Chocolate pinon cookies

4 servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
1cup(2 sticks) butter
¼cupSugar
1teaspoonVanilla
cupGrated semisweet chocolate
1cupPine nuts, toasted and
Lightly chopped
cupCake flour
½teaspoonSalt
Powered sugar

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

With an electric mixer, in a medium size bowl, cream the butter and sugar. Stir in the vanilla, grated chocolate, and pine nuts. Mix in the flour and salt. Chill the dough.

When ready to bake, roll out the dough, on a floured surface, to a 1/4inch thickness. Cut out the cookies with a 2inch round cookie cutter. Gather the scraps together and reroll the dough to cut out more cookies. Place slightly apart on a nonstick baking sheet.

Bake for 10 minutes, or until the cookies are dry and firm. When cool, dust the cookies with the powdered sugar.

Yield: about 28 to 32

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