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    Chocolate Pepper Cookies


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    List of Ingredients




    6 oz unsweetened chocolate
    2 cups + 2 Tbsp all purpose flour
    1 Tbsp ground cinnamon
    2 tsp baking powder
    1 tsp salt
    1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
    1/4 tsp ground cloves
    1 3/4 cups sugar
    1/2 cup (1 stick) margarine or butter at room temperature
    3 large eggs
    1 tsp vanilla
    2/3 cup powered sugar
    50-60 cherry halves or almond slivers

    Recipe



    Chop chocolate and melt in top of double boiler until smooth. Cool.
    Combine flour and next five ingredients in medium bowl. Using
    electric mixer, beat 1 3/4 cups sugar and margarine in large bowl
    until light. Beat in eggs, one at a time, then vanilla and chocolate.
    Gradually add dry ingredients, mixing until combined. Chill dough
    until firm, about 2 hrs in refrigerator, 1 hr in freezer. Preheat
    oven to 350. But parchment paper on twp cookie sheets. Placed
    powered sugar in shallow pan. Form dough into less than 1 inch
    balls, and roll each in sugar to lightly coat. Arrange cookies on
    baking sheets, spacing 1 1/2 inches apart. Press one cherry half
    into center of each cookie. Bake until cookies puff and crack,
    12-18 minutes. Cool. Cookies will be crisp first day, brownie-like
    second day.
 

 

 

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