Name: Chocolate Cookies
Yield: Makes about 5 dozen cookies
Ingredients: Ingredients for basic butter cookies; 1/2 cup Dutch-process unsweetened cocoa powder; 1/2 teaspoon baking soda; 10 1/2 oz fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened), melted and cooled; Garnish: salted roasted pistachios, finely ground; Demerara sugar

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Chocolate Cookies

Active time: 40 min Start to finish: 5 1/4 hr

Recipe information

Yield
Makes about 5 dozen cookies

Ingredients

Ingredients for basic butter cookies

1/2 cup Dutch-process unsweetened cocoa powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

10 1/2 oz fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened), melted and cooled

Garnish: salted roasted pistachios, finely ground; Demerara sugar

Preparation

Step 1
Follow recipe for basic butter cookies, mixing in cocoa, baking soda, and melted chocolate after adding flour (dough will be stiff). Form dough into a 14-inch log (2 inches in diameter) on a sheet of plastic wrap and roll up dough. (Dough will be hard to slice and may crumble.)
Step 2
If garnishing, roll edges of each slice first in pistachios and then in Demerara sugar.

TagsCookie Dessert American Cocoa Chocolate Make Ahead Easy Baking Electric Mixer Winter Gourmet

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