Author Notes
These chocolate cookies look like tiny loaves of bread once they come out of the oven but taste heavenly. The recipe is for a small batch because I prefer to make lots of different small batches of cookies. You can easily multiply the ingredients to make bigger batches. —Vera Kern
Ingredients
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1
egg
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1/2 cup
sugar
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1/4
stick (30g) soft butter
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1/2 teaspoon
vanilla
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1/4 cup
high quality cocoa powder
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1/2 cup
all purpose flour
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1/2 teaspoon
baking powder
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1 pinch
salt
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1/2 cup
confectioners' sugar
Directions
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Cream the butter with the sugar with a hand or stand mixer.
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Beat in the egg.
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Add the vanilla.
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Mix the cocoa powder in by hand to prevent a cocoa dusted kitchen. Once the ingredients are mixed, continue with the mixer.
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In a second bowl mix the flour, baking powder and salt.
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Add the flour to the cocoa mixture and mix well until you have an even, very sticky dough.
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Cover bowl with cling wrap and store in the fridge for at least 1 hour.
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Line a baking tray with parchment paper.
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Take the dough of out the fridge and shape small (0.5 inch) balls between your hands.
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Cool the cookies again in the fridge, on the baking tray, for about 15 minutes.
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Preheat oven to 350F/180C.
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Roll each cookie in confectioners' sugar until fully covered.
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Bake for about 13 minutes.
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Let them cool on the tray for a few minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack.
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