Chocolate Chip Zwieback

This cookie comes from a little cookbook called One-Pot Cookies by Andrew Schloss with Ken Bookman. They also co-authored a  book called One-Pot Chocolate Desserts. My daughter also makes The Dampest, Darkest, Deadliest Brownies of All Time and Fire-Tongue Ginger Biscuits from this One-Pot Cookie book. So far we've enjoyed all the cookies she's made from this book. She found One-Pot Cookes at a used book sale at a nearby public library several years ago. If you like to bake cookies you'll enjoy this book too. I need to look for the chocolate dessert book for her as well. Sarina here's the cookie recipe she made a few days ago you requested the reicpe for. Enjoy!

Chocolate Chip Zwieback
Makes 16 cookies

1 cup semisweet mini-chocolate chips
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
1/2 cup finely ground almonds, walnuts, or hazelnuts
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup flour

Place chips in the freezer. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 9 inch square baking pan with foil and coat with spray shortening.

In a large, heavy bottomed saucepan over medium heat, begin melting the butter. When it is half melted, remove from heat and stir until butter is completely melted. Mix in the nuts, sugar, extracts and salt until ingredients are thouroughly combined. Stir in the four until a smooth dough forms. Remove chocolate chips from freezer and mix into dough.

Place the dough in the prepared pan. Mosten your hands and shake off excess water. Gently press the dough into an even layer with your fingertips, remoistening your fingers if they start to stick to the dough.

Bake for 20 minutes and remove the pan from the oven. Cover with a cutting board and invert pan. Remove the pan and the foil. Cut in half with a serrated knife and cut each half into rectangular strips. Place the strips back into the pan, setting each on a narrow side. Return pan to the oven to bake for 25 more minutes, until golden brown and crisp.