Chocolate Charms
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- Yield Makes 40
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, plus more for dusting
- 1/4 teaspoon table salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract (optional)
Directions
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Sift together flour, cocoa, and salt into a bowl.
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Place butter in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on medium speed until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add sugar, and beat about 2 minutes more, until very light in color and fluffy, occasionally scraping down the sides of the bowl with a spatula. Add vanilla, if using. Add flour mixture, and combine on low speed, scraping with spatula if necessary, until flour is just incorporated and dough sticks together when squeezed with fingers. Form dough into a flattened disk; wrap in plastic. Chill until firm, at least 1 hour.
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Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
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Using a spoon, form dough into 1-inch balls; place on prepared baking sheet. Bake until firm, 20 to 25 minutes, rotating halfway through. Cool completely on wire rack. Dust with cocoa powder just before serving.
Cook's Note
Cookies can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature up to 1 week.
WOW! I don't really like shortbread, but I love Chocolate. This recipe is AWESOME! I chilled my dough overnight. It was a little too stiff the next morning so I left it out for about an hour and then used an ice cream scoop to form the cookies! Try it. I also just used the regular attachment with my stand mixer. I had to stop an use the spatula to scrape off the beater a little more, but it still worked.
Sometimes I use a sweetened cocoa powder like Nesquick or Starbucks ( like the type you mix with milk for chocolate milk or hot chocolate) instead of the unsweetened or dutch chocolate.
where is the recipe???
Anyone know of a cocoa powder to use when making these cookies? For the dusting part. Don't love the unsweetened cocoa for the top. Any suggestions?
Also, be sure you're using UNsalted butter. The amount of water in salted butter is less predictable. That doesn't matter much for some recipes, but in cookies or pastry, it can really change the results.
in response to two comments down from here, if your cookies are spreading i have 2 suggestions:
1. make sure your oven is at the right temperature before putting the cookies in.
2. try putting the dough in the fridge for 10 minutes before scooping out the cookies. sometimes if the dough is too warm the butter melts before it has the chance to create the steam necessary for cookies to rise.
@ laur_n: Paddle attachment is used basically for creaming the butter and sugar in all recipes w/c makes use of the creaming method, it is also use to blend ingredients together in some recipes. If your blender is the old fashion one, you can use the whip attachment that comes w/ it, but only use it on a lower speed. A wooden spoon is also a nice tool to blend ingredients together.
I've tried twice to make these cookies, but although they taste delicious, I have not been able to get a batch to look like the photo. Instead of retaining the round shape, they flatten out like snickerdoodles. Any suggestions.....?
Wow! These are up there with one of my favorite cookies! I love shortbread, and these didn't disappoint. Chocolate and shortbread...can't go wrong!! Love this recipe. Very easy to make with delicious reults!
Does anyone know of an alternative to using a "paddle attachment" for the mixer? What does the paddle do? My mixer was my grandmother's from the 70s and doesn't have the fancy attachments. Thanks!
these are one of the best chocolate cookies I have made, so rich and not too sweet, my husband says they are now his favorite
What's the problem with printing out this recipe? Someone is sleeping on the job!
For now, until they fix it, just highlight the recipe and copy and paste into a word document and then you will be able to print it. Hope this helps
Printed out just fine.
BLANK PAGE! CAN NOT PRINT. THANK YOU
Clicking on the PRINT link only brings up a BLANK page!! Please fix this problem, so I can print out a copy of the recipe and photo. Thank you.