chocolate truffle cookies

These cookies are so loaded with rich chocolatey goodness that i just had to make them for the holidays. Loaded with baking chocolate, cocoa powder, melted semisweet chocolate, and chocolate chips, these cookies are a chocolate lovers dream and end up tasting like the perfect rich dark chocolate truffle.

Chocolate Truffle Cookies

special materials:

• 1qt heavy saucepan


• stove


• electric mixer


• something to roll them on (very messy)


• refridgerator

ingredients:

• 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped


• 3/4 stick unsalted butter cut into small peices


• 2 cups (12oz) semisweet chocolate chips


• 1/2 cup all purpose flour


• 2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder


• 1/4 tsp baking powder


• 1/2 tsp salt


• 1 cup sugar


• 3 large eggs


• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

How to make:

1. melt unsweetened chocolate, butter, and 1 cup chocolate chips in the saucepan over low heat, stirring occcasionally


2. cool


3. beat together sugar, eggs, and vanilla in a large bowl with electric mixer on medium until pale and frothy (2mins)


4. mix in melted chocolate


5. mix in flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt at low speed until well combined


6. stir in remaining chocolate chips


7. refridgerate covered until dough is firm (2 hrs)


8. preheat oven to 35o


9. with dampened hands (necessary- you will be dampening your hands repeatedly) roll heaping teaspoons of dough into 1 inch balls


10. arrange 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets (they dont spread much but do a little)


11. bake until puffed and set (it's words, not mine) 10-12 mins.


12. cool on baking sheet on a rack for 10 mins, then transfer to racks to cool completely