This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking with Dorie and was one I hadn’t planned on making post-holiday baking extravaganza (see the first recipe we made this month from Baking with Dorie which would have been much more reasonable to be eating the weekend of Christmas!
Dorie says:
These are the cookies that stopped me in my tracks. I was wandering along a side street in Paris’s 11th Arrondissement, saw these cookies on a counter in the back of Mokonuts, a small restaurant, and walked right in to buy a few. The baker Moko Hirayama has worked on her recipe with so much care and invention that it’s almost difficult to see any family resemblance to cookie’s inspiration: the classic American chocolate-chip cookie. Her cookies have chunks of fine chocolate (not store-bought chips), dried cranberries, rye flour and a good measure of poppy seeds, for color, crunch and surprise. Plan ahead: Once the dough is made and formed into balls, it should be refrigerated overnight before baking. Fresh from the oven, the cookies are fragile; they firm as they cool. They’ll keep for about three days at room temperature or they can be frozen for up to two months; in either case, they should be wrapped well.
The fact is, yes, these cookies need a little overnight (or more) rest in the fridge and back at the start of the month I hadn’t planned ahead enough (nope, I didn’t fully read the headnote!) so I had to leave them to now… The dough comes together easily, it’s a stiff dough though and when it comes to dividing it into equal-sized balls, the only way to go is the weigh the dough and do the math. It’s VERY hard to eyeball it (I tried!) and using a scale ensures they all bake evenly. Since they are such big cookies (think: coffee shop sized cookies), and they bake a little soft already, you definitely want to try to make sure you are evenly dividing the dough otherwise you’ll have some very underbaked.
These were seriously delicious – I used chopped chocolate but think I might use actual chunk-shaped pieces next time, some of the “slivers” got a bit lots in the other ingredients. The cranberries are a nice, tart, surprise and the flavour is lovely and nutty thanks to the rye flour and the poppy seeds (these add visual interest but not quite “crunch” – at least mine didn’t!).
These would be great to have on hand in frozen, ready-to-bake form… just saying… 2022 might require more cookies!
Get the recipe for Dorie Greenspan’s Mokonut’s Rye-Cranberry Chocolate Chunk Cookies from Baking with Dorie on p 163 of Baking with Dorie or here!
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Those are a keeper in our house. Impressive picture
Great photos! I agree, these are amazing.
I loved these! I think they are my favourite Dorie cookie. The dough is so easy to work with, no cutting out, and didn’t spread too much in the oven. The only barrier to repeating them is the rye flour (which is not a staple in my house).
For a moment, I thought a new variety of nuts had been discovered: mokonuts?
But, they do sound (from your description) seriously nice.
These do take a bit of prep work with the chilling time, but the reviews they got make them worthy of a repeat for sure. Great picture!
I used the scale too. It was very helpful. I agree it would be a great dough to freeze. Your cookies look delicious!
I should have used a scale on mine! These are our new favorite cookies. Yours look delicious! Happy new year!
i did the same thing, “oops- they need to rest overnight?” and made the puffers first instead. these look great. happy new year– bring on the cookies!
These are by far my favorite cookie. I have made them 3 times for family and friends.
Oh these look so perfect. I didn’t measure correctly on the poppy seeds so I’m hoping next time I make them with the correct amount of poppy seeds, that they will look just like yours!
Oh my goodness, I think these cookies are haunting me! I’ve seen them so often recently that I guess I’ll just have to make them!