chocolate lace cookies

Categories: Cake/cookie; Chocolate; Nuts/grains
Yield: 1 servings

Measure	Ingredient
	-Patricia Dwigans fwds07a-
½ cup	Butter
1 tablespoon	Flour
½ cup	Sugar
1 tablespoon	Heavy cream
1 tablespoon	Milk
¾ cup	Ground almonds; 1/2 cup blanched almonds ground in blender
4 ounces	Semisweet chocolate bits
½ ounce	Cocoa butter; to 1-oz, available in drug stores

Preheat oven to 350~. Place butter, flour, sugar, cream and milk in a small pan and heat slowly until butter is melted. Stir in almonds. Grease and flour large baking sheet. Spoon 5 well spaced teaspoons of mixture onto sheet. Bake 8-9 minutes. Cool 1 minute and transfer top side down to paper towels. Repeat baking 5 at a time until all mixture is used. Melt chocolate and cocoa butter, or you can use paraffin, in top of a double boiler and dribble on cooled lace. Chill to harden chocolate.