Brittle Little Chocolate Chip Cookie Bones

Based on this recipe

So my friend had a Liberace/apartment-warming/dessert potluck party. I made chocolate chip cookie brittle! Warning: it is veryy rich so you are going to be satisfied with a very small piece. I had lots left over, brought some to work the next morning.

You will need:
3/4 c room temp unsalted butter
1c sugar
1/2 tsp salt (but remember, less is less)
1/2 tsp vanilla
2 c flour
1 c semi-sweet chocolate chips, plus some more for drizzling


Preheat the oven to 350, and line your cookie sheet with parchment paper.

Beat together the butter and sugar, then add salt and vanilla. Finally (slowly) add the flour. This dough will look very crumbly. Check it out:


Now, add in chocolate chips. Much better!


Press this dough very firmly onto your cookie sheet, trying to make it level and pretty thin. I've seen some recipes involve another sheet of parchment paper, placing it on top of the goods and using a rolling pin to flatten. Try it?


Bake for approximately 20 minutes. My edges got a bit golden when it was just right. Cut the tip off of a corner of a plastic bag, and fill it with some chocolate you've just melted in a double boiler. Squeeze and drizzle all over the bark. Let it cool so that the brittle is firm enough to break apart, and so the chocolate drizzle is not all over the place. Then hurl it to the ground, causing it to break into a million little pieces. Does this remind any of you of the Russian snow queen story? With the shard of mirror that landed in the little boy's? I think I'd rather have a piece of this brittle lodged in my heart.


Enjoy =)
-Anna