1 ¼ cup butter
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
¾ cups cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
2 cups choco chips
1 cup chopped dried apricots (or crasins or both)
1 cup chopped macadamia nuts
In large mixer bowl, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. In separate bowl, stir together flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt; blend into butter mixture. Stir in choco chips, apricots and nuts. Roll into balls and place on cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 12-14 min.
I add half white chips, half chocolate chips. Also, I never combine the dry separately, I just add all the dry after the wet has been mixed well. You might have to adjust the flour for altitude. In Colorado (really high), the 2 cups are pretty well-packed cups. Less for lower altitudes... Finally, I like softer cookies, so I only bake them for 11 minutes.
