Chinese Five Spice Powder

Get spicy! Chinese Five Spice powder is the one thing to bring ALL the flavor to your favorite meals and desserts. Juliette explains the components of five spice powder and how they update the flavor of chocolate brownie cookies. Learn how to get a deliciously chewy, brownie-like texture to your cookies through butter choice, properly creaming butter and sugar, and utilizing the fluff and scoop technique to measure dry ingredients.

Chocolate Five Spice Brownie Cookies

Assembly

2 1/4 cups AP flour

2/3 cup baking cocoa

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp Chinese five spice powder

1 cup (2 sticks) salted butter, softened

3/4 cup granulated sugar

2/3 cup brown sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 large eggs, room temperature

1 12-ounce package milk chocolate chips

Action

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Whisk flour, cocoa, baking soda, and Chinese five spice powder in a small bowl.
3. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract in a large mixer bowl until creamy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in chips.
4. Drop batter by well rounded tablespoon onto uncreased baking sheet.
5. Bake for 9-11 minutes, until centers are just set. Remove from oven and let stand for 2 minutes before removing to wire racks for cooling. Yields about 2 dozen cookies.