April 3: Hard-Boiled Egg Chocolate Chip Cookies

Hard-Boiled Egg Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:
2 3/4 cups (12.4 oz) all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup (8 oz) cold unsalted butter
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
2 hard-boiled eggs, shells removed
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

1. Preheat the oven to 350 and place a rack in the center. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or nonstick foil.
2. Combine the flour, salt, and baking soda in a food processor and pulse to mix. Add the butter and pulse until the mixture appears coarse and crumbly. Add both sugars and the hard-boiled eggs. Pulse again until the mixture is mealy looking. Add the vanilla and pulse until the mixture just begins to come together. Transfer the mixture to a bowl and stir in the chocolate chips-you may need to use your hands to knead it all together; the dough will be thick. You will see egg whites in the dough-they'll disappear as the cookies bake.
3. Shape the dough into 16 large balls. Arrange about 4 inches apart on the baking sheets and press down so that the tops are even. Bake one sheet at a time for 15-20 minutes, or until the cookies are lightly browned around the edges. Let cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. The texture gets better as the cookies cool. It's even better if you freeze the cooled cookies and then thaw them.

Addition of the first stick of butter...pretty full already

Addition of sugars in the blender

Addition of the chopped hard-boiled eggs

Addition of vanilla...using a spoon to mix some of the batter

Addition of chocolate chips

Thoughts: Warning!! For this recipe, you need a large food processor. My food processor is not big enough. So I tried the blender. However the blender really is more for small amounts or things with liquid because the dough was too thick for it to do anything. It was so frustrating so then I scooped everything out into a large bowl and mixed it with my hands for like 10 minutes until all the pieces were very small. Because of the dough's thickness, it was hard to mix the chocolate chips with a spatula or a wooden spoon so I also just mixed it by hand. It was very easy to shape into balls though and I baked them for 15 minutes and the color is good. I thought these were very good and didn't taste like hard boiled egg at all, but some of my co-workers were very hesitant to try them based on that.