Author Notes
This kind of recipe's normally made with just chocolate, and maybe a little peppermint. But that's been done before. It's boring. Delicious, but boring. My recipe's only the former, but definitely not the latter. —Fresh Beats, Fresh Eats
Ingredients
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1 cup
All-Purpose Flour
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1 teaspoon
Baking Powder
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1/2 cup
Cocoa Powder
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1/4 teaspoon
Salt
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3/4 cup
Sugar
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1/3 cup
Vegetable Oil
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2
Eggs
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1 teaspoon
Vanilla Extract
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1/4 teaspoon
Espresso Powder
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1/2 cup
Powdered Sugar
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4 tablespoons
Grapefruit Zest
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3
Star Anise Pods
Directions
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Grind the star anise with a mortal and pestle or a spice grinder. Make sure you REALLY grind the pods, you don't want any pieces sticking out of your cookies.
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Put the ground anise in a bowl with the flour, cocoa, salt, espresso powder, and baking powder, and whisk it all together.
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Mix the vegetable oil and sugar (just the regular sugar, not the powdered sugar, that's for later) for a couple of minutes in a stand mixer.
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Add the eggs, vanilla, and grapefruit zest, and mix in with the sugar/oil until combined.
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Next, add all your dry ingredients and mix together with the wet stuff, then refrigerate the dough overnight.
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Preheat your oven to 350.
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Put your powdered sugar into a bowl. Roll your dough into inch-wide balls, then roll them in the powdered sugar. Make sure you get a LOT of powdered sugar on the cookies, you don't want any black parts showing.
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Put the cookies on a baking sheet with parchment paper, stick them in the oven for 10 minutes, let them cool for 5 minutes, then put them on a cooling rack.
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EAT.
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