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Originally Posted by asianthree

Original recipe was just her homemade cocoa and chipped chocolate. My guess was not sweetened because they only used honey. Even with bitter chocolate the honey takes over. Fair warning cookies with honey never get hard. So always soft. I hate soft cookies because that’s all I had growing up with no sugar everything honey. That why I have tried to convert to sugar but they just won’t release from molds.

When the kids were small I used her sweet homemade chocolate and cocoa. As they got older we added dark semi sweet. So it became triple chocolate, then one year the boys were eating cherries i dried and wanted to add them. So triple chocolate Traverse City Cookies was invented.
Today they used freshly dried cranberries, so no chopping. Oldest has taken the recipe higher level and added rolled oats.

My southern roots cooking was teacup, dessert spoon, saucer, knob, pinch, smidgen, handful, dollop, and a glob. Although baking is supposed to be a science, by background is far from it. My Blackberry jam cake recipe is over 150yo that I swear weighs 5lb. My aunt made 15 with only a wooden spoon every Christmas. I damn near killed my 28lb lift Kitchen Aid with that recipe.

Lol, that's so cool and I'll bet your muscular aunt did even harder work than that. I like the dried cranberries idea, those are always in our pantry for tossing over our salads. I also thought we might try adding chopped nuts which I enjoy in cookies. We'd better try the recipe out before we start adding to it. Thanks again.