Mocha truffle cookies
30 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ½ | cup | Butter or margarine |
| ½ | cup | Semisweet chocolate pieces |
| 1 | tablespoon | Instant coffee crystals |
| ¾ | cup | Granulated sugar |
| ¾ | cup | Packed brown sugar |
| 2 | Eggs | |
| 2 | teaspoons | Vanilla |
| 2 | cups | Flour |
| ⅓ | cup | Unsweeted cocoa powder |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 1 | cup | Semisweet chocolate pieces |
Directions
Melt butter and ½ cup chocolate pieces in large saucepan over low heat. Stir in coffee crystals; cool 5 minutes. Stir in sugars, eggs, and vanilla.
Combine flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt in a mixing bowl. Stir into coffee mixture. Stir in the 1 cup chocolate pieces.
Drop dough by rounded tablespoons 2 inches apart onto lightly greased cookies sheets.
Bake in 350deg oven 10 minutes. Cool on cookie sheet 1 minute.
Remove; cool on wire rack. makes 30.
Charlotte's note: LIGHTLY GREASED cookie sheets! Source: Christmas cookies 1994 (Better Homes and Gardens) typos by Charlotte Welch
Submitted By CHARLOTTE WELCH On 10-31-94