What chocolate do you use for homemade cookies?

[Poiua]

I started baking 2 years ago. And have tried many cookie recipes. I usually enjoy the cookie flavour but find the chocolate detracts from the overall flavour. My friend had one and said to should use another chocolate. I mean light bulb moment! I’m so stupid for not even questioning the chocolate I use.

What do you use? I’ve attached the bars I usually get. I swear a lot of recipes say good quality dark choc, min 70%.

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Link above and reason is I am doing Keto at the moment so use coconut flour and sugar replacements

Cheap chocolate is best in cookies imo

Guittard chips here - either milk or their semi-sweet.

Guittard here too - the semi sweet are absolutely delicious in choc chip cookies

Just the cheap Tesco cooking chocolate (in bars, I chop it up). That chocolate is fancy chocolate for eating, not cooking.

Thank you! ☺️

Milk chocolate for chips for cookies. I also usually do my dark chocolate cooking with the 55% ish instead of 70% stuff.

Callebaut white chocolate callets, and I have been told that my cookies are perfect

Please can I have your recipe?

Callebaut chocolate chips. I buy them in 1kg bags. It's the best quality chocolate I have found for baking and used by choclatiers too.

Poiua they look epic cookies, huge! Thanks.

Like many others I use the cheapest dark chocolate (its 50% cocoa) from whatever supermarket. I haven't bought any for a while and usually keep a stock in from Aldi where it's about 30 p a bar (probably more now). Chopping it up for cookies is a bit of a pain but it's worth it for the saving vs chocolate chips.

I also get loads of complements and one of my colleagues who likes to think she's a cut above the rest of us once said how nice some brownies I made were and she said I must have used really good ingredients. I took great pleasure in telling her that it was all from Aldi including the aforementioned 30 p chocolate.

Have they stopping selling cooking chocolate? My mum always bought cooking chocolate chips for cookies and muffins

*goes off to look

EDIT - has great reviews, but there is still cooking chocolate for sale too
www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/278274664

I also use the cheapest dark chocolate - usually Sainsbury's or Aldi standard
bars.

Tesco’s own. Tastes good so long as you do t need 70%

Please can you share your brownie recipe. I’ve only made them once since I got into baking as they tasted like a cheap supermarket version.

Used the same choc as I use in cookies 70% either Lindt or Green and Blacks.

Thanks in advance.

I don't think you can go wrong with the Kirkland ones from Costco.

As much of a mix as possible. I make big batches and freeze leftover dough to make later. I usually add:

Lidl/Aldi own brand M&Ms - peanut, crispy and chocolate
Chopped up dark, milk and white chocolate bats
Chopped up pretzel pieces
Reeces pieces
Chocolate buttons
Anything else I see.

Following as I used to buy Callebaut but it's now double in price since I last bought and is £18//kg now!

Another vote for the Costco brand chocolate chips!

I get cooking chocolate or chocolate chips.

Cooking chocolate isn’t proper chocolate, it’s chocolate flavoured coating for things like truffles and cake pops.

I use an Ottolenghi recipe for Pecan Chocolate cookies but I have greatest result using M & S chocolate chunks.

The chunks are much bigger and don’t disappear into the baking as the chips do.

https://www.marksandspencer.com/food/dark-chocolate-chunks/p/fdp60469368