.  A cookie with at least a million calories.  One that's way too large to dunk in a glass of milk. 🥛​I'm talking about a REALLY GIANT cookie - the size of a pizza.   A cookie that's plenty big enough for 2 people to share.  Or not???

Until I made these cookies recently, I had forgotten just how satisfying a giant cookie can be.  It reminded me how much I've missed ridiculously large cookies in my life.  I used to make giant cookies for my kids when they were little.  Their little faces would absolutely light up when they were offered a cookie that was the size of their head.  Who wouldn't love a head-sized cookie?  

Triple Chocolate Almond Cookies
8 ounces milk chocolate, chopped
1 cup flour
3/4 cup brown sugar
3 Tablespoons cocoa powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
3 eggs
2/3 cup roasted almond butter
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
6 ounces semisweet chocolate
3/4 cup sliced almonds
1 egg white, beaten

Melt milk chocolate in microwave. 

Whisk together flour, cocoa, sugar and salt.

Stir eggs into dry ingredients with a rubber scraper.  

Stir in melted chocolate, almond butter, vanilla and semisweet chocolate. 

Shape dough into 2 large cookies.

Press the sliced almonds onto one side.  

Brush top of cookie with egg whites.

Bake 10-13 minutes at 350.  

Slice.

Hold this larger than life cookie in your hands and take a bite or slice it up like a pizza.  Either way - your chocolate cravings will be satisfied.  I love tiny food as much as the next girl and I think there are occasions where small, delicate bites are more appropriate.  BUT, a single miniature Chocolate cupcake doesn't always satisfy my need for sugar and chocolate.  💁🏻‍♀️
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Ciao!

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