Mai forgot to take pictures part 2.
And maybe that's a good thing. Because these cookies looked like they had the plague.
These cookies are essentially a chocolate version of Mexican wedding cookies/Russian tea cakes. You have to put together the dough beforehand because it's so soft. I went a little baking high, so I ended up making the dough right after baking the outrageous chocolate cookies. Once all the ingredients were combined, I wrapped the dough in plastic, rolled it out with a beer bottle, and threw it in the fridge for a couple of days until all of the previous cookies were gone.
After taking the dough out of the fridge, I enlisted Sarah and Megan to make small balls out of chunks of dough. As the comments on Martha's websites said, the dough started melting immediately. Their hands looked like they had been playing with dirt outside. The balls were then rolled in powdered sugar and then set onto cookie sheets.
The cookies were supposed to come out looking cracked; I just didn't expect that the cracks would come out so... odd. In place of nice, narrow lines, the brown areas of my cookies were thick so the white areas came out in patches. Hence, "plagued."
Still, these cookies were delicious. The combination of chocolate+coffee is absolutely addictive. Some of the powdered sugar also ended up getting caramelized, especially on the bottom, giving the cookies some crunch. The cookie is also moist, dense, and extremely chocolate-y.
I would definitely make these again, but maybe in the winter when I have cold, frozen hands so that the dough won't melt in my hands!
recipe from marthastewart.com
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