Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies

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This is a recipe from the fabulous book Short & Sweet by Dan Lepard.

Butter and sugar are beaten together with some vanilla extract until the mixture is light and fluffy.  Egg is beaten in then sifted flour, cocoa and raising agents are added and mixed to bring together to a soft dough.  Finally chocolate is chopped up and the pieces mixed in.  Small balls of the dough a spaced well apart on baking sheets and they are baked until slightly puffed up and darker at the edges.

They are lovely as they are or, for a treat, they are great sandwiched together with mint choc chip ice cream!

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