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Readers can imagine me making these cookies in the kitchen I describe in “Home.”
My mother gave me this recipe. It would have been popular in the 1940’s, but it is still popular today. These cookies are crisp, chocolatey, and are perfect for pressing with cookie cutters. I often make a forest scene, with spruce trees, moose, bears, and stars. The cinnamon and coffee make a surprising, Christmassy taste.
Ingredients:
1/2 c butter
1/2 c. sugar (originally called for 1 cup, but I always halve the sugar)
2 sq. Bakers chocolate, melted
1 Egg
2 1/2 c. white flour
1/4 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
2 T. cold strong coffee
Directions
Preheat oven to 375F.
Melt chocolate. Beat butter until soft, add sugar. Then add melted chocolate and egg.
In another bowl, mix dry ingredients. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Add the coffee. Dough should be as soft as it can be handled.
Chill, roll thin. Cut with cookie cutters.
Bake at 375 for 8 minutes.
Nada’s Tips & Tricks: The adults love the coffee, and the kids love the chocolate – win, win! Get the kids/grandkids involved and get them decorating their own cookies – great activity for those blustery days.
Contents and images used with permission by Beth Powning. https://www.powning.com/
