Renee's 12 Cookies of Christmas is BACK! Wanted: Your Cookie Recipe!
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Here's my famous Espresso Chocolate Snow-Cap Cookie Recipe!
I HAVE to make these every year, and every year I get a little more creative! My first time making these I used the Martha Stewart recipe, then added my own twists!
Here's what you need:
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 4 teaspoons instant espresso
- 2 teaspoons Bailey's (optional)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 4 tablespoons salted butter I used salted butter - if you prefer not to use it, add a pinch of salt to mixture
- 2/3 cup packed light-brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 4 ounces bittersweet or semisweet or dark chocolate chocolate, melted and cooled
- 1 tablespoon heavy cream
- TONS of Confectioners' sugar, for coating
Directions:
Sift together all the dry ingredients: flour, cocoa, espresso, baking powder, and salt.
With an electric mixer, cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.Then add the egg an mix until well combined; mix in cooled chocolate. With mixer on low, gradually add flour mixture; beat in cream until just combined.
Flatten dough into a disk; wrap in plastic. Freeze until firm, about 45 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Pour confectioners' sugar (about 1/2 cup) into a medium bowl; working in batches, roll balls in sugar two times, letting them sit in sugar between coatings.
Place on prepared baking sheets, 2 inches apart. Bake until cookies have spread and coating is cracked, 12 to 14 minutes; cookies will still be soft to the touch. Cool cookies on a wire rack.
WATCH CAREFULLY - they can over cook very fast!!!!