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Red Truck Bakery’s
Buttermilk Chocolate Chewies
Makes about 36 cookies
These soft, fudgy cookies hide plenty of big chocolate chunks beneath their beautifully cracked tops. The buttermilk adds a delicate kick and a little lift, so they puff up nicely. They’re very popular with our weekend crowd: one guy bought a few to eat on the road, but didn’t try them until he had driven 15 minutes out of town. We saw him again half an hour later as he circled back to get more; he liked them so much that he bought every one we had in the case.
Don’t forget to turn the baking sheet halfway through baking, or else the cookies will turn out hard and fail to live up to their chewy name.
2 1⁄4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour, sifted
1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
1⁄2 teaspoon kosher salt
1⁄2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted
3⁄4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 cups sugar
3⁄4 cup buttermilk
1 1⁄2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
2. In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt.
3. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together the melted butter, cocoa powder, and sugar on medium speed until well combined, about 2 minutes. Gradually add the buttermilk and vanilla. Add the flour mixture and beat until incorporated. Add the chocolate chips and mix until just combined. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and chill the dough for at least 30 minutes and up to 3 hours.
4. Portion out 2 rounded tablespoons of dough and, using your hands, form them into balls. Place the dough balls on two ungreased baking sheets about 1 1⁄2 inches apart and slightly flatten them with your palm—they will continue to spread while baking.
5. Bake for 8 minutes, turning the baking sheets halfway through, until the tops are puffy and slightly cracked. Transfer the cookies to a raised wire rack to cool. Store in an airtight jar or plastic bag for up to 3 days, or freeze in a plastic bag for up to 3 months.
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The
Red Truck Bakery Cookbook
is available online through many local independent bookstores, including
Politics & Prose
in Washington, DC;
One More Page Books
in Arlington, VA; signed copies at
George Washington’s Mount Vernon
;
Old Town Books
in Alexandria, VA;
Old Town Open Book
in Warrenton, VA;
McIntyre’s Books
in Fearrington Village, NC; signed copies at
The Alabama Booksmith
in Birmingham, AL;
Square Books
in Oxford, MS;
Lemuria Books
in Jackson, MS; and
Parnassus Books
in Nashville, TN. They’ll welcome your business and you will be supporting a homegrown business needing your help. The Red Truck Bakery will reopen as soon as the pandemic moves through and it is safe to do so.
From the Red Truck Bakery Cookbook. Copyright © 2018 by Brian Noyes. Photographs copyright © 2018 by Andrew Thomas Lee. All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. crownpublishing.com clarksonpotter.com
