Nice and Chewy with a Burst of Chocolate | No Plain Jane's Kitchen

Ingredients

• 2 ½ cups (11.25 ounces) all purpose flour
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ¾ teaspoon baking powder (the original recipe had 1 teaspoon this is my altitude adjustment)
• ½ teaspoon salt (I use fine grained kosher salt but you can use regular table salt)
• 1 ½ cups (10.5 ounces) sugar plus ¼ cup for rolling the dough
• 1/3 cup cocoa powder plus 1 tablespoon for rolling the dough
• 2 tablespoons instant coffee or instant espresso powder (any brand)
• 2 ounces cream cheese cut into 4 pieces (I used the 1/3 less fat or Neufchatel, I tried the low fat and didn’t think it worked out as well. Of course you can use the regular fat cream cheese too)
• 6 tablespoons (3 ounces or ¾ of a stick) unsalted butter melted, not hot but just warm
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 large egg, at room temperature
• 2 tablespoons milk (I used low fat milk)
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract