Twelve Days of Baking - Day 3

Pomegranates are showing up in abundance in the grocery stores here. I bought one the other day just for fun, but I really had no idea what I was going do with it. I'm not very fond of the seeds by themselves, but I figured there must be some recipes out there to try.

Enter Pinterest.

After a quick search, I found cookie recipe that looked promising. It's basically a recipe for a chocolate flavored chocolate chip cookie with the addition of the pomegranate seeds. The combination of sweet from the chocolate and cookie and tart from the pomegranate juice makes for one of the best cookies I've had in a long time.

Double Dark chocolate Pomegranate Cookies

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
3/4 cup cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
2 cups chocolate chips
1 cup pomegranate seeds

Cream butter, shortening, sugars, vanilla, and eggs. Mix dry ingredients. Add to butter mixture and stir to combine. Add chocolate chips and pomegranate seeds. Shape into balls. Bake at 350 degrees for 9-10 minutes.

Notes: This recipe is pretty strait forward. The only thing I changed was after rolling the dough into balls and placing them on the sheet, I stuck 3-4 more seeds on the top. I thought it made the cookies a little prettier.