Chocolate Chocolate Cookies

Here's the basic recipe:
1 1/2 cups softened margarine
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
2/3 cup cocoa
2 1/2 cups flour
2 cups chocolate chips

And of course some variations:
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans with 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
use mint chocolate chips instead of semi sweet
use 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips and 1/2 cup Skor toffee bits (and just a little extra flour)
white chocolate chips add some variety
half peanut butter chips/half chocolate chips

Then put it in the mixer with your sugar (white and brown) Brown sugar helps keep the finished cookies soft. If you don't have any brown sugar, just use 2 cups of white, but I promise they won't be as good. It's worth a trip to the store.

Cream the sugar and butter really well. Then add your eggs, vanilla, baking powder and baking soda and mix it some more.

It's going to stick right up the sides of your mixer, so add your cocoa, then scrape the sides down. Then your cocoa won't poof up and make a bitter icky chocolate mess all over the place.

Wait... don't mix it yet. Add your flour and chocolate chips.

Now go ahead and mix it but only until it's combined. It doesn't take very long.

Preheat oven at 350

Use parchment paper or a Slipmat and spoon the dough onto it.

Bake for about 6~8 minutes or till the cookies look puffy. Do not try to take remove cookies till completely cooled.