Preheat your oven to 325° F.
Line your cookie pans with a silicone mat or parchment paper to make cleanup so much easier.
Using a mixer (hand or stand) combine egg and vanilla.
Mix it for a minute on medium.
Then stop, and add in, the butter and the brown sugar and cinnamon.
Next add in baking soda and flour, cup by cup, black pepper, plus cayenne and chili pepper.
Following with coco (either packets or Abuelita brand cocoa) packets.
Next, add in the unsweetened dutch cocoa.
Once this is all combined FOLD in the chocolate pieces by hand,
create your sugar bowl mixture, and get ready to coat balls
Using a cookie scoop (at least I did) create one 1" balls and then roll them through the sugar, which coats all sides.
Place them on your baking pan.
Bake only until you see cracks in your cookies, that is the distinct way to know these are DONE.
(Chocolate cookies can be everyone's kryptonite, lol).
Pull them out of the oven, and give them a good BANG against your counter this will let them further crack and slightly flatten.
Then let the cookies COOL completely before moving to a cooling rack (about 10 minutes)
Enjoy. ~ Dana XO