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Mocha Truffle Cookies

February 11, 2011

Alex has been begging me to make these cookies for a long time.  He made them before and absolutely loved them (he’s a huge mocha fan), so he repeatedly told me I needed to make them.  He didn’t have the recipe every time he said this, though.  Once he finally got the recipe from his mom, he showed it to me over skype so I could quickly type it up while we were home for break.  I haven’t gotten a chance to make them until now..and I blame Alex’s lack of description of them for that delay..they are so good!

 He made it out to be like a chocolate chip cookie with a coffee flavor.  I wasn’t too impressed by that, so I was in no hurry to try them.  When I got the recipe, I saw the dough was more of a chocolate based dough, and that made it a little better.  I was still preoccupied with my ice cream maker, though.

 These are really easy to make and very, very chocolatey!!  I love that in a cookie.  I whipped these up while we heated up some leftovers for dinner.  Once they’ve cooled, they’re hard on the outside, soft on the inside..just like a truffle!

I’m definitely glad I finally made these..and we’ll have to do it again soon!

Mocha Truffle Cookies
yields about 3 1/2 dozen cookies
½ cup butter
½ cup chocolate chips
1 T instant coffee
¾ cup sugar
2 t vanilla
2 cups flour
1/3 cup cocoa
½ t baking powder
¼ t salt
1 cup chocolate chips
¾ cup brown sugar (packed)
2 eggs

In a large saucepan, melt butter with half a cup of chocolate chips.  Remove from heat, stir in coffee, cool for 5 minutes, and then stir in sugars, eggs and vanilla into mixture.  In separate bowl combine flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt.  Stir in coffee mixture into flour.  Add 1 cup choc chips.  Drop by T onto lightly greased pan (I used parchment paper).  Bake at 350º F for 10 minutes.  Cool for 1 minute then remove from pan.

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